The Holy Land of Hoops

Needs to improve

Discuss....

Are you planning to buy all of the tickets and handing them out for free on the streets of Manhattan? Because that might help.

Hot take there.

For what game? I was there last night and the crowd was good... I was also at their game vs St Mary's at Carnesecca and was surprised... I know it's a smaller gym, but that place was full and they were into it.

Attendance looked good last night on tv, but did they have the top covered? And nova usually draws 12k for their games against the johnnies, and that is when the johnnies have stunk because nova draws well in nyc.

If seton hall is pulling 10k per game, I expect the johnnies to do as well when they are ranked.

Johnnies should be putting 12k in msg for games this year. My biggest concern about the big east is johnnies getting their support up, and I was disappointed with the attendance last night.

Agree that Villanova usually pulls a big crowd in The Garden. Lots of alums. In NY/NJ. I think it was a mistake to play this game at 9:00. Too late for folks in Philly to come up for the game and to get back home at a reasonable time on a weekday night. Philly is close enough that they should be able to count on them contributing some fans to the game. An earlier start time would definitely have helped.

Having said that, 8500 is not a bad night. It would be a sell out at Cameron Indoor. It would be close to a sell out at Gampel on the UCONN campus. And those are both big time programs.

8500 is a solid crowd for college basketball and 9pm starts are just asking for weak crowds but you don't have to be a genius to understand 9pm is for tv and they're calling the shots.

It's New York City. You are not filling the Garden for St. John's / Nova on a cold Tuesday night for a 9:15 tip. Nova / Johnnies usually gets around 11 or 12k on a weekend game so the attendance really was not too bad.

I commented on the gate in another thread. I understand the upper tier may have been closed and or the late start hurt, no doubt, but the upper tier likely would have been opened itf demand was there. I don't know, 8500 for a ranked Saint Johns at MSG vs a highly ranked Nova seems really really weak to me. i suppose 15k on a tues night at 9pm is asking too much, but they can't draw over 10 for that matchup?

R Jay wrote:Are you planning to buy all of the tickets and handing them out for free on the streets of Manhattan? Because that might help.

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