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That is a problem that Fox and the Big East are going to have to sort out in a hurry.
Villanova is a top-five team and probably as close as anything they have to a national program and they still didn't draw.
They're going to have problems then. I remember going to Villanova games in Philly during the Lappas era against UConn when there were probably 2000 people in the arena. Lappas wasn't great but these were 20+ win/NCAA seasons... and it was a ghost town. There's no bigger myth in college basketball than the fan support in Philadelphia. Sure they can manage to fill an arena for a Big 5 game... it's not exactly hard to fill the Palestra though... they are absolutely the worst fair weather fans.