ISU-Iowa game draws 5th biggest crowd this season

[cycloneworld]

Nice (but short) article in the DMR talking about women's basketball attendance.

Cyclone women's basketball: Iowa-ISU game draws fifth-biggest crowd | DesMoinesRegister.com | The Des Moines Register

Wednesday's Iowa at Iowa State women's basketball game drew the sport's fifth-largest crowd this season.

The Cyclones' 58-44 victory had a paid of attendance of 12,931 at Hilton Coliseum. That is one of six women's basketball games to top a 12,000 turnout this season, according to Monday's weekly tabulation by the University of Wisconsin. The other five were all at Tennessee.

For the season, Iowa State ranks third nationally in attendance with an average of 10,078, trailing No. 1 Tennessee (14,714) and No. 2 Connecticut (10,130).

Among the state's other Division I teams, Iowa ranks 33rd nationally with an average turnout of 2,674 while Drake is averaging 2,505 fans and Northern Iowa 1,143.

- Dan Johnson





Attendance

leaders

School Season average

1. Tennessee 14,714

2. Connecticut 10,130

3. Iowa State 10,078

4. Oklahoma 9,058

5. Purdue 9,056



TOP TURNOUTS,

SINGLE GAMES



1. N. Carolina at Tennessee Dec. 2: 16,845

2. Texas at Tennessee

Nov. 18: 15,699

3. La. Tech at Tennessee

Nov. 26: 14,891

4. Chattanooga at Tennessee Nov. 11: 13,811

5. Iowa at Iowa State

Dec. 5: 12,931

[C.John]

ISU: 10078
EIU: 2674
DU: 2505
UNI: 1143

Keep up the good work Clone fans.

[keepngoal]

Don't let SH read this thread, there are too many factual numbers in it .... He may talk about $25 tickets for who knows what game.

-keep.

[iowast8fan]

Iowa and Drake averaging nearly the same for attendence. yikes...then again, criminal charges seem to prove women don't really matter too much in Iowa City. Was that below the belt? sorry.

[cloneu]

That is not a bad crowd to be in with Tennessee and UConn. Then comparing it to a school like Iowa at almost 8K less. That is pretty amazing the type of WBB fans for ISU.

[MidwestZest]

I've always wondered how big of a change it is for the girls when they go to other big 12 schools like colorado where they draw 700 people in for a game. It must feel like middle school all over again

[cloneu]

Originally Posted by MidwestZest

I've always wondered how big of a change it is for the girls when they go to other big 12 schools like colorado where they draw 700 people in for a game. It must feel like middle school all over again

That also has to be a good draw for recruiting. A player comes to ISU for a game and sees a rocking Hilton, then goes to another school and see's under 1000 people. That has to make a strong impact on some people.

[ISUFan22]

Everyone knows this is our WNBA championship game...

[clonomaniac]

Too bad the game wasn't nationally televised!!!

[rd4isu]

You have to remember that Hawk fans shouldn't be expected to to pay the tens of dollars it cost to "support" their WBB team. They're already broke from overspending on their mediocre football season.

Originally Posted by SouthernHawk

After 8 years of mediocre basketball, and a predictable bad year, do you honestly expect for fans to cough up hundreds of dollars to "support their new coach", especially after coughing up hundreds of dollars to support a mediocre football season?

[bellzisu]

Originally Posted by keepngoal

Don't let SH read this thread, there are too many factual numbers in it .... He may talk about $25 tickets for who knows what game.

-keep.

Yeah... I thought it was funny this weekend that he didn't say much after the Basektball game, but once Iowa beat us in Wrestling you couldn't shut the poor kid up. He doesn't work well with factual numbers.

Its great to see all the Hawkeye wrestling fans that crawled out of the wood work after this weekend. Sad and PATHETIC actually.

That does include you Mr Jon Miller.

Good work Cyclone fans....