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Message: [QUOTE="and one, post: 4783464, member: 10475"] What the actual attendance was is a bit of a mystery. Big East Buckets compiled the list Nan reposted. They report 10,299 in attendence with 100% capacity. The game was at the XL Center with a capacity of 16,264.. You report that there were about 6,000 empty seats. If we assume there were 10,299 folks that were in seats and 6,000 empty seats, that adds up to The XL's capacity. So far, so good. Since it was reported 100% capacity then all those 6,000 empty must have been sold, which seems doubtful but who knows. Then there is this: The capacity of Gamble, per Wiki is....10,299. Sound familiar? The only thing I can conclude is that some slacker at Big East Buckets wanted to give the attendence for the UConn game, had no idea what it was, assumed the game was at Gamble and being Uconn that it would be a full house and so checked Gample's capacity on the Internet and plugged that number in. I'm open to less harsh scenarios as to how that 10,299 number showed up. To your point that 9,000 to 10,000 or so is a great crowd, that's so true and the envy of most women's BB teams. It's just that I always assume UConn has enough followers to sell out games and when they don't am disappointed and worry the fan base is deserting. Unrealistic for sure. [/QUOTE]