Iowa State 23rd in MBB Attendance

[htownclone]

3rd out of big 12 schools is impressive...only behind texas and kansas.

[im4iast8]

someone should try to find womens basketball attendance nationally... i bet we're well up on that list

[Cyclone62]

Originally Posted by rworkman83

After watching this video, I think they are in the bottom 25.

Look at the crowd behind Erin Andrews.

YouTube - Erin Andrews Sideline Reporting

Uhh... that's from a year ago. Also, Iowa had been in the top 25 for quite some time up until last year if I remember correctly.

[ajk4st8]

Originally Posted by cyfan964

New Mexico surprises me. Must be nothing else to do.

"The Pit" is pretty awesome

[rworkman83]

Originally Posted by Cyclone62

Uhh... that's from a year ago. Also, Iowa had been in the top 25 for quite some time up until last year if I remember correctly.

You are correct. Going back and looking at the figures back to 2000, it is quite sad the dropoff in attendance at Iowa games. Iowa State has been pretty steady, yet I'm not sure how we had such low numbers of people at the games in '00 and '01 when we were so good. Here are the numbers:

Iowa State:

2007 - 25th - 12, 489
2006 - 26th - 11, 895
2005 - 29th - 11, 208
2004 - 34th - 11, 310
2003 - 28th - 11, 743
2002 - 24th - 12, 110
2001 - 21st - 12, 360
2000 - 38th - 10, 543

Iowa:

2007 - 29th - 12, 196
2006 - 25th - 12, 006
2005 - 22nd - 11, 900
2004 - 23rd - 12, 977
2003 - 20th - 13, 235
2002 - 12th - 15, 207
2001 - 12th - 15, 500
2000 - 13th - 15, 156

[JonDMiller]

Iowa had been in the Top 25 every year they released the Top 25, going back to the late 1970's, until Alford's final year. You can see the Alford effect in the numbers provided above.

Now, Lick has to clean the place up. Alford was possibly worse than going on NCAA probation.

ISU fans have been doing a great job of showing up, during some hard times.

[Cyclone62]

Where were they the years prior (5-10 year preference to see trends) to Alford, Jon?

[rworkman83]

Here's the page with the numbers, dating back to 1976.

NCAA Men's Basketball Attendance

[Ficklone02]

This reaffirms my annoyance with those people who try to blame the fans for not supporting our teams enough.....the winning has to come on the court, not from the stands.

[SaxaCLONE13]

It's incredible to think that we beat out arenas who house athletes like Beasley and Hibbert just to name a few....

[Al_4_State]

Originally Posted by IcSyU

I didn't realize Creighton was so high.

All those die hard Huskers need something to do in winter...

[jl112481]

Funny how this year was the highest attendace since at least 2000 and yet all that I can remember reading this year was about the lack of people going to the games. I don't even know how many threads there were of people complaining that Iowa State fans weren't supporting the team by showing up to games.

[BryceC]

Originally Posted by jl112481

Funny how this year was the highest attendace since at least 2000 and yet all that I can remember reading this year was about the lack of people going to the games. I don't even know how many threads there were of people complaining that Iowa State fans weren't supporting the team by showing up to games.

I support those threads - no offense, but there was no where NEAR 13k people at the games.

[CycloneErik]

Originally Posted by BryceC

I support those threads - no offense, but there was no where NEAR 13k people at the games.

I was at every game. There were quite a few lonely moments there for Revkah and I, and too many chances to move down from the 4th row from the top.

Selling lots of tickets is a great thing, but a lot of those people never showed up.

[CycloneWarrior]

We beat out duke. That's impressive. Cameron crazies