John and Eric said tonight's crowd at Texas was smallest they've seen in Austin for an ISU game, and by a long shot. We've seen the attendance at TAMU and Tech, and it was a joke. There were tons of empty seats for Baylor at OU tonight, too. What is going on with Big 12 attendance? Glad we had record season ticket sales, and I can't wait to be at a packed Hilton Saturday.
Big 12 Attendance
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They don't care about basketball in Texas, and Oklahoma attendance has been weak since Griffin left.
The South schools do seem even worse than usual this year attendance-wise. I watched part of the Oklahoma State/Kansas State game last week, and they had several camera shots of the upper level at GIA. Completely empty. Sad to see such a historically good home-court like OSU has slip to that level.
It was nice that Texas actually announces not only paid attendance which was 10,117 but also actual attendance which was 6,349. These figures really make you appreciate Iowa State and the resiliency of Cyclone fans. We haven't made the Tourney in 7 years. Texas hasn't missed the Tourney under Rick Barnes. Austin has a population of 790,000+ compared to 58,000+ for Ames. The Texas fan base is 10x as large. We still outdraw them. Cyclone fans are the greatest!
Our actual attendance for Women's games is better than actual attendance for Men's games at the Texas and Oklahoma schools.
Better days ahead. Go Cyclones!
That's like our average student section :shocked:
Amazing to think Texas spends $94.5 million more on athletics than we do and we can still compete (and have a strong chance to claim we are the better team).
UT is young and struggling this year. A & M has greatly underacheived. Tech is in the first year of a new coach, and might be the worst team in a top 6 conference.
OU never really supported basketball. Okie State is struggling with keeping players, and playing a really ugly brand of basketball. They are the best of the fans in the South, and they see the reality of this team.
The one that doesn't really make sense is Baylor struggling with attendance. I don't know what they are averaging this year, but that is a very good team, and exciting to boot.
OU never really supported basketball. Okie State is struggling with keeping players, and playing a really ugly brand of basketball. They are the best of the fans in the South, and they see the reality of this team.
The one that doesn't really make sense is Baylor struggling with attendance. I don't know what they are averaging this year, but that is a very good team, and exciting to boot.
The popular sport is and always will be football. The popularity of basketball is falling yearly. Too many one and dones and basketball players get a bad rep. This is honestly the first time in 10 years I have followed ISU basketball.
Good showing from Clone fans in attendance, though. There had to be a couple hundred of us, at least.
Why do you think Mid-Majors have been doing so well lately. Many of them don't have major football to compete with their B-Ball. Also, they often have players that stay for 4 years which evens the playing field with teams that have more talented but less experienced players.
The traditional powerhouses are still usually pretty good, but the mid level big 6 teams are starting to see both their ADs and fans making a choice between football and basketball. A lot ot ADs can't afford to pump money into basketball and keep up with their conference for football. Coincidentally, a lot of fans can't afford to pay a kings ransom for season football tickets and also pay for b-ball tickets.
The arms race of college football combined with economic issues for both schools and fans has to take a toll somewhere. Unfortunately, that means basketball takes a hit a lot of the time.
Couple that with teams that are having an off year, like Texas, and you lose a lot of that home court advantage.
Idk how there weren't many fans at the gm last night. Their teams playing well n the cyclones were n 3rd place
