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I was very surprised to see for the attendance for Sat.'s game/double header in the 5000's. Any reason that Boneyarders would be aware off?
 
Bills Fan said:
I was very surprised to see for the attendance for Sat.'s game/double header in the 5000's. Any reason that Boneyarders would be aware off?
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I suppose part of the reason is that each team is allocated a certain number of tickets and then they are not used.
 
My guess is that many potential attendees read the BY. Thus they know from fellow fans that the game will be terrible. with turnovers, missed free throws, shaky half court offense, their favorite player not starting, and other disappointments too numerous to mention. ;)
 
First round games are almost always poorly attended. It will be much different on Monday.
 
Just saw 14,000 at the Iowa Creighton game. Certainly there were a lot of tickets available for the games at Storrs for UCONN fans. It just seems strange that more UCONN fans weren't there.
 
Bills Fan said:
Just saw 14,000 at the Iowa Creighton game. Certainly there were a lot of tickets available for the games at Storrs for UCONN fans. It just seems strange that more UCONN fans weren't there.
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The NCAA requires that each school be allotted a certain number of tickets. The other schools may not have turned in the unused portion to avoid a huge UConn crowd
 
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Boreifs said:
First round games are almost always poorly attended. It will be much different on Monday.
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We can hope, I will be there, 9PM weeknight start tough for some with children, children attending and work.
 
Iowa ticket prices were $16.00 for Adults and $8.00 for youth. Very reasonable.
 
I was at the game. There were many empty seats that certainly didnt show up as available when buying! Small student section with kids, I believe, still on break. Still, I would have guessed 7-8,000.
 
Bills Fan said:
Just saw 14,000 at the Iowa Creighton game. Certainly there were a lot of tickets available for the games at Storrs for UCONN fans. It just seems strange that more UCONN fans weren't there.
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That was a second round game.
Success is still relatively new to many teams. That builds first-time excitement. Many UConn fans have been through it and don't feel like making the long trip to Storrs. We were at the game yesterday and enjoyed it. There is nothing like watching a game and developing plays live. Looking forward to being there Monday, too.
 
OldAlum said:
I was at the game. There were many empty seats that certainly didnt show up as available when buying! Small student section with kids, I believe, still on break. Still, I would have guessed 7-8,000.
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Reported attendance 5000
 
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FairView said:
That was a second round game.
Success is still relatively new to many teams. That builds first-time excitement. Many UConn fans have been through it and don't feel like making the long trip to Storrs. We were at the game yesterday and enjoyed it. There is nothing like watching a game and developing plays live. Looking forward to being there Monday, too.
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The reported attendance for Friday's Creighton Colorado game 14300. Iowa is a bigger state than CT many of those fans have a longer trip.
 
Nick Pignatello said:
The reported attendance for Friday's Creighton Colorado game 14300. Iowa is a bigger state than CT many of those fans have a longer trip.
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The Iowa arena is in Iowa City: population 171,000 It's in the middle of a major city
Gampel Pavilion is in Storrs: population 15,000 It's in the middle of nowhere
Let's take is a step further: Iowa City is about the same distance to Cedar Rapids as Storrs is to Hartford. The Iowa City-Cedar Rapids region collectively has a population of 500,000.
Additionally, Iowa City is very easy to get around in. Some facts:
In 2009, the Iowa City metropolitan statistical area (MSA) ranked as the seventh highest (tied with Hinesville-Fort Stewart, Georgia MSA) in the United States for percentage of commuters who walked to work (8.2 percent).[51] In 2013, the Iowa City MSA ranked as the sixth lowest in the United States for percentage of workers who commuted by private automobile (73.4 percent). During the same year, 11.1 percent of Iowa City area commuters walked to work.[52]

I don't understand the need people seem to have to criticize the UConn program and fans in any way they can. How many people in this thread were there?

Go Huskies!
 
Bills Fan said:
I was very surprised to see for the attendance for Sat.'s game/double header in the 5000's. Any reason that Boneyarders would be aware off?
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The game was broadcast on ABC, a "free" network.
 
