Attendance: 7,612
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Attendance
Team | HOME GAMES Avg | AWAY GAMES Avg | NEUT GAMES Avg | ALL GAMES Avg |
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Baylor | 15-92706 6180 | 9-94288 10476 | 2-11000 5500 | 26-197994 7615 |
Iowa State | 14-199946 14282 | 7-78373 11196 | 4-36025 9006 | 25-314344 12574 |
Kansas | 13-213227 16402 | 9-94632 10515 | 4-32446 8112 | 26-340305 13089 |
Kansas State | 15-188281 12552 | 9-92657 10295 | 3-7200 2400 | 27-288138 10672 |
Oklahoma | 13-142290 10945 | 9-101791 11310 | 4-16305 4076 | 26-260386 10015 |
Oklahoma State | 14-112219 8016 | 10-116766 11677 | 2-3219 1610 | 26-232204 8931 |
TCU | 17-69348 4079 | 7-68904 9843 | 2-5252 2626 | 26-143504 5519 |
Texas | 15-165136 11009 | 9-107193 11910 | 2-22796 11398 | 26-295125 11351 |
Texas Tech | 17-111591 6564 | 8-93275 11659 | 2-1270 635 | 27-206136 7635 |
West Virginia | 14-135077 9648 | 7-66350 9479 | 5-41100 8220 | 26-242527 9328 |
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Totals | 147-1429821 9727 | 84-914229 10884 | 30-176613 5887 | 261-2520663 9658 |
Team | HOME GAMES Avg | AWAY GAMES Avg | NEUT GAMES Avg | ALL GAMES Avg |
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Baylor | 15-92706 6180 | 9-94288 10476 | 2-11000 5500 | 26-197994 7615 |
Iowa State | 14-199946 14282 | 7-78373 11196 | 4-36025 9006 | 25-314344 12574 |
Kansas | 13-213227 16402 | 9-94632 10515 | 4-32446 8112 | 26-340305 13089 |
Kansas State | 15-188281 12552 | 9-92657 10295 | 3-7200 2400 | 27-288138 10672 |
Oklahoma | 13-142290 10945 | 9-101791 11310 | 4-16305 4076 | 26-260386 10015 |
Oklahoma State | 14-112219 8016 | 10-116766 11677 | 2-3219 1610 | 26-232204 8931 |
TCU | 17-69348 4079 | 7-68904 9843 | 2-5252 2626 | 26-143504 5519 |
Texas | 15-165136 11009 | 9-107193 11910 | 2-22796 11398 | 26-295125 11351 |
Texas Tech | 17-111591 6564 | 8-93275 11659 | 2-1270 635 | 27-206136 7635 |
West Virginia | 14-135077 9648 | 7-66350 9479 | 5-41100 8220 | 26-242527 9328 |
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Totals | 147-1429821 9727 | 84-914229 10884 | 30-176613 5887 | 261-2520663 9658 |
That's the thing. If people remember GIA as a loud, raucus arena that 'could rival hilton' it probably was because they were cramming a small number of people into an even smaller building. Plus when youre at or near capacity demand for those seats gets higher and higher making it easier for people to offload tickets they dont use (as we've seen at hilton increasingly). They may have filled it up after the expansion for a few years but it apparently wasnt sustainable for them if they werent playing at Eddie Sutton's level.
I believe this is the truth. Unless you have an elite team in this league, attendance suffers because basketball just isn't very interesting compared to football, which drives the Big 12. K-State, the next tier, has had remarkably good attendance and far exceeds WVU, but that won't last given what's happening on the court. Basketball, as a sport, is suffering, period. It too often is just a butt ugly affair dominated by time outs and god-awful shooting. People would rather sit at home and miss the commercials.
