Attendance Tracker

outoftown · March 5

A decent percentage in the rise is the SMU game, which -sadly- is likely to be a one-off.

That said, I do think the AAC opponents draw maybe a bit better than the old C-USA did. I know there is overlap etc, but people might know a bit better who Memphis is than who MTSU is, who USF is rather than FIU (even though FIU is the bigger university) etc.

Matt from A700 · March 5

12 minutes ago, outoftown said:

A decent percentage in the rise is the SMU game, which -sadly- is likely to be a one-off.

That said, I do think the AAC opponents draw maybe a bit better than the old C-USA did. I know there is overlap etc, but people might know a bit better who Memphis is than who MTSU is, who USF is rather than FIU (even though FIU is the bigger university) etc.

But then you also have to factor in the small turnouts resulting from FOUR home games over Winter Break + another on the Saturday of Thanksgiving Break vs. a D-I team. I definitely think "the average Pit crowd" increased in size this year. Last year, there were hardly any people that sat behind the far baseline by the UNT bench. Now it seems Sections 123-124 get decently filled. SMU's big crowd may have been a one-off this year, but since Grant's CBI run and outside of Covid, we seem to have had at least one of those nice 6000+ crowds each year.

CMJ · March 5

2 hours ago, Matt from A700 said:

But then you also have to factor in the small turnouts resulting from FOUR home games over Winter Break + another on the Saturday of Thanksgiving Break vs. a D-I team. I definitely think "the average Pit crowd" increased in size this year. Last year, there were hardly any people that sat behind the far baseline by the UNT bench. Now it seems Sections 123-124 get decently filled. SMU's big crowd may have been a one-off this year, but since Grant's CBI run and outside of Covid, we seem to have had at least one of those nice 6000+ crowds each year.

Don't we usually have 3-5 home games over winter break though?

Matt from A700 · March 5

12 minutes ago, CMJ said:

Don't we usually have 3-5 home games over winter break though?

My cubicle's not hidden enough to take the time to look at the past 5-10 years, but last year we only had three. Also, we didn't have a home game over Thanksgiving break either, since we were in the Bahamas.

keith · March 7

Has FAU become our nemesis on the hardwood or what? Maybe we get another shot at them in the tourney and can serve up some Mean Green revenge.

Here are the final home attendance stats for the season. The '23-'24 team brought in a total of 61,982 fans to the Super Pit. The final home game attendance of 4,551 was enough to bump our season average another 30 for a 4,132 per game average. That is a 380 or 10.13% per game increase over last season. Fantastic YoY progress and hopefully something we build on next year.

In terms of conference home game attendance we fared even better with one less conference game at the 'Pit. Last year we had 10 C-USA conference games at home with an average attendance of 3,975. This year, with 9 AAC conference home games we had an average attendance of 4,628. That's a 653 or 16.44% per game increase in conference games. Again, fantastic YoY progress.

Let's beat Rice and make a deep run in the conference tournament. Go Mean Green!

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Edited March 7 by keith