Conference tournaments have started for some mid-majors and that has led to attendance being up over 400 people versus last week. I guess you could say college basketball is… going viral. With apologies to the Coronavirus, and without further ado, let’s take a look: Number of games drawing fewer than 1,000 fans: 28 (Season total: …
Read moreNCAA Basketball 2019-20 Attendance, Week 17: Going Viral
As some conference races heat up, it’s surprising to see average attendance hit 5,000 for the first point this year. Despite that, still 45 games managed to draw three-digit crowds. Without further ado, let’s take a look: Number of games drawing fewer than 1,000 fans: 45 (Season total: 827) Here are the 3 lowest attended …
Read moreNCAA Basketball 2019-20 Attendance, Week 15: Highest Attended Week of the Year
As teams start to eliminate themselves from conference contention, it is no surprise that we have seen a 7% decrease in attendance week over week, including a 33% increase in games with fewer than 1,000 in attendance. Without further ado, let’s take a look: Number of games drawing fewer than 1,000 fans: 46 (Season total: …
Read moreNCAA Basketball 2019-20 Attendance, Week 14: Nobody’s Valentine
Amidst conference play, one would expect that there would be a higher average attendance (and there is) vs non-conference play, but there were still fifty games with fewer than 1,000 fans. Without further ado, let’s take a look: Number of games drawing fewer than 1,000 fans: 39 (Season total: 697) Here are the 3 lowest …
Read moreNCAA Basketball 2019-20 Attendance, Week 12: Low Crowds Nationwide
Amidst conference play, one would expect that there would be a higher average attendance (and there is) vs non-conference play, but there were still fifty games with fewer than 1,000 fans. Without further ado, let’s take a look: Number of games drawing fewer than 1,000 fans: 36 (Season total: 658) Here are the 3 lowest …
Ramping back up the schedule this week with 292 games reporting attendance on the week. Yet again we had 69 games below 1,000 so be sure to make your #Nice comment. As for the rest of the games? Without further ado, let’s take a look: Number of games drawing fewer than 1,000 fans: 69 (Season …
Read moreNCAA Basketball 2019-20 Attendance, Week 8: New SWAC Year, Same SWAC Problems
I just wanted to get this out of the way for all of us. There were 69 games with fewer than 1,000 college basketball fans last week. That brings the season number up to 420 games with fewer than 1,000 in attendance. I wish I were making that up. ANYWAY, elsewhere, average attendance dropped from …
Read moreNCAA Basketball 2019-20 Attendance, Week 6: Funny Numbers
The bottom three attended games this week all came from HBCUs having trouble filling up the home arena during finals week. Elsewhere, average attendance jumped to to 4,772 from 4,452 from a week ago. Without further ado, let’s take a look: Number of games drawing fewer than 1,000 fans: 34 (Season total: 351) Here are …
Read moreNCAA Basketball 2019-20 Attendance, Week 5: HBCU Blues
The last two weeks have had schools out of session and the Christmas holiday, meaning that many games took place in neutral sites. Because of that, we’ve combined weeks seven and eight into one post. But don’t worry, we have a cameo appearance by a major trophy. Without further ado, let’s take a look: Number …
Read moreNCAA Basketball 2018-19 Attendance, Weeks 7 & 8: New Year, New Sub-100 Crowd
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 …
Read moreNCAA Basketball 2018-19 Attendance, Week 4: Back on Campus
Conference tournaments have begun (or in the case of a few, finished) and with it, attendance up to its highest level on the year. We won’t let that stop us from having a bottom three, so let’s get right to it: Number of games drawing fewer than 1,000 fans: 22 (Season total: 724) Here are …
Read moreNCAA Basketball Attendance Week 17: A Game Behind Closed Doors
As we edge closer to conference championship week (or if you’re a Big Ten fan, the bye week), some games are critical in determining seeding for the tournament. On the other hand, quite a few games have very little impact. Most of those games ended up on our list this week. We also hit the …
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