Tag: empty stadiums
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…
NCAA Football 2018 Attendance, Week 13: Rivalry Week and FCS Playoffs
Week thirteen kicks off the FCS playoffs – even if the crowds aren’t too interested yet – and perhaps is better known as being Rivalry Week. With that, overall attendance was at 34,000 flat, which is a huge improvement over previous weeks, buoyed by most FCS teams not playing a game and coupled with the…
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…
NCAA Football 2018 Attendance, Week 12: MAC West Champions, Even if Fans Didn’t See
Week twelve brings us in closer to rivalry week where attendance should peak, but even despite interesting scheduling by the SEC, attendance was up to 26,528, a gain of over 2,000 fans over last week. Even with that, we still had an FCS game below a thousand fans and an FBS Division winner playing in…
NCAA Football 2018 Attendance, Week 11: Big Ten, Little Crowd
Week eleven was marked by cold weather nationwide, but with it attendance found a way to rise 355 fans to an average of 24,350 last week. Even still, it was a story of “haves” and “have nots” with an FCS game below a thousand fans, a FBS game with fewer than 6,000. And best of…
NCAA Football 2018 Attendance, Week 10: Sub-500 see FCS Football Game
Week ten gave us a great slate of football games, so it’s no surprise that overall attendance was up to 23,995, a gain of 855 fans per game last week. Despite this, we had a new low for the season with only 468 in attendance as a Division III squad hosted an FCS team. Let’s…
NCAA Football 2018 Attendance, Week 9: KU Wins But Nobody Saw It
Weeks seven and eight have passed, and it’s time for another attendance update. With cooler weather across the nation, plenty of fans were willing to go to football games, except at Miami of Ohio, who recorded the lowest attended FBS game of the year with merely 5,003 in attendance. For the rest of D1 Football,…
NCAA Football 2018 Attendance, Weeks 7 & 8: The Lowest Attended FBS Game of the Year
Weeks seven and eight have passed, and it’s time for another attendance update. With cooler weather across the nation, plenty of fans were willing to go to football games, except at Miami of Ohio, who recorded the lowest attended FBS game of the year with merely 5,003 in attendance. For the rest of D1 Football,…
NCAA Football 2018 Attendance, Week 6: Rose Bowl Half Empty or Half Full?
It was week six, and some programs fans have already had enough. Most surprisingly, UCLA only filled the Rose Bowl half full (or is it half empty?). Granted, it’s one of the bigger stadiums in college football, but sitting in the second largest city in America it has typically sat 60+% full. For the rest…
NCAA Football 2018 Attendance, Week 5: Disappointing Homecoming in Lawrence
We’re into the swing of things here through week five, with plenty of good games on the slate. Even with that, average attendance was 26,365 for the week, a decrease of 1,828 over last week and the lowest attended week of the season thus far. Let’s take a look, shall we? Worst overall Division I…
MLB 2018 Ejections, Attendance & Weather – Week of 10/1: Season Finale
The regular season has come to an end, and with it goes Below the Box Score. We’ll have a full season recap for you soon, but first, a look at the last week of the regular season (ignoring both Game 163s here, which will surely be sellouts, right?). With the AAA playoffs being the only…
NCAA Football 2018 Attendance, Week 4: Duke Only Fills Cameron
Week four of the NCAA Football season finally felt like things were in full swing, as no games were cancelled due to hurricanes, and plenty of conference play started up. Average attendance was 28,193 for the week, a decrease of 1,374 over last week and the lowest attended week of the season thus far. Let’s…