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Post by DuddingtonHoya on Mar 4, 2007 18:00:20 GMT -5
Since we beat the 17K attendance for the UConn game ... how high above our average last year did we get? DFW?
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Post by DFW HOYA on Mar 4, 2007 18:07:01 GMT -5
Finished with 10,441, 8th in the league but still above last year.
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Post by SFHoya99 on Mar 4, 2007 18:12:18 GMT -5
Finished with 10,441, 8th in the league but still above last year. What about Verizon attendance? McD probably takes down our average half a thousand or so. |
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Post by DFW HOYA on Mar 4, 2007 18:37:23 GMT -5
What about Verizon attendance? McD probably takes down our average half a thousand or so. 11,518. Verizon-only numbers would be 6th or 7th in the league, depending how you count the Wachovia Center vs. Pavilion numbers for Villanova. On the other side of the ledger, even with a home game against Duke, St. John's drew less than 7,000 a game this season: Syracuse 21,488 Louisville 18,488 Marquette 15,345 Connecticut 13,012 Pittsburgh 11,611 Villanova 10,706 DePaul 10,551 Georgetown 10,441 West Virginia 9,649 Notre Dame 9,027 Cincinnati 8,831 Providence 8,410 St. John's 6,920 Seton Hall 6,636 Rutgers 5,453 USF 3,852 |
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Post by jerseyhoya34 on Mar 4, 2007 18:45:20 GMT -5
SJU also has Louie Arena, which is not nearly as accessible as MSG.
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Post by FormerHoya on Mar 4, 2007 20:55:37 GMT -5
I can't believe we were outdrawn by DePaul.
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Post by CTHoya08 on Mar 4, 2007 22:40:47 GMT -5
UConn also plays in two different arenas, although my lifetime disdain for that program has resulted in a lack of knowledge re: the comparative capacities of Gampel and the Civic Center, so I don't know how their attendance average is effected.
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Post by DanMcQ on Mar 4, 2007 22:53:24 GMT -5
Seating capacities:
HCC - 15,474
ConnDome - 10,027
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Post by The Stig on Mar 5, 2007 0:31:14 GMT -5
Are there any numbers on student attendance alone?
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Post by FairfaxHoya on Mar 5, 2007 7:33:32 GMT -5
I can't believe we were outdrawn by DePaul. Agreed - that one is a stunner to me. |
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Post by hoyainspirit on Mar 5, 2007 7:55:34 GMT -5
Just goes to show that DePaul is sitting on a gold mine if they ever truly get it together. And believe me, getting to the Horizon(or whatever it's called) in Rosemont is far worse in terms of time/traffic than getting to the Cap Center in Landover ever was.
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Post by TrueHoyaBlue on Mar 5, 2007 8:04:57 GMT -5
It's actually not that tough... they had only six OOC home games (of which two were Kansas and Cal). So they could keep the numbers from tanking by having 57% of their home games as BE games.
On the other hand, we had nine OOC home games, of which none were of the super-draw potential (even if people had known Oregon was going to be as good as they turned out, it's still not a big ticket or huge alumni presence on the East Coast. Additionally, the 9 games overall was tough on average attendance, and the fact that the two in McDonough were capped at 2,500 a piece, and one that might have otherwise a naturally big draw -- Navy, due to the huge presence in the area -- wound up two days before Christmas.
For the sake of comparison, here's how the attendance figures looked for just conference games:
Syracuse: 25,106
Louisville: 19,577
Marquette: 17,929
Georgetown: 15,077
Connecticut: 13,900
Pittsburgh: 12,348
Villanova: 12,330
DePaul: 11,338
WVU: 11,213
Providence: 9,995
Notre Dame: 9,773
Cincinnate: 9,1000
Seton Hall: 7,865
St. John: 7,650
Rutgers: 6,963
USF: 4,841
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Post by ColumbiaHeightsHoya on Mar 5, 2007 8:44:29 GMT -5
Those who claimed we would be in the 14 to 15K range were way off. If we didn't drop games early on and were highly ranked throughout the season, that would have gotten us those numbers. No one wants to see us against JMU on a Tuesday night. Until we have better OOC home games, we are always going to struggle with the numbers. This is why UMD, UVA, Duke, GW should all be on the schedule every year.
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Post by Filo on Mar 5, 2007 10:00:55 GMT -5
Those who claimed we would be in the 14 to 15K range were way off. If we didn't drop games early on and were highly ranked throughout the season, that would have gotten us those numbers. No one wants to see us against JMU on a Tuesday night. Until we have better OOC home games, we are always going to struggle with the numbers. This is why UMD, UVA, Duke, GW should all be on the schedule every year. Yeah, but there is an inconsistency there -- not dropping early games vs. scheduling tougher team. It took a while for the team to gel. We had 3 early losses and the sky was just about falling around here. Imagine if we played UVa and UMD early and lost those rather than beating, say, JMU and Towson? |
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Post by HoyaSpirit on Mar 5, 2007 16:21:25 GMT -5
Those who claimed we would be in the 14 to 15K range were way off. If we didn't drop games early on and were highly ranked throughout the season, that would have gotten us those numbers. No one wants to see us against JMU on a Tuesday night. Until we have better OOC home games, we are always going to struggle with the numbers. This is why UMD, UVA, Duke, GW should all be on the schedule every year. I agree - the higher quality ooc games bring more fans, more $, more excitement, more press, and more respect. We had a pretty decent ooc this year (although a lot on the road) and it helped prepare us for the whole season (esp. by exposing our weaknesses early so we could fix them, and also by raising our level of play). We should every year play at least that ooc or better. And we have to upgrade some of the rpi killers - those teams that are 250 and higher to be more in the 175-250 range - still very much easy games, but give us more learning and also better rpi etc. |
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Post by doublehoya on Mar 6, 2007 11:35:13 GMT -5
I'd like to see us pass DePaul and 'Nova next year. With the right scheduling and promotion (and of coruse, a great Hoya team on the Court) I think we can do this easily -- Pitt's numbers might even be in reach!
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Post by vcjack on Mar 6, 2007 11:39:04 GMT -5
Depaul's numbers are boosted by other fans, especially for games like Marquette. To be fair, our numbers are padded too by other fans, but not to the extreme extent that Depaul has to put up with
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Post by Gold Hoya on Mar 6, 2007 11:42:37 GMT -5
DePaul vs. Marquette was on the evening of Valentine's Day this year, so it wasn't the sellout that would have happened on a random Saturday afternoon.
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Post by Jack on Mar 6, 2007 11:57:37 GMT -5
DePaul vs. Marquette was on the evening of Valentine's Day this year, so it wasn't the sellout that would have happened on a random Saturday afternoon. You mean all of Milwaukee was unwilling to commute to Rosemont to spend Valentine's Day with their sweetheart, Lord Crean? |
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Post by The Stig on Mar 6, 2007 12:05:35 GMT -5
DePaul vs. Marquette was on the evening of Valentine's Day this year, so it wasn't the sellout that would have happened on a random Saturday afternoon. You mean all of Milwaukee was unwilling to commute to Rosemont to spend Valentine's Day with their sweetheart, Lord Crean? Most people in Milwaukee don't even know who Tom Crean is. Other than when they go deep in the NCAA's, Marquette basketball is pretty irrelevant in Milwaukee. |
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