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Attendance reported through 1/9/15
BIG 12
1. Kansas: 115,427 (7) = 16,490
2. Iowa State: 113,642 (8) = 14,205
3. Kansas State: 113,377 (9) = 12,597
4. Oklahoma: 74,611 (7) = 10,659
5. Texas: 101,626 (10) = 10,163
6. West Virginia: 52,277 (6) = 8,713
7. Oklahoma State: 56,551 (8) = 7,069
8. Texas Tech: 70,741 (12) = 5,895
9. Baylor: 50,812 (9) = 5,646
10. TCU: 40,798 (9) = 3,709
BIG 12
1. Kansas: 115,427 (7) = 16,490
2. Iowa State: 113,642 (8) = 14,205
3. Kansas State: 113,377 (9) = 12,597
4. Oklahoma: 74,611 (7) = 10,659
5. Texas: 101,626 (10) = 10,163
6. West Virginia: 52,277 (6) = 8,713
7. Oklahoma State: 56,551 (8) = 7,069
8. Texas Tech: 70,741 (12) = 5,895
9. Baylor: 50,812 (9) = 5,646
10. TCU: 40,798 (9) = 3,709
Capacities and % of capacity:
1. Kansas: 16,300 = 101%
2. Iowa State: 14,356 = 99%
3. Kansas State: 12,528 = 100%
4. Oklahoma: 12,000 = 89%
5. Texas: 16,734 = 61%
6. West Virginia: 14,000 = 62%
7. Oklahoma State: 13,611 = 52%
8. Texas Tech: 15,098 = 39%
9. Baylor: 10,284 = 55%
10. TCU: 7,201= 52%
Some of those numbers (I'm looking at you WVU, OSU, and Baylor)...WOOF.
It's interesting to speculate what ISU MBB attendance would be like now if ISU had "broken through" to the TCU/Baylor level success in FB during the later Eustachy/Morgan/McDermott years, and had been able to maintain the success.
Is it a coincidence that ISU and KU lead in MBB attendance, but are perrenially the two worst Big 12 FB teams?
I just checked out the latest SEC weekly media release. Missouri's average home MBB attendance is 8189. They are 3 years removed from a 30-5 team, and 23-11 and 23-12 since then. A little FB success combined with a little slip in the MBB quality and there you are.
I agree with Surly. FB is driving the bus, and MBB is doing itself no favors with the boring style of play (sans Hoiberg and a few others).
Is it a coincidence that ISU and KU lead in MBB attendance, but are perrenially the two worst Big 12 FB teams?
I just checked out the latest SEC weekly media release. Missouri's average home MBB attendance is 8189. They are 3 years removed from a 30-5 team, and 23-11 and 23-12 since then. A little FB success combined with a little slip in the MBB quality and there you are.
I agree with Surly. FB is driving the bus, and MBB is doing itself no favors with the boring style of play (sans Hoiberg and a few others).
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No way K State is that high, and TCU is playing at the local YMCA lookalike from what I've seen on TV. Their current arena is getting renovated.
Yeah, TCU is playing at the arena for the fort worth csd. and an article I found looks like it seats 4,759
http://www.star-telegram.com/sports/college/article3855093.html
They are related but at ISU I don't think they impact each other. We still have large crowds for football and we sell out all of our basketball games. Fans have stuck through both sports in good times and bad times so I'm hard-pressed to believe we'd go down in even better times.
Creative counting at OU, there is no way any game I have watched at OU this year has been more than 50% full, even Okie State.
I'm sure these numbers being reported are paid attendance. For schools at the top like ISU and KU, actual attendance is probably fairly close to paid. For the schools lower on the list, not a chance. I haven't seen a TCU game yet that looks like they have 3700 people in a 4700 seat gym, that place is a ghost town.
At some point doesn't the Ford boycott theory come back and bite Poke fans in the ***. Any good coach would have to think twice about taking a job where the fan's reaction to ranked teams is basically a giant meh.
Yeah, but it also makes a lot of sense. I suppose they could play at a the Dallas Mavericks arena (which google says is about the same as Ames to Des Moines), but then you're playing in a huge arena with no attendance. It's a much better atmosphere to play in an almost full small gym than a huge, empty arena
