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Post by wsuraider09 on Feb 26, 2023 14:08:08 GMT -5
With the completion of the regular season last night, I've tabulated my annual analysis of the attendance results and trends below. As usual, all attendance figures were taken from official box scores. A few teams did not report attendance for exhibiton games, so those were ignored.
Games factored were games in home arenas only (not neutral sites). Schools with multiple home arenas (Milwaukee, Green Bay, IUPUI) had all their games included from either of their normal home arenas.
TOTAL ATTENDANCE:
WSU 52,697
NKU 50,079
YSU 42,226
OAK 37,558
CSU 29,050
MKE 27,960
DET 23,151
PFW 21,738
GB 20,696
IUPUI 15,527
RMU 14,394
TOTAL AVG PER GAME:
WSU 3764
NKU 3130
YSU 2815
OAK 2504
CSU 1816
DET 1781
MKE 1748
GB 1725
PFW 1449
IUPUI 1109
RMU 1107
AVG ATTENDANCE FOR LEAGUE GAMES ONLY:
WSU 3927
YSU 2963
NKU 2887
OAK 2522
MKE 1929
CSU 1848
DET 1812
GB 1787
PFW 1329
RMU 1214
IUPUI 925
TOP 10 ATTENDED HOME GAMES:
NKU vs Cincinnati 8503
WSU vs NKU 5659
WSU vs GB 5418
WSU vs DET 4488
NKU vs MKE 4466
YSU vs Grace Chr. 4451
YSU vs MKE 4425
GB vs IUPUI 4290
YSU vs DET 4187
IUPUI vs Spalding 4114
TOP 10 ATTENDED CONFERENCE GAMES:
WSU vs NKU 5659
WSU vs GB 5418
WSU vs DET 4488
NKU vs MKE 4466
YSU vs MKE 4425
GB vs IUPUI 4290
YSU vs DET 4187
WSU vs CSU 4054
OAK vs DET 3942
NKU vs WSU 3669
TOP 10 SERIES (HIGHER ATTENDANCE LISTED FIRST):
WSU/NKU 9328
WSU/GB 7827
WSU/DET 7595
WSU/CSU 6956
OAK/DET 6495
YSU/MKE 6378
YSU/OAK 6143
NKU/MKE 6064
YSU/NKU 5952
OAK/NKU 5829
TOTAL ROAD SHOW UP (CONF ONLY):
DET 23,686
MKE 23,464
GB 22,232
NKU 22,141
WSU 21,946
CSU 21,591
IUPUI 20,625
OAK 20,048
PFW 19,711
YSU 18,597
RMU 17,597
CHANGES OVER PRIOR YEAR (CONF ONLY):
YSU +67.51%
RMU +48.39%
IUPUI +26.23%
WSU +17.61%
NKU +13.22%
DET +8.65%
GB +6.44%
PFW -3.09%
MKE -8.5%
CSU -8.86%
OAK -17.21%
CHANGES OVER PRIOR YEAR (ALL GAMES):
YSU +66.77%
IUPUI +64.55%
NKU +30.8%
RMU +24.27%
PFW +14.29%
WSU +12.66%
GB +2.97%
DET -4.36%
CSU -7.6%
OAK -11.68%
MKE -21.11%
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Post by keithfromxenia on Feb 26, 2023 15:52:00 GMT -5
Ok, 09, you have piqued my curiosity. UIPUI averaged about 1100 for their home games and got 4400 for Spaulding?? And who the heck is Spaulding?
And YSU averaged 2800 for home games and got 4400 for Grace Christian??
Those seem like truly strange numbers??
But a great job putting all that together. BTW did WSU average numbers include our two exhibition games??
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Post by wsuraider09 on Feb 26, 2023 16:44:41 GMT -5
So I know the IUPUI Spaulding game was a daytime "education" game where they had a bunch of elementary school kids in attendance, so yeah...certainly odd, but a few years ago we played them in that game.
The YSU game appears to be the same story. An 11am weekday game, though I don't see the promotion called out on their schedule, so I can't say exactly what it was, but it must have been for local students.
WSU does publish attendance figures for all of our home games as do most HL schools; a few schools don't (NKU, GB, MKE, RMU).
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Post by raiders93 on Feb 26, 2023 18:26:32 GMT -5
Thanks as always for putting this together. IUPUI seems to always get half of their attendance for the season on that education day.
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Post by Raider3G on Feb 26, 2023 21:17:11 GMT -5
Really appreciate WSURaider09 putting this together as usual. With the end of the season, I wanted to see how this year stacks and take some inspiration from the breakdown of attendance to put this year in perspective of other WSU D-I seasons. May not be the best place for this, so apologies in advance:
1) This is now 36 years of WSU at the D-I level. Including this year, 26 of those the Raiders finished .500 or better.
2) Assuming WSU beats UWGB, that means WSU has won 18 games or more in 19 of their D-I seasons
3) Since joining the HL, WSU is 279-212 in league play (not counting HL tourney). In 29 seasons in the HL, WSU has finished fourth or higher 19 times. Half of the ten years outside the top four occurred from 1994-2000. After that, three of the other times WSU was outside the top 4 the team still finished .500+ in HL play.
