There are a ton of people who live in MA, NY, NJ and even PA.
They aren't going to drive up a week early to putrid Hartford and drive back home when they can watch it on the HDTV at home. Are you going to pay them their gas, parking, food, and toll money?
Not every student gets tickets. They changed the ticket system years ago and they no longer go to the hardcore fans who actually want to be at the games. They stopped the camping out of tickets and now use a lottery system. That is bogus. If you want the tickets and want to support your team camp out that way the people who actually want to be at the games get the tickets instead of random people just entering the lotto just ot give tickets to a friend who starts selling them.
I have 4 sets of season tickets at XL center including uppers behind the hoop on UConn side. My cousins said it was fairly packed up there. I was sitting in 105 and the UConn end uppers were much more packed than the opposite end. Not full capacity but not barren either.
Louisville is not a blueblood program. They are one of the greatest programs in the country but not blueblood. UCLA, UNC, Kentucky, Indiana, Duke are hte only bluebloods