2011 NCAA Basketball Attendance: Boston College 11th in ACC, Remains Outside Top 100 Nationally
by Brian Favat on Apr 27, 2011 3:34 PM EDT
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PrintThe NCAA recently released attendance figures for the 2010-2011 basketball season. In 17 home games this season, Boston College averaged 5,324 fans a game, which was an ever-so-slight increase from the previous season.
Here's a look at the last 10 years of BC basketball home hoops attendance (number of home games in parenthesis):
2010-11: 5,324 (17)
2009-10: 5,317 (17)
2008-09: 5,548 (19)
2007-08: 5,778 (19)
2006-07: 6,916 (18)
2005-06: 7,213 (16)
2004-05: 6,440 (17)
2003-04: 5,243 (16)
2002-03: 6,133 (14)
2001-02: 6,602 (16)
As you can see, this year's 5,324 average broke a streak of five straight years of declining attendance which unfortunately coincided with the program's move to the ACC. BC got a big boost to attendance in 2005-06 -- partly due to the halo effect of the move to the ACC and partly due to a really, really great team that year. But attendance has been on the decline ever since, so I suppose any uptick in attendance, however slight, is welcome.
What's interesting about this year's final attendance number is that if you exclude the Eagles' final home game against Northwestern in the NIT (listed attendance of just 2,765), BC's average goes up to 5,484 a game, which is over 100 attendees better year-over-year. Not bad, not bad ...
Sadly though, for the second straight season, BC is outside the top 100 programs in the country in terms of home attendance. Mid-major Marshall checks in at #100 this year, averaging 5,524 a game over 18 games.
In the ACC, BC's home attendance figure was only better than Miami, who averaged just 4,763 a game. Of course raw attendance numbers aren't a perfect measure of fan interest, and I'd be much more interested in percent capacity numbers, but the NCAA doesn't release these.
D1scourse's Patrick Stevens has some additional notes on the attendance figures, including a look at the year-over-year delta among ACC schools. BC's 0.13% increase was just middle of the pack in the conference.
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It did feel like more people (mainly alums) went to games this year than last year…
Hockey was pretty nuts this year in terms of attendance. Most games in the student section were packed.
next year
I don’t think that ever so slight increase will continue if Reggie does in fact take off… the fan interest that the coaching change was supposed to produce is definitely still very much to be determined
Seriously
Wake Forest and Georgia Tech had a higher attendance than us thats kinda embarrasing
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by TheSpecialOne on Apr 27, 2011 7:52 PM EDT via mobile reply actions
i don't know
they are both basketball schools first. at least wake is and I would probably say gtech is too. so if that is the main attraction on campus then it at least makes a bit more sense as to why their numbers are higher….though they both had very poor seasons, especially wake
just trying to justify this in my head somehow
Gotta look at stadium capacity
Tech’s Alexander Memorial Coliseum seats 9,191, which isn’t very far off Conte. But Tech can at least draw in some fans of the opposing ACC teams whose fan bases are a bit closer to Atlanta (or who have big alumni pockets living in ATL) — Clemson, Wake Forest, Tobacco Road schools.
Wake’s stadium capacity is nearly double that of Conte Forum’s, so