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OU and Texas should be the most embarrassed. Just a sign of how the big programs have fair weather fans. How can you justify getting 80-100,000 people to buy tickets for football games but you can't fill up an arena 1/10 the size for bball games. Nebraska is another good example of this, what make that worse is Creighton gets 10k+ huskers fans at every home game, so they are bball fans, just not of the school they claim is the heart and soul of the state.
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hexodat64 
It would be nice if everyone else could start filling up their arenas. That's the one thing the Big 10 really does have on us, people show up to games. The rest of the conference (ie everyone but KU/KSU/and us) really need to start pulling their weight attendance wise. That WVU/Texas game on ESPN was embarrassing for the conference.
So was the BU/ISU game, I would be surprised if there were 1000 people there.
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BringBackJohnny There is no way that is how many people are actually in the building at some of those places
Actual fans in the building I'm positive WVU would jump Texas, OU and maybe OSU. They're either too honest with their numbers or they have a smaller arena than I thought.
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Comparing the tickets to the arena capacity would show that Texas is close to 60% as it holds 16734... Lamehorns....
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heitclone OU and Texas should be the most embarrassed. Just a sign of how the big programs have fair weather fans. How can you justify getting 80-100,000 people to buy tickets for football games but you can't fill up an arena 1/10 the size for bball games. Nebraska is another good example of this, what make that worse is Creighton gets 10k+ huskers fans at every home game, so they are bball fans, just not of the school they claim is the heart and soul of the state.
I agree but I wouldn't put them as bball fans just fans of a winner.
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bawbie That's something the Big10 has on everyone else. Pac 10, ACC, SEC are worse than Big 12 in attendance.
I wonder what A10, Big East, MVC and MWC #s look like. I'm sure you're right that the western and southern schools blow in attendance.
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I had seen a article in the Statesmen that ISU also leads the Big 12 in road attendance. I can't find it now.
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BringBackJohnny Big 12 has too many schools in smaller metro areas and the schools in the Big 10 are often much bigger in size than Big 12 schools.
No kidding, the population of the Minneapolis/St. Paul metro area is greater than that of the entire state of Iowa. Although across the board you still have to give them credit for fans in the stands as opposed to about half of the Big 12 schools.
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JP4CY Got this info in an email from ISU ticket office:
With your loyal attendance, Hilton Coliseum is ranked second in attendance: - Kansas (16,466)
- Iowa State (13,209)
- Kansas State (12,547)
- Texas (11,037)
- Oklahoma (9,601)
- Oklahoma State (9,383)
- West Virginia (8,771)
- Texas Tech (7,674)
- Baylor (6.774)
- TCU (4.684)
Fixed those misplaced decimals included in the original article listing. :spinny:
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Okie State should be ashamed.
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BoxsterCy No kidding, the population of the Minneapolis/St. Paul metro area is greater than that of the entire state of Iowa. Although across the board you still have to give them credit for fans in the stands as opposed to about half of the Big 12 schools.
I ran some numbers and based on enrollment and metro population MN has horrible attendance. I know we have to factor in pro teams and records of teams but on the surface in a city with as many alumni as UMN has they should be selling out each game. The population of ISU within a 45 minutes drive is approx 800,000. The same in the twin cities is 3.3 million.
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HFCS I wonder what A10, Big East, MVC and MWC #s look like. I'm sure you're right that the western and southern schools blow in attendance.
Google turned up this on the big east.
Big East Hoop Attendance Rankings for 2/19 with NBE teams added
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mtowncyclone13 I ran some numbers and based on enrollment and metro population MN has horrible attendance. I know we have to factor in pro teams and records of teams but on the surface in a city with as many alumni as UMN has they should be selling out each game. The population of ISU within a 45 minutes drive is approx 800,000. The same in the twin cities is 3.3 million.
Yeah, even with the pro team, MSP is big enough it should be able to draw support.
OU has a better excuse, not great, but better. Oklahoma City thunder is selling out 18k a game there.
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that makes me more mad that we lost to tech on the road and they had no fan support whatsoever to "sway" he officials or energize their team
