New Year's Eve - Villanova at Butler 7:30pm ET FS1

[daytondawgs]

If we were talking about conference games, then Butler gets a big fat zero in th 90% filled column.

The first conference game is on Weds. Over 9000 tickets sold. How is that zero?

If you show up on Wednesday, you'll be REAL lonely. Even more lonely than usual, I mean.

The figure discussed on this site just yesterday was "2000 tickets left". That's not 90%, yet, and I'm betting it probably won't get there.

And yes, I live in Evansville, but lived in Indianapolis until a few years ago. Been to a whole lot of games at Hinkle with 5000 or less in the 90s and 00s. Better Butler teams have helped attendance, but Butler will never sell out even a small-ish arena like CU does.

Cool Story. Irrelevant.

[NewBigEastConf]

The explanation is quite simple really. Along with Providence College Butler University is the smallest University in the Big East by far. Most of the schools have FOUR TIMES the student body Butler has each year. Butler is also operating in the very heart of Big Ten country where these schools produce 40,000-50,000 alumni every single year. Indiana University is one hour south of Hinkle. Purdue University is one hour north. DePaul produces 14,000 more alumni each year than Butler. Esoterically Butler also suffers from a remarkable "brain drain." Because Hoosiers are inherently intellectually superior to people from other states in the country we often times have to leave the blessed state of Indiana to find these lesser people in mass so that we might make a reasonable living off them. Hoosiers have historically relocated in droves to Milwaukee, Chicago, Philadelphia, Omaha, Cincinnati, Washington D.C., New Jersey, Providence and New York City. Hoosiers and Butler grads specifically have made incredible amounts of money in these locations toying with the vapid nature of their inhabitants.
As far as distractions for Butler grads in Indianapolis there are the obvious ones like the Pacers and the Colts but dig deeper and you will find that Butler has more Mensa members than any other organization or school operating today. The same goes for TNS membership. Meetings often times reach far into the evening where members discuss solutions for World Peace and how to effectively mine for Bitcoin. Bulldog graduates are also very amorous beings and regularly are cited as having scores of different beautiful members of the opposite sex beg them to "stay in" and make love to them one more time instead of attending the Villanova game.
Other than the aforementioned I have no idea why Creighton is a better draw than Butler. I might suggest to Creighton Man that he needs to be thankful and humble about the excitement surrounding his school's basketball program instead of attacking other school's members because there are potentially 500 fewer attendees than he thinks there should be.

[Irishdawg]

I agree. If I were a fan of CU, MU or any other program that sells out an arena the way they do, they should be proud of themselves. I would be too. Butler's not there in terms of fan support. There are many reasons for that, and I sincerely hope that the program can get there.

I'm thankful that Butler is in the Big East and hopefully they can make their fellow conference members proud that they belong to the same conference.

The game itself is going to be interesting. Villanova throws a lot of pressure at teams and Butler has not dealt with a press well up to this point in the season. Also, Nova takes 46.8% of their FG attempts from 3 (ranked 5th in the nation in this category). They haven't shot it that well from deep during the year, but it helps open up space on the interior for their bigs. If Butler hopes to win, they'll need to take care of the ball and can't let Villanova go off from deep or they're really going to be in trouble. Butler's margin for error just isn't as great as Nova's.

[daytondawgs]

Butler's margin for error just isn't as great as Nova's.

This. Butler will have to play one of their better/best games to knock off Nova. I think the one of the biggest focuses for Butler will have to be on rebounding and limiting the number/chances at 3pt shots nova gets. Biggest fear going into the game has got to be dealing with defensive pressure - certainly not Butler's strength thus far (to say the least).

Should be a fun one.
Go Dawgs

[HoosierPal]

OK, I just went on line and saw that there are thousands of tickets available for Georgetown v DePaul. Place looked to be no more than 2/3 full, as of this afternoon. Looks like one of the marquee teams can't draw well on NYE either. Fair is fair. If you want to pick on Butler, include Georgetown in the conversation.

[NJRedman]

OK, I just went on line and saw that there are thousands of tickets available for Georgetown v DePaul. Place looked to be no more than 2/3 full, as of this afternoon. Looks like one of the marquee teams can't draw well on NYE either. Fair is fair. If you want to pick on Butler, include Georgetown in the conversation.

Is Georgetown playing a top ten team or a perennial bottom dweller?

[daytondawgs]

OK, I just went on line and saw that there are thousands of tickets available for Georgetown v DePaul. Place looked to be no more than 2/3 full, as of this afternoon. Looks like one of the marquee teams can't draw well on NYE either. Fair is fair. If you want to pick on Butler, include Georgetown in the conversation.

Or lets not. Talk about the game.

[#hinklemagic]

Was told by a member of the AD staff yesterday that sales were at 9,000, so they are expecting close to (if not) a sellout. Some other conference games are very close to sellouts now, so you have to believe that New Year's Eve plans are truly to blame. 7:30 PM on NYE is a tough time to draw a crowd beyond the normal fan base, not to mention ALOT of folks head somewhere warm between Christmas and New Years.

[SJUREDMEN85]

hahahaha What happened to everyone getting along like earlier in the year?
Guess it`s conference time.

Look at the name of the thread: Villanova at Butler. Yet it`s Butler fans against Creighton fans, one SJU fans and someone from Evansville.
lol it`s to funny but entertaining.

[hoyahooligan]

OK, I just went on line and saw that there are thousands of tickets available for Georgetown v DePaul. Place looked to be no more than 2/3 full, as of this afternoon. Looks like one of the marquee teams can't draw well on NYE either. Fair is fair. If you want to pick on Butler, include Georgetown in the conversation.

a 2/3rds full Verizon Center would be 13,734 people. That would be a pretty darn good turnout for DePaul and 4,734 more people than Butler is expecting. And no one is claiming Georgetown is some attendance beast. We're not.