Tag: empty stadiums
NCAA Week 11 Attendance: School Is Back In Session, But Some Arenas Still Drawing <5%
School is back in session and with it, attendances have increased to their non-break levels. Overall attendance was up 18% this week, with only two games played with fewer than 300 in the crowd. Even with that, two games played with fewer than 5% of seats occupied this week, our #1 game of the week…
Week 10 NCAA Basketball Attendance: Team Requests Nobody Attend, Still Outdraws 2 Others
Bad weather across parts of the country led to reduced attendance this week, which was particularly evident in that the number of games with fewer than 1,000 fans shot up to 76, nearly double the normal number for the week. With the bad weather, we saw a school request that it’s fans NOT attend the…
Week 9 NCAA Basketball Attendance: Sacred Heart Draws Sub-300 Twice
Sacred Heart is the focal point this week as they drew fewer than 550 fans over two games this week, surprisingly low as the Pioneers had drawn over 500 for most of the season thus far. The other story this week is the continued issues that HBCUs face in getting butts in seats, with two…
NCAA Basketball Attendance Week 8: HBCU Blues
HBCUs seem to be having a tough time drawing a crowd this year. After last week’s Howard fiasco, this week’s leader is Alcorn State with only 124 in attendance. Also, another hoops “classic” that didn’t seem to bring many fans in the door. Let’s take a look: Number of games drawing fewer than 1,000 fans: 35 (Season total:…
Week 7 NCAA Basketball Attendance: Howard Draws Under 500 For The Full Week
Not to be outdone by Southern, who drew fewer than 500 fans in two home games last week, the story of this week is Howard U. The Bison hosted THREE games this week and had exactly 500 fans in attendance. At least that’s what they reported….. Let’s take a look: Number of games drawing fewer…
Week 5 NCAA Basketball Attendance: Holy City Hoops Not-So-Classic, and SWACtion!
Thanksgiving week means a week full of bad ideas. Overeating, taking an accidental four-hour nap on the couch in front of your extended family, discussing politics at the Thanksgiving Day table. But all those ideas are better than one other idea that a lot of college basketball ADs have: Thanksgiving week neutral site tournaments for…
NCAA Championship Week Attendance: SWAC > Sun Belt!
Conference championship week is our penultimate look at college football attendance this season, and with the ticket prices being fairly low for many of the big conference games, it’s no surprise that the American conference championship was outdrawn by the FCS-level SWAC Championship. But what other surprises are in store? Let’s take a look. Worst…
Week 4 NCAA Basketball Attendance: Neutral Site Attendance Hell
Thanksgiving week means a week full of bad ideas. Overeating, taking an accidental four-hour nap on the couch in front of your extended family, discussing politics at the Thanksgiving Day table. But all those ideas are better than one other idea that a lot of college basketball ADs have: Thanksgiving week neutral site tournaments for…
Week 13 College Football Attendance – FCS Outdraws NM State
Another of our weekly looks at NCAA Football Division I attendance this week. So let’s take a look, shall we? Worst overall Division 1 attendance last week: 1,111 – New Mexico State vs Appalachian State on Saturday. Filling out a meager 3.4% of Aggie Memorial Stadium’s capacity, only a handful of people got to see Appalachian…
Week 12 NCAA Football Attendance – Howard, FAU, and Kansas Bring Up The Bottom
Another of our weekly looks at NCAA Football Division I attendance this week. So let’s take a look, shall we? Worst overall Division 1 attendance last week: 1,056 – Howard vs Delaware State on Saturday. Filling out just 15% of the 7,000 seat stadium’s capacity, the Bison of Howard put the final nail in Delaware State 0-11…
Week 11 NCAA Football Attendance
Another of our weekly looks at NCAA Football Division I attendance this week. So let’s take a look, shall we? Worst overall Division 1 attendance last week: 1,012 – Duquesne vs Sacred Heart on Saturday. This should be no surprise, as Arthur J. Rooney Athletic Field only holds 2,200, the smallest stadium hosting a football game this week.…
Week 10 NCAA Football Attendance – A New Season Low!
We’re back again this week, and with it a shocking new season low for Division 1 attendance. In fact, the number is so low it would be in the bottom 1% of college BASKETBALL attendance last year. So let’s take a look, shall we? Worst overall Division 1 attendance last week: 471 – Jacksonville vs Drake on Saturday. Can…