The Holy Land of Hoops

Attendance numbers for last season:

6. Creighton 17 289,808 17,048
22. Marquette 17 232,161 13,657
42. Xavier 16 159,974 9,998
44. Villanova 16 154,219 9,639
45. Georgetown 16 154,076 9,630
52. Providence 17 146,444 8,614
63. Seton Hall 15 113,804 7,587
65. St. John's (NY) 21 156,732 7,463
66. Butler 16 117,970 7,373
83. DePaul 16 99,805 6,238

By Conference
1. Big Ten 14 250 3,195,137 12,781 -753
2. Atlantic Coast 15 270 3,069,296 11,368 707
3. Southeastern 14 249 2,693,919 10,819 466
4. Big 12 10 174 1,771,483 10,181 -308
5. Big East 10 172 1,694,688 9,853 142
6. Pac-12 12 210 1,559,382 7,426 -120
7. Mountain West 11 179 1,316,788 7,356 -374
8. American 11 198 1,244,316 6,284 -2,492

http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/m_basketball_RB/Reports/attend/2015.pdf

We will probably continue struggling with attendance for the rest of eternity. Butler isn't a terribly sexy brand of basketball, and, if the two Final Fours and the massive renovation don't get Indy excited, nothing will.

I am surprised Georgetown pulled in that much, they're home crowd seems pretty weak.

milksteak wrote:We will probably continue struggling with attendance for the rest of eternity. Butler isn't a terribly sexy brand of basketball, and, if the two Final Fours and the massive renovation don't get Indy excited, nothing will.

Their capacity is 9k. You can't put more people in a building than it fits.

Edrick wrote:

milksteak wrote:We will probably continue struggling with attendance for the rest of eternity. Butler isn't a terribly sexy brand of basketball, and, if the two Final Fours and the massive renovation don't get Indy excited, nothing will.

Their capacity is 9k. You can't put more people in a building than it fits.

Attendance was 7300, still plenty of seats available.

Our #'s are a little skewed because we split between Carnesecca and MSG. Carnesecca has a very small # of seats

yes and no. Part of it is having 11 OOC home games. While yes, you have some games at MSG that didn't help much at all either. Gonzaga only drew 5,548. Minnesota only 5,128. Also it doesn't matter where you play games like NJIT, Franklin Pearce, LIU, Niagara, Fairleigh Dickinson- you wouldn't draw much for those games even if they were at MSG. Fordham game was at MSG and only got 8074. Only drew 8565 for Villanova, 7532 for Marquette, and 8973 for Providence and 6634 for Xavier. Part of it is scheduling 3 conference games at Carnesecca- but the 6 conference games at MSG only averaged 9346.

Marquettes down about 2,000 due to our recent two years being terrible. We'll probably bump pretty high back up this and next year (hopefully stay that way for another 12 years)

The game in the 3,700 seat Al McGuire Center may have brought ours down slightly. Without it we go from 13,657 to 14,300, wind up at #19 instead of 22. The game was certainly a unique atmosphere, but it sucks that it brought our average down.

The Omaha market sucks. Should have taken St. Louis, or even Dayton. That would have gotten butts in the seats. Indianapolis, DC, NYC, Chicago and St. Louis, that's where our teams need to be if we are ever going to get people to come watch. Omaha? He'll no, not Omaha. They drive tractors to school in Omaha. Indoor plumbing? Nope, not there. I'd go watch a game there but the line to pee in the corn field out back is too long.