Sun Belt Basketball Attendance Update (1/19/11)

[Mean Green Matt]

These numbers are up to date through the ASU/Lamar game on Monday night. Western Kentucky is still in the overall lead, and still has the most highly attended game of the year (Louisville). Denver, with their 6200+ crowd for FIU has taken over the top spot for the most highly attended SBC conference game. North Texas is pushing MTSU for second place, averaging just under 200 fans less per game. Denver is also on the rise, looking like they may have a shot at the top 3 in attendance if they continue to be successful. FAU is still in last place.

The Winter Holiday numbers are FINAL. Western Kentucky wins that category. MTSU came close as the WKU attendances have declined significantly recently, but WKU held on. FAU once again came in last place.

ASU and UALR are leading in the SBC home attendance with North Texas just 400 or so behind. The shocker here is that WKU is all the way down in 5th place. AND...in the most unshocking piece of data, FIU leads SBC away game attendance. Apparently people enjoy yelling things at Isaiah Thomas.

[ColoradoEagle]

After tonight, we're just 50 away from leading SBC conference play. With our four remaining games this season all being on Thursday/Saturday, we might be the most attended in the conference.

[Mean Green Matt]

After tonight, we're just 50 away from leading SBC conference play. With our four remaining games this season all being on Thursday/Saturday, we might be the most attended in the conference.

We have a good shot at it for home conference games...we are just under 1,000 behind WKU for the overall average, so we have a shot at that as well. There were 3 really nice crowds tonight in the SBC. ULL had 5600+ for their game against ULM, and USA had 5400+ for their game against FIU. We were actually passed tonight by ULL (by a mere 5 people/game) in the conference game average. We do though sit alone in second place for overall average. I'll post the full attendance report sometime tomorrow, or early on Monday.