Sun Belt Basketball Attendance Update

[Mean Green Matt]

There have been a good amount of SBC home games since the last report 8 days ago. Winter Holiday games are winding down, and conference games are heating up. A guy on the SBC board informed me that Denver does not use the traditional semester system, so I decided to just forget it and not keep track of their winter holiday attendance because they are the odd ball.

Western Kentucky is still in the lead in overall attendance average, and with their 7300+ crowd against Louisville has the largest crowd of the year. The only school I see with a chance of topping this is North Texas, and even that is unlikely. We would basically have to fill the arena for a conference game. If we keep winning we have a shot at it though. MTSU and North Texas are 2nd and 3rd respectively, and will likely be in a dog fight the rest of the year for 2nd place. ASU (whose attendance is all over the place, and yes even though they are currently in 7th place) may have a shot at the top 3 finish as well if their conference success continues.

Lastly, Mike Jarvis and the FAU fighting owls...who many on here think are a contender for the SBC Championship, have once again fallen into last place, and are currently averaging less than 1000 fans per game. These numbers are accurate through the games on January 4, 2011.

When all is said and done, I am going to try and do some statistical analysis like the guys that wrote Freakonomics and find out what factors were most important to attendance, and which schools did better and worse than they "should have". It should be fun!

Edited January 5, 2011 by Mean Green Matt