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Think about this one Husky fans. The other day I went to UConnHuskygames.com - thank you TCF - and watched the BC game from 1995 played in Hartford. They said it was the 50th consecutive sell out including 24 in Hartford. Times have certainly changed. When was our last sell out? Those were great days.
 
ucp990411 said:
Think about this one Husky fans. The other day I went to UConnHuskygames.com - thank you TCF - and watched the BC game from 1995 played in Hartford. They said it was the 50th consecutive sell out including 24 in Hartford. Times have certainly changed. When was our last sell out? Those were great days.
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Florida? Tomorrow?
 
ucp990411 said:
Think about this one Husky fans. The other day I went to UConnHuskygames.com - thank you TCF - and watched the BC game from 1995 played in Hartford. They said it was the 50th consecutive sell out including 24 in Hartford. Times have certainly changed. When was our last sell out? Those were great days.
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Attendance has been spotty for a long, long time, both at Gampel and the Civic Center, both in the BE and AAC.
 
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Storrs South said:
Wichita State was last year too. And as @Dream Jobbed 2.0 noted, tomorrow will be as well.

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Yes, we have had the occasional sell out but think about it, 50 consecutive, pretty amazing. And that was with the Whalers still in Hartford. Does anyone know how much attendance is down nationwide in college hoops?
 
ucp990411 said:
Think about this one Husky fans. The other day I went to UConnHuskygames.com - thank you TCF - and watched the BC game from 1995 played in Hartford. They said it was the 50th consecutive sell out including 24 in Hartford. Times have certainly changed. When was our last sell out? Those were great days.
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Was that also our 50th consecutive win over BCU??
 
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Kathy said:
Cost could be a big part of that.
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Cost, people have more things to do, and ease of watching on TV. Considering the team hasn't had a winning record in 4 years and played in a conference no one cares about, it has been fine for UConn. Between Hurley turning it around and going back to the Big East, I am optimistic UConn will see a significant boost in attendance.
 
Storrs South said:
Cost, people have more things to do, and ease of watching on TV. Considering the team hasn't had a winning record in 4 years and played in a conference no one cares about, it has been fine for UConn. Between Hurley turning it around and going back to the Big East, I am optimistic UConn will see a significant boost in attendance.
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Started dropping a lot more than 4 years ago
2003 - 13,239
2005 - 13,771
2008 - 11,887
2011 - 11,569
2014 - 10,134
2015 - 10,687
2017 - 8,505
2019 - 8,052

General trend across most NCAA basketbsll
 
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ucp990411 said:
I was a season ticket holder from 1978 - 2013 and while there may have been some sellouts during Perno's years I would not say it was all the time
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Did you dump the season tickets because of the move to the AAC?
 
Kathy said:
Cost could be a big part of that.
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Tickets have been WAY cheaper recently with the invention of smartphones and I guess Stubhub. I got my cincy tickets for 6 each on hub. Remember my Dad paying a lot of money for tickets in the early 2000's. They were also wayy harder to get.
 
ucp990411 said:
I was a season ticket holder from 1978 - 2013 and while there may have been some sellouts during Perno's years I would not say it was all the time
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I started season tickets the year Corny Thompson and Mike McCay signed with UConn. Then with the Big East came lots of optimism. Chuck Aleksinas transferred from Kentucky and the Big East Tournament was held in Hartford. The fans had high hopes we could win that tournament. However lost in first round to St. John’s.
Perno gave us lots of false starts and it eventually cost him his job. Lost in the Conn Mutual Classic to Northeastern coached by, yes, you guessed it, JimCalhoun. Fans remained very loyal thrilled to be playing Georgetown, Villanova, Syracuse and the rest of the Big East on a national stage. Attendance remainded very good.
Calhoun came along at the perfect time because UCONN was clearly ebbing. He won the NIT and the rest is history.
 
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Storrs South said:
Cost, people have more things to do, and ease of watching on TV. Considering the team hasn't had a winning record in 4 years and played in a conference no one cares about, it has been fine for UConn. Between Hurley turning it around and going back to the Big East, I am optimistic UConn will see a significant boost in attendance.
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This is a non-issue that gets brought up around here, things will be different next season.
 
glastonbury50 said:
Tickets have been WAY cheaper recently with the invention of smartphones and I guess Stubhub. I got my cincy tickets for 6 each on hub. Remember my Dad paying a lot of money for tickets in the early 2000's. They were also wayy harder to get.
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Season tickets aren't cheaper - other ways are cause demand is down. People are now picking and choosing which games to attend. I remember how expensive it was to buy extra tickets for family visiting from New York who wanted to go to the game.
 
I just turned on the Creighton game, was impressed by the crowd, and ended up in a wikipedia rabbit hole on Nebraska attendance for college sporting events. Long story short, they turn out for everything (17,000 for women's volleyball).
 
We better have a sellout. Students pack the place to the rafters. Drown out everything Cincy.like we used to do to G TOWN in the Thompson, Ewing days. Let's show people in this country what real basketball fans act like.
We gotta have a winner and it starts now.
 
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