Grand total of 1569 (and it definitely looks like that on TV), even with free admission for students.
On the other hand, the attendance of the men's game between UH and UCF right before the women's game
had an attendance of 7028 (capacity is only 8400), and students do not get in for free for the men's game,
and neither men's teams are that good (although UH did beat UConn earlier in the year).
I was at both games, and I am more stunned by the men's number.
The place looked almost empty. I walked in just after halftime. I sat ear the back, but went down to the front to scope out where I would be sitting for the women's game, and I saw empty seats in the first few rows. My guess is that less than a quarter of the seats were occupied.
I can think of two reasons for the disparity. One of that virtually all teams report tickets sold, and I'll guess there are thousands of season ticket holders, many of whom didn't happen to show up for this game (which was a great game, BTW).
The second is that it was Cheerleader day, and there were hundreds of cheerleaders (mostly middle school if you were wondering), most of whom were chatting in the hallways, not in the arena. I looked up the attendance, guessing it might be 3000, and was stunned to see 7000. That's the report, but no way were the arena even half full.
Of course, the same rule (counting season ticket holders) counts for the women, but if I'm a Houston season ticket holder and going to miss some games, this is not the one I'm missing.
Yes there were quite a few Connecticut transplants to the Houston area in the crowd, I got to chat with a few.
Plus, as Nick points out, there are some local UConn fans. I met one, Charika, who has been following UConn for years, but unable to go to a game. She wore all blue, and purchased one of the courtside seats.
Whose ball??? COOGS BALL!!!
Nothing after the news that Buchanan resigned for personal reasons and to devote more time to the family, which can mean anything today in sports, from burn out to having an ill family member. No point in speculating.Houston is also just having a miserable year after having been fairly decent in recent years - the loss of the coach at the start of the year was so strange. Has there been any more news as to his reasons for departure?
We can't even get our fans to yell "Don't let them play!" so how can we get them to yell "Coogs Ball?" Maybe "Coors for all!"I loved that call. We need something like that.
I don't know about the games, but maybe we could start some cheers on the BY like the U...C...O...N...N indented thread title list of yore, only just cramming them all into a cheers thread. One possibility to honor one our esteemed BY members of amazing stature:We can't even get our fans to yell "Don't let them play!" so how can we get them to yell "Coogs Ball?" Maybe "Coors for all!"