FairView said:
The Iowa arena is in Iowa City: population 171,000 It's in the middle of a major city
Gampel Pavilion is in Storrs: population 15,000 It's in the middle of nowhere
Let's take is a step further: Iowa City is about the same distance to Cedar Rapids as Storrs is to Hartford. The Iowa City-Cedar Rapids region collectively has a population of 500,000.
Additionally, Iowa City is very easy to get around in. Some facts:
In 2009, the Iowa City metropolitan statistical area (MSA) ranked as the seventh highest (tied with Hinesville-Fort Stewart, Georgia MSA) in the United States for percentage of commuters who walked to work (8.2 percent).[51] In 2013, the Iowa City MSA ranked as the sixth lowest in the United States for percentage of workers who commuted by private automobile (73.4 percent). During the same year, 11.1 percent of Iowa City area commuters walked to work.[52]

I don't understand the need people seem to have to criticize the UConn program and fans in any way they can. How many people in this thread were there?

Go Huskies!
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Storrs population 15,000? They must be including the cows :)
 
FairView said:
The Iowa arena is in Iowa City: population 171,000 It's in the middle of a major city
Gampel Pavilion is in Storrs: population 15,000 It's in the middle of nowhere
Let's take is a step further: Iowa City is about the same distance to Cedar Rapids as Storrs is to Hartford. The Iowa City-Cedar Rapids region collectively has a population of 500,000.
Additionally, Iowa City is very easy to get around in. Some facts:
In 2009, the Iowa City metropolitan statistical area (MSA) ranked as the seventh highest (tied with Hinesville-Fort Stewart, Georgia MSA) in the United States for percentage of commuters who walked to work (8.2 percent).[51] In 2013, the Iowa City MSA ranked as the sixth lowest in the United States for percentage of workers who commuted by private automobile (73.4 percent). During the same year, 11.1 percent of Iowa City area commuters walked to work.[52]

I don't understand the need people seem to have to criticize the UConn program and fans in any way they can. How many people in this thread were there?

Go Huskies!
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No town in Connecticut is in the middle of nowhere. Small Connecticut has more citizens than Iowa. Saturday afternoon attendance listed as 5000. I was there.
 
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Bills Fan said:
Just saw 14,000 at the Iowa Creighton game. Certainly there were a lot of tickets available for the games at Storrs for UCONN fans. It just seems strange that more UCONN fans weren't there.
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We also have Bridgeport next week. No game’s a given, i understand,…but many UConn fans already bought Tix for next round and maybe didn’t plan to do both rounds. I was there and will be again tonight.
 
They're giving free student tickets to the game tonight i saw, so that should help fill the place up.
 
Had a granddaughter's softball tournament in New York on Saturday, so our friends enjoyed our tix. We will be at Gampel tonight. Luckily for us, we are retired and can sleep as long as necessary tomorrow. I'm not expecting a full house because of the late start and poor parking situation.
 
Nick Pignatello said:
No town in Connecticut is in the middle of nowhere. Small Connecticut has more citizens than Iowa. Saturday afternoon attendance listed as 5000. I was there.
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This is not necessarily in response to your quote as I was also there and will be there tonight but as my daughter is a student there, she just reported to me that the school has sold 4,000 tickets to students who are returning today from Spring break. That's good but I still fear the 9 PM start time will prevent many of the elder ticket holders from going. I hope I am wrong as I want to see 9,000 screaming fans there. It was a bit disappointing to see UConn ranked as 11th of the 16 host teams in attendance for the 1st round games.

I wonder if pricing, apathy, Spring break all conspire against UConn? While yes, UConn is the top brand in the sport, maybe they do need to rethink the pricing strategy as full houses are preferable to half-full.
 
Bills Fan said:
Just saw 14,000 at the Iowa Creighton game. Certainly there were a lot of tickets available for the games at Storrs for UCONN fans. It just seems strange that more UCONN fans weren't there.
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Actually, there weren't a lot of tickets available. If you went through the athletic department site, your choice of tickets was very limited, a few singles in the lower level corners, and what I estimate would be a few hundred in the courtside upper levels, mainly on the bench seating side.

I've been a donor and a season-ticket holder for 10 years now. I learned never to try and get my tickets through UConn. The NCAA runs the show. It dictates that about 1000 of the best prime seats be reserved for the NCAA, Turner, ESPN, participating teams entourages (family and friends of players, band, cheerleaders, etc.). Then each participating team gets an allocation. Therein lies the rub.

