Average Basketball Attendance 2015-16

[B1GOSU]

http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/m_basketball_RB/Reports/attend/2016.pdf

At #40 overall, if UConn were in the B1G, it would have ranked 12th in average attendance for men's basketball. This really surprised me, as I thought UConn would have been near the top in average attendance.

5. Maryland - 17,863 (1)
6. Wisconsin - 17,287 (2)
7. Indiana 17,106 (3)
11. Nebraska 15,429 (4)
13. Michigan State 14,797 (5)
19. Iowa 13,835 (6)
20. Purdue 13,662 (7)
27. Illinois 12,723 (8)
28. Ohio State 12,283 (9)
33. Michigan 11,611 (10)
38. Minnesota 10,706 (11)
40. UConn 10,413
72. Northwestern 6,913 (12)
73. Penn State 6,909 (13)
NR. Rutgers 4,653 (14)


For comparison...

Maryland’s women’s team (5,229) averaged almost 600 more a game than Rutgers’ men’s team (4,653).




Conference Average Attendance:
1. Big Ten - 12,555
2. Southeastern - 11,144
3. Atlantic Coast - 11,131
4. Big 12 - 10,124
5. Big East - 9,595
6. Pacific-12 - 7,731
7. Mountain West - 7,162
8. American Athletic - 6,250

 

[B1GOSU]

http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/w_basketball_RB/reports/Attend/2016.pdf

UConn would have been #1 in the B1G for Women's Basketball, at #5 in the nation.

5. UConn 8,920
7. Michigan State 6,561 (1)
10. Purdue 6,253 (2)
12. Nebraska 5,404 (3)
14. Ohio State 5,239 (4)
15. Maryland 5,229 (5)
20. Iowa 4,688 (6)
25. Wisconsin 4,026 (7)
30. Minnesota 3,528 (8)
31. Penn State 3,505 (9)
38. Indiana 2,894 (10)
NR. Rutgers 2,058 (11)
NR. Michigan 2,043 (12)
NR. Illinois 1,585 (13)
NR. Northwestern 1,292 (14)


Conference Average Attendance:
1. Southeastern - 4,758
2. Big 12 - 4,212
3. Big Ten - 3,881
4. Atlantic Coast - 2,822
5. Pac-12 - 2,119
6. American Athletic - 1,988
7. Mountain West - 1,622
8. Conference USA - 1,468

 

[HuskyHawk]

Arena is too small.

 

[Brochacho]

Attendance is down compared to those teams because of poor performance, lack of quality opponents, and the lower capacity of Gampel.

 

[Duncan Idaho]

Why, would you be surprised? with the conference schedule and splitting homes dates ? We are in a very tough place. Its not the Big East anymore.

 

[HuskyBandDad]

Arena is too small.

Exactly. If we sold out every game we be below a lot of teams

 

[sportsart]

This is why we are not getting any P5 invites.

 

[gampelcrazies]

Is this a big drop from when we were in the big east? XL never really sold out in the big east unless it was a big game and Gampel only holds a little over 10,000.

 

[UConn Dan]

Apples and oranges bro

 

[nadav]

Duke would also rank 12th in the B1G

 

[CL82]

This is why we are not getting any P5 invites.

No, no it's not.

 

[Stainmaster]

Hey buddy,

Ohio State vs. Connecticut - Game Recap - December 12, 2015 - ESPN

 

[sportsart]

No, no it's not.

I really didn't expect you to be the one to cause me to say "We have a winner, no more calls please"

 

[Dream Jobbed 2.0]

At best we could average around 12000 per game. If 10 and change surprises you you don't understand our arenas' capacity and the fact we have home games against some awful teams.

 

[amory]

We're not going to have attendance numbers near the top of the B1G while we're playing Tulane and ECU. Just not going to happen.

 

[businesslawyer]

Just to remind people, though, while the Gampel size issue has long been with us, in the 90s and early 2000s you couldn't get single game UConn tickets to the Civic Center. You had season tickets or you stayed at home.

 

[upstater]

Attendance is down compared to those teams because of poor performance, lack of quality opponents, and the lower capacity of Gampel.

