South Carolina Leads In Attendance for the Third Straight Year

[Charliebball]

South Carolina tops women’s basketball attendance for 3rd straight season; Washington has largest home attendance increase

 

[LasVegasYank]

Wow! Iowa State?

Good for you guys.

 

[ed4ourgirls]

Iowa St. is always up there. Great fans of WCBB at ISU.

I thought it was interesting that (apart from UConn) UCF was tops in the AAC.
Top 4 schools were UCF (2399), USF (2264), SMU (1973), and Temple (1506).
Worst was Tulsa (447). UConn played at every school except Memphis and
Houston (circus comes to town factor).

 

[triaddukefan]

South Carolina tops women’s basketball attendance for 3rd straight season; Washington has largest home attendance increase

I bet Washington has the largest home attendance decrease next year

 

[Vowelguy]

Not a single pac school in top 10.

 

[Carnac]

South Carolina hasn't had much trouble selling a good number of the 18,000 seats on game day in their home venue, the Colonial Life Arena lately. We can only imagine
that interest and ticket sales will go up, now that the Gamecocks are the defending national champions. After all, everybody loves a winner.

 

[SCspur]

South Carolina hasn't had much trouble selling a good number of the 18,000 seats on game day in their home venue, the Colonial Life Arena lately. We can only imagine
that interest and ticket sales will go up, now that the Gamecocks are the defending national champions. After all, everybody loves a winner.

Already sold out the lower bowl and the season is still 3 months away.

 

[MilfordHusky]

At least we are ahead of Louisville and the Yum Center and the green people from Indiana. Let's pass Iowa State and Tennessee this year!

 

[MilfordHusky]

Already sold out the lower bowl and the season is still 3 months away.

Nice! What happens when A'ja leaves?

 

[SCspur]

Nice! What happens when A'ja leaves?

Continue to lead the nation in attendance and compete for national championships

 

[MilfordHusky]

Continue to lead the nation in attendance and compete for national championships

Time will tell.

 

[CocoHusky]

Great job by South Carolina. First they got the confederate flag removed from the capital. Second build a program from the ground up to lead NCAA in attendance for WCBB. Third SC became national Champion for WCBB.
For your next move I want SC to really shock the world and pay Dawn Staley as much as you are paying Frank Martin.

 

[vtcwbuff]

UTenn's attendance slide continues. A 12% decrease in attendance from last year.

 

[SCspur]

Great job by South Carolina. First they got the confederate flag removed from the capital. Second build a program from the ground up to lead NCAA in attendance for WCBB. Third SC became national Champion for WCBB.
For your next move I want SC to really shock the world and pay Dawn Staley as much as you are paying Frank Martin.

I think both deserve the world and more really hope we can keep them around for a long time!

 

[stamfordhusky]

One thing to remember is that the top programs for attendance have MUCH cheaper prices than UConn. For example, in 2016-17 you could buy a season ticket for South Carolina for as little as $30. Yes, for the season - $2 per game. Iowa State season tickets for 20 games last year were about $80.

UConn leads the nation in ticket revenue due to its much higher ticket prices. I wish they would lower the prices a bit to ensure all sellouts - but the current approach may maximize revenue.

 

[bizarro aj]

Ticket price has a lot to do with attendance as well as parking prices around the stadium. Uconn plays in a few different arenas around Ct.

 

[stamfordhusky]

One thing to remember is that the top programs for attendance have MUCH cheaper prices than UConn. For example, in 2016-17 you could buy a season ticket for South Carolina for as little as $30. Yes, for the season - $2 per game. Iowa State season tickets for 20 games last year were about $80.

UConn leads the nation in ticket revenue due to its much higher ticket prices. I wish they would lower the prices a bit to ensure all sellouts - but the current approach may maximize revenue.

For comparison's sake, I see that to purchase season tickets for UConn games at Gampel and Hartford costs a total of $308 this year. Also, as many know, a high parking fee. Think more tickets would be sold if they were available for $2 apiece?

 

[bballnut90]

UTenn's attendance slide continues. A 12% decrease in attendance from last year.

In 2012 they averaged 14,414 fans and had a massive drop, down to 11,390 in 2013 once Pat retired. Since then they've dropped every year (besides a slight increase from 2015 to 2016:
2014: 11,038
2015: 10,375
2016: 10,412
2017: 9,184

That's a reduction in attendance of over 35% in just 5 years.

What's also interesting is Connecticut's attendance has dropped a good amount ever since the program started monopolizing basketball (Fall 2008-present). Fans don't seem as eager to attend games when it's a virtual lock for a win. Attendance seems to be stabilizing between 8000-9000, but compare that to 2005 when Geno had his worst team of the last 20+ years and they still averaged 12,826 fans.

 

[stamfordhusky]

In 2012 they averaged 14,414 fans and had a massive drop, down to 11,390 in 2013 once Pat retired. Since then they've dropped every year (besides a slight increase from 2015 to 2016:
2014: 11,038
2015: 10,375
2016: 10,412
2017: 9,184

That's a reduction in attendance of over 35% in just 5 years.

What's also interesting is Connecticut's attendance has dropped a good amount ever since the program started monopolizing basketball (Fall 2008-present). Fans don't seem as eager to attend games when it's a virtual lock for a win. Attendance seems to be stabilizing between 8000-9000, but compare that to 2005 when Geno had his worst team of the last 20+ years and they still averaged 12,826 fans.

Back in 2005, however, ticket prices were much lower.

 

[bizarro aj]

You have to also add TV into the equation, as every uconn game is on a national network ever since cptv no longer covers the games.

 

[cockhrnleghrn]

South Carolina hasn't had much trouble selling a good number of the 18,000 seats on game day in their home venue, the Colonial Life Arena lately. We can only imagine
that interest and ticket sales will go up, now that the Gamecocks are the defending national champions. After all, everybody loves a winner.

We've already sold well over 10,000 season tickets, which doesn't include student tickets. Season ticket sales continue another 2 months so I wouldn't be surprised if season ticket sales exceed last year's average attendance. Our men's attendance will likely jump, too. They were 21st in average attendance last year and top 10 wouldn't shock me this year.

 

[cockhrnleghrn]

Great job by South Carolina. First they got the confederate flag removed from the capital. Second build a program from the ground up to lead NCAA in attendance for WCBB. Third SC became national Champion for WCBB.
For your next move I want SC to really shock the world and pay Dawn Staley as much as you are paying Frank Martin.

Does Geno make as much as Kevin Ollie?

 

[Charliebball]

Does Geno make as much as Kevin Ollie?

According to the numbers I've seen, Geno will make a minimum of 2.4 million this year plus some incentives and Kevin Ollie makes 2.8 million per year

 

[HopJim]

South Carolina tops women’s basketball attendance for 3rd straight season; Washington has largest home attendance increase

I'd be curious who sells the most tickets when playing away. Have attended many games outside of Conn through the years and UConn seems to always be the big draw of the year.

 

[Vowelguy]

I'd be curious who sells the most tickets when playing away. Have attended many games outside of Conn through the years and UConn seems to always be the big draw of the year.

The doc lists the top 10 programs in all attendance (home/away/neutral). Subtracting out the Home info, we get this for average away/neutral attendance:

1. UConn 7119
2. SoCar 6029
3. Kntky 5630
4. Ms St 5537
5. Tenn_ 4712
6. Mryld 4387
7. Ia St 4187
8. Baylr 4175
9. NDame 3815
10. Louis 3073

Note this is NOT the "top 10". It's just the values for the 10 programs where we have data. That said, I would assume the top 5 above is the true top 5.