Tag: empty arenas
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NCAA Basketball 2018-19 Attendance, Week 4: Back on Campus
With the neutral sites behind us, attendance was up almost 40% as teams returned to campus. Traditionally these few weeks signify a bit of a dead cat bounce in NCAA Basketball Attendance before the plummet after final exams in mid-December. That said, with our lowest attended game still over 300 fans, this week was nothing…
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NCAA Basketball 2018-19 Attendance, Week 3: Fifty Fans For D1 vs D1!
Thanksgiving week was upon us, and it was the second week of neutral site tournaments. After a mild first week, the Thanksgiving week neutral site games blew everything out of the water, including the second lowest attended NCAA Basketball game we’ve ever had since we started tracking attendance in 2014, and the lowest attended game…
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NCAA Basketball 2018-19 Attendance, Week 2:
The second week of college basketball brings with it plenty of neutral site tournaments, many of the lower ones played on random campuses sprinkled throughout the nation. That’s one of the reasons we saw so many games below 500 in attendance, so let’s get into it right now: Number of games drawing fewer than 1,000…
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NCAA Basketball 2018-19 Attendance, Week 1: The Journey Begins!
College basketball is back, and with it we bring you our weekly update on attendance. As in most years, the first week of the season does fairly well, with all 353 Division I teams holding on to their dreams of winning (or maybe just making) the NCAA Tournament. Let’s begin our journey through NCAA Basketball’s…
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NCAA Basketball Attendance, 2017 Week 5: D-3 Disasters and NAIA Nightmares
Filling up the out of conference schedule proves itself to be a challenge for the lower levels of Division 1 basketball teams. With a desire to host a few out of conference games, many schools turn to lower level teams to fill the seats. Unfortunately, for our teams this week, that strategy didn’t pay off.…
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NCAA Basketball Week 16: Nobody in South Carolina Watches Basketball
South Carolina Upstate has the smallest arena in NCAA Division I men’s basketball with a capacity of 878. But this week’s bottom three attendance doesn’t involve the Spartans of USC-U, who drew 517 and 837 to their two games this week. With those totals, South Carolina Upstate outdrew two other South Carolina schools, whose game attendances would’ve…
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NCAA Basketball Weeks 1-3 Attendance In Review: Two Sub-100 Games Already!
The college basketball season has begun, and with it brings plenty of random tournaments nationwide. Some of these, like the Maui Invitational, bring the best teams together and have no problem selling out. Others, well… we’ll get to those. Let’s take a look: Number of games drawing fewer than 1,000 fans: 89 (Season total: 89) Here…