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Message: [QUOTE="Phil, post: 4588460, member: 66"] The Tennessee numbers are easy to explain. (I'm basing this on research I did several years ago but think it's likely to still apply) The Tennessee athletic department engages in aggressive and creative ticket sales promotions. This includes discounted multi-game packages and offers such as 2 for 1 tickets. In the latter case, I suspect there are boo-hoo take advantage of the two-for-one sale and invite a friend but if the friend doesn't show up it still counts as a ticket sale even though it won't result in a turnstile count. Tennessee use to report both sales and turnstile counts. When I was researching this I found many examples where the ticket sale count exceeded the turnstile count significantly, sometimes by several thousands. I'm not expressing this as a criticism, I commend the athletic department for trying innovative approaches to encourage participation, that their high ported attendance during the regular season is somewhat inflated. The tournament games are run by the NCAA which does not do similar promotions or giveaways, and so the lower number reflect the people willing to pay full freight and show up for postseason games. [/QUOTE]