Poor performance? But, most of the other teams don't have as good a performance? Unless you mean poor for UConn. But that's not really an excuse.

I really think it is because of the conference opponents at Hartford. It used to be that UConn used its Gampel advantage for certain Big East teams, while also holding marquee games at the XL, but now most of the good games are at Gampel.

Then again, I believe UConn is down from 13k in its heyday, and 12k from the 2000s (though I could be wrong).

 

[jibsey]

Our conference quality games are SMU and Cincinatti. In the OBE Cincy was a crap game compared to the big boys, SMU we wouldn't play. It's a miracle we get what we get.

 

[Dream Jobbed 2.0]

Our conference quality games are SMU and Cincinatti. In the OBE Cincy was a crap game compared to the big boys, SMU we wouldn't play. It's a miracle we get what we get.

A MEN to the last part. Feel more so that way about football. People say we have one of the worst programs in the country. Do the other worst teams in the country still draw 28k fans? If the team was as bad as everyone makes it out to be it should be a miracle we crack 20k.

 

[UConnNick]

A MEN to the last part. Feel more so that way about football. People say we have one of the worst programs in the country. Do the other worst teams in the country still draw 28k fans? If the team was as bad as everyone makes it out to be it should be a miracle we crack 20k.

If you want to feel better about our FB attendance, take a look at schools like Eastern Michigan, where an intimate gathering of friends and family members show up for their home games. Even Houston during the Kevin Kolb/Case Keenum eras was lucky to get 20k per game, and they had very good, exciting teams for several seasons in C-USA. That was their problem. A steady diet of home conference games vs UCF, USF, Tulane and East Carolina doesn't move the needle. At 28k we are doing better than UH did during some of those seasons, and they had a far better product on the field.

 

[Slasher]

AAC Averages:
1. Memphis - 12,028
2. UConn - 10,413
3. Cincinnati - 9,415
4. SMU - 6,907
5. Temple - 6,373
6. Tulsa - 4,745
7. UCF - 4,513
8. East Carolina - 4,444
9. Houston - 3,705
10. USF - 3,098
11. Tulane - 1,799

 

[Dream Jobbed 2.0]

Memphis attendance wayyyyyy down after a couple bad years. Shows you just how fickle the current frenzy over their football team is. Even with Memphis's world renowned ability to inflate attendance they only filled 66% of their seats. Maybe they should donate unsold tickets to the children's museum.

 

[IMind]

It's a function of the times we live in and arena size. Villanova just won the national title and was ranked in the top 10 most of the year... they averaged 8112. So I wouldn't read to much into it. We still do very well... that being said... Gampel is too small.

 

[freescooter]

The conference is a problem for sure and it's even worse because we have zero history with anyone except marginally Temple. Throw in craptastic non conference games, the Texas Suuthern- New Hampshire types weren't too damaging when we played traditional rivals in conference but they don't draw flys and neither do Tulane et al.

On the football side I think if we are any good we'll draw pretty well. The home schedule is interesting which is what draws fans. If the team is solid who wouldn't want to see them go 3-0 in the ACC.

 

[Dooley]

Let's call a spade a spade here - the games on the schedule that I get most pumped up for are out of conference games. We've played some good, entertaining games against Cincinnati over the years but I still view them as 'meh' in comparison with the games we used to play (Syracuse, Nova, Georgetown, Pitt, ND...). I will never warm up to playing against Memphis, SMU, or Houston no matter how high they are ranked (if ranked). I am most excited about our game at MSG against the Fruit more than any game on our schedule and it's not close. I will end up paying hundreds of dollars to go to that single game but would not consider buying season tickets at either venue if it was the same or comparable price.

Like others on this thread have already said, the fact that we are still selling out games here and there is an absolute testament to the strength of UConn fans. UConn fans turned Orlando into "UConn Deep South" for the AAC tourney. No school came close to bringing the thousands of fans UConn did to the conference tournament. To be quite honest, I was shocked to see the Orlando arena with 90% UConn support. We are quite clearly a big fish swimming in a very very tiny puddle.