Nobody knows until Sunday night where they're going to be playing (except the top seeds who know that they will be hosting). It used to be worse, used to be Monday night. So the allocation goes to Florida, UCF and Mercer. They are only "required" to purchase 100 lower level seats for the first game, and 100 lower level seats if they move on to the second game. However they get an allocation larger than that. I just finished reading this year's host manual. There's no requirement for unsold tickets to be returned to the host site.

I have spoken with various UConn athletic department administrators about this. The excuse had always been that they couldn't get the physical tickets back in time to inventory them, list them, and put them up for sale. That excuse no longer exists with all being digital.

Anyone who was at the game on Saturday saw that the announced crowd of 5000 was probably inflated. The NCAA manual says that they have to announce the attendance based on ticket sales. That literally means that half the tickets were not sold. Yet they appear on no primary or secondary ticket market.

On the UConn site early this morning they had four tickets available in section 223 and 2 in section 2. Those are now gone. On StubHub, there are a total of 193 tickets available. It will be interesting to see what the announced attendance (officially, tickets sold) will be for tonight.

I don't know where those tickets are, but they aren't available.
 
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DefenseBB said:
This is not necessarily in response to your quote as I was also there and will be there tonight but as my daughter is a student there, she just reported to me that the school has sold 4,000 tickets to students who are returning today from Spring break. That's good but I still fear the 9 PM start time will prevent many of the elder ticket holders from going. I hope I am wrong as I want to see 9,000 screaming fans there. It was a bit disappointing to see UConn ranked as 11th of the 16 host teams in attendance for the 1st round games.

I wonder if pricing, apathy, Spring break all conspire against UConn? While yes, UConn is the top brand in the sport, maybe they do need to rethink the pricing strategy as full houses are preferable to half-full.
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I might be considered elder, but will be going tonight alone. My normal partners will not make it tonight. A 5 hour energy all ready to go.
 
BrianF said:
Actually, there weren't a lot of tickets available. If you went through the athletic department site, your choice of tickets was very limited, a few singles in the lower level corners, and what I estimate would be a few hundred in the courtside upper levels, mainly on the bench seating side.

I've been a donor and a season-ticket holder for 10 years now. I learned never to try and get my tickets through UConn. The NCAA runs the show. It dictates that about 1000 of the best prime seats be reserved for the NCAA, Turner, ESPN, participating teams entourages (family and friends of players, band, cheerleaders, etc.). Then each participating team gets an allocation. Therein lies the rub.

Nobody knows until Sunday night where they're going to be playing (except the top seeds who know that they will be hosting). It used to be worse, used to be Monday night. So the allocation goes to Florida, UCF and Mercer. They are only "required" to purchase 100 lower level seats for the first game, and 100 lower level seats if they move on to the second game. However they get an allocation larger than that. I just finished reading this year's host manual. There's no requirement for unsold tickets to be returned to the host site.

I have spoken with various UConn athletic department administrators about this. The excuse had always been that they couldn't get the physical tickets back in time to inventory them, list them, and put them up for sale. That excuse no longer exists with all being digital.

Anyone who was at the game on Saturday saw that the announced crowd of 5000 was probably inflated. The NCAA manual says that they have to announce the attendance based on ticket sales. That literally means that half the tickets were not sold. Yet they appear on no primary or secondary ticket market.

On the UConn site early this morning they had four tickets available in section 223 and 2 in section 2. Those are now gone. On StubHub, there are a total of 193 tickets available. It will be interesting to see what the announced attendance (officially, tickets sold) will be for tonight.

I don't know where those tickets are, but they aren't available.
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I have 7 for 3 of us
 
FairView said:
That was a second round game.
Success is still relatively new to many teams. That builds first-time excitement. Many UConn fans have been through it and don't feel like making the long trip to Storrs. We were at the game yesterday and enjoyed it. There is nothing like watching a game and developing plays live. Looking forward to being there Monday, too.
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FYI, Iowa's 1st round game vs Illinois State was a sell-out as well. Made it 3 games in a row (season finale vs Michigan was the 1st). Capacity for NCAA games limited by ??? Had 15000 for Michigan game. Looked like some seats near the court were removed to make room for more press. Sad the team's performance didn't quite match that of the fans'.
 
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