Tag: SWACtion
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NCAA Basketball Attendance: 2017 Season, Week 13: Presbyterian Has A Bingo!
Some more variety at the bottom three from a team standpoint, but familiar conferences as the SWAC and Big South have representatives at the bottom of the list this week. Most interestingly, Presbyterian, who has struggled with attendance this year, matched a record from a previous year. And how did everyone else do? Let’s take a look…
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NCAA Basketball Attendance, 2017 Week Eight: An All-Time Record!
In three years, not once have we ever reported a sub-50 attendance game. But a first for all of us this week. The lowest attended NCAA Basketball game since at least 2015. With that, it was no surprise that attendance was down almost 400 people per game. Let’s take a look: Number of games drawing…
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NCAA Football Attendance: 2017 Season, Week 12: SWAC = Stadium Without A Crowd?
Time again for your week in review on NCAA Division I Football attendance. Average attendance was up to 26,460 this week, one of the highest levels of the season. Despite that, three of the lowest attended games of the year happened last week: two of them in the SWAC. Let’s take a look, shall we?…
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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…
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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:…
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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…
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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…
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SWAC, CUSA, MEAC, Big Sky Crappy Conference Championship Preview
Editor note: This continues a series of conference tournament previews for the worst conferences in college basketball. Every day we will preview the conference tournaments for the non “Power” conferences that will begin on that day. Today we have the SWAC, Conference USA, MEAC, and Big Sky. With apologies to the former USSR, here is the AMSTS CCCP (Crappy…
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NCAA Basketball Attendance Week 17: The Highs and Lows
As we get closer to Conference and NCAA Tournament time, fan interest is starting to gain even more momentum. Attendance this week was up 4% with average attendance north of 5,000 for the first time this season. In addition, fewer games were played with fewer than 1,000 in attendance this week: Number of games drawing…
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Point Distribution by Conference in NCAA Basketball, or “How Terrible the SWAC is in One Graph”
With the new shot clock rules in the NCAA this season, as expected, scoring has increased dramatically. Everyone knows that. Here are the charts that show it: Similar in distribution, but with a shift of about 10-12%. Given that the shot clock was reduced by 14%, this is what we’d expect. There’s no…
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NCAA Basketball Attendance Week 15: The Highs and Lows
As we inch closer and closer to March, the haves and have-nots begin to separate, and we start to see attendance diverge. This week, as in last week, had quite a few games below 1,000 in attendance, but at the top, quite a few high attendance games have floated the average attendance up almost 6%…
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What is Home Court Advantage Worth in College Basketball?
As the 2015-16 College Basketball season passes its halfway point, it’s worth taking a look at the value of a home game. Various people have done it in the past, but none of it has been updated for 2015-16, and we’ll look at how best to do it. First off, we’ll take every game played…