Basketball attendance trends

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#1

Looked up the numbers since BWA was built as reported to the NCAA. It’s kinda interesting.

Nolan’s Monster:
1994 – 20,134 (4th nationally)
1995 – 20,081 (4th)
1996 – 19,261 (5th)
1997 – 18,196 (5th)
1998 – 19,406 (4th)
1999 – 18,294 (5th)
2000 – 17,807 (6th); now it’s starting to slip just a bit
2001 – 16,225 (9th)
2002 – 15,065 (13th)

Stan
2003 – 14,790 (14th)
2004 – 14,792 (13th)
2005 – 15,788 (9th)
2006 – 14,958 (12th)
2007 – 16,720 (9th)

Pel
2008 – 17,149 (9th)
2009 – 16,043 (11th)
2010 – 13,182 (25th). Oops
2011 – 11,884 (29th) Buh-bye, Pel

Mike
2012 – 13,096 (23rd)
2013 – 13,750 (20th)
2014 – 14,023 (21st)
2015 – 15,519 (11th)
2016 – 14,879 (12th)
2017 – 15,247 (12th)
2018 – 16,181 (9th)
2019 – 15,278 (11th)

Muss
2020 – 15,487 (12th)

NCAA hasn’t released 2021 figures, and of course a lot of schools didn’t have fans at all due to COVID, but I wouldn’t be surprised if we led the nation at 4,284 per game.

For 2022? I don’t expect sellouts but we may be over 17,000, possibly well over.

#2

We need to see good basketball attendance. We need to recover the covid revenue losses asap. Getting 17k or so for +/- 20 games can do a lot. Be nice to sell out RRS, too.

#3

Interesting to me that the best and the worst years since Nolan were both under Pel.

Maybe by this time next year “Stan” will be Mr. Umude around here, not the new HC at Eastern Michigan.

Maybe I can buy tickets, get to use one game and put the rest on Stubhub.

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#4

2006-2008 was the best basketball played by the Hogs from the time Nolan was fired until midway through the Mike era.

Pel’s first year there were some really nice crowds, like the one when Florida came to town and we blew the doors off them.

#5

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