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Message: [QUOTE="TheFarmFan, post: 4763465, member: 9403"] To me, it's not a coincidence that nearly all of the leading teams by average attendance are in very small media markets without a lot of sports competition. It's one of the reasons folks have speculated about why SEC football is so much better attended than other conferences. The problem for Stanford basketball fans is that many of them live in SF or the East Bay, and if you can see Steph and Dre or Cameron and Haley, the vast majority of basketball fans have a clear preference, and it's also much easier to get to a Dubs game than a WBB game. (Many of our recent seasons have featured regular 6 p.m. Friday tip-offs - you can guess how early you'd need to leave Oakland or SF to be in your seat a 6 p.m. on a Friday, not to mention the near total inability to do it via public transport!) And I say this as a Stanford alum and big Stanford WBB fan - I still only get down to games in Palo Alto 2-3 times a season... [/QUOTE]