4) Trey Calvin has really put together quite the career and if he doesn't come back we should definitely be thankful we saw him develop the way he did. Assuming he hits his scoring average in at least one HL tourney game this year, he is now top 10 in the following categories in terms of career stats:
- Points scored
-Minutes Played
-Field Goals Made
-Field Goal Attempts
-3 point FG made
-3 pt FG attempts
-Assists and assists per game
-Steals
Goes to show a major reason why WSU leads the HL in attendance and its the winning tradition we all come to expect and appreciate (and sometimes may take for granted)
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Post by wsuraider09 on Feb 27, 2023 8:21:58 GMT -5
Really appreciate WSURaider09 putting this together as usual. With the end of the season, I wanted to see how this year stacks and take some inspiration from the breakdown of attendance to put this year in perspective of other WSU D-I seasons. May not be the best place for this, so apologies in advance: Goes to show a major reason why WSU leads the HL in attendance and its the winning tradition we all come to expect and appreciate (and sometimes may take for granted) What's interesting too is that you look at teams atop the league this year...Look at a team like Milwaukee which has had what I'd consider a below-average decade. They've had two winning seasons in the last decade. All of a sudden, new coach, new look Panthers. They turn things around this season, and where are their fans? They're not showing up to games. Obviously their last two coaches were big busts, the fans don't seem to love their AD Amanda Braun. They get this new coach, they get hot, and the fans still don't come out. Though I'll admit, the attendance change might not be incredibly fair. The majority of the league's teams saw attendance dip last year after the "no fan" year, and that is likely largely due to the concerns over Covid. However, some teams have rebounded well this year, and others not so much. I tell you what though, if the trends continue, we won't be long for ruling the roost so to speak, as NKU and YSU both had strong turnouts this year. One last interesting stat of note I just kind of fell onto this morning is home records. Historically, WSU has been very good at home, though that seems to have taken a blow the last number of years. You're almost guaranteed to win this league if you win every home game, and split your road games. Every team above us had a better home record than we did. Winning this league starts at home. Home Records in League Games Only: CSU 9-1, only loss to Milwaukee/ MKE 8-2, losses to WSU & GB NKU 7-3 RMU 7-3 YSU 7-3 OAK 6-4 DET 5-5 WSU 5-5 PFW 4-6 IUPUI 2-8 GB 1-9 |
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Post by dopetoast on Feb 27, 2023 8:56:16 GMT -5
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Post by wsuraider09 on Feb 27, 2023 9:19:46 GMT -5
I still wish and think our average game attendance could be higher, but it is nice to know that we top the league pretty much every year (since Butler left). Anytime there are more than even 5,000 people in the Nutter Center the atmosphere is great. The NKU game this year was a blast. I wish that happened more often, but still glad it happens at all. Things could be worse. Another thing that will be interesting to watch is how the schedule aligns with the proposed changes of dropping the travel partner format and if that affects attendance at all. That could mean you have a week with a road game and a home game instead of two of one. That could be useful for attendance if there was only one Raider home game a week instead of two one and none the next...if you were looking to attend a game, you wouldn't have two to choose from...but if we have a home game say on a Wednesday or a Thursday and then a road game on a Saturday or Sunday, you can bet that won't be a well attended game being on a school night. Hopefully the league does a good job with balancing the schedule and hopefully doesn't play good rivalry games on weeknights. |
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Post by kingnebwsu on Feb 27, 2023 20:30:20 GMT -5
I still wish and think our average game attendance could be higher, but it is nice to know that we top the league pretty much every year (since Butler left). Anytime there are more than even 5,000 people in the Nutter Center the atmosphere is great. The NKU game this year was a blast. I wish that happened more often, but still glad it happens at all. Things could be worse. That second half run was one of the highlights of the year. Felt great. |
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Post by wsuraider09 on Feb 28, 2023 21:34:33 GMT -5
First round games:
GB @ WSU 2597
PFW @ DET 1663
IUPUI @ RMU 1214
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Post by wsuraider09 on Mar 2, 2023 21:58:19 GMT -5
Quarterfinals:
YSU vs DET 5584
MKE vs WSU 2951
NKU vs OAK 2672
CSU vs RMU 2515
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Post by jerrygball on Mar 4, 2023 10:50:28 GMT -5
I didn't know YSU's arena even held 5,000 good for them!
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Post by wsuraider09 on Mar 4, 2023 11:06:19 GMT -5
I didn't know YSU's arena even held 5,000 good for them! Listed capacity is 6,300. The arena is kind of a bit unusual. You almost only see the lower bowl on the TV feeds. They put the students up on the wings in bleacher style seating that start at the hgight of the basket, not at the floor. What you really don't see are old, dated wood bleachers that go up above the nice premium-seating areas. I don't know the actual count, but I remember those wooden bleachers going up quite a ways and I would wager a guess they have more bleacher seats than they have chairbacks, but I haven't been to Beegly since I was a student, so don't quote me on any of that. |
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Post by jerrygball on Mar 5, 2023 1:35:34 GMT -5
That's interesting wsuraider, I've never been there, yeah on TV it looks like my old high school gym with about 2,000 seats so I wouldn't have guessed they had that much. I thought Purdue Fort Wayne looks pretty small too on TV, but couldn't really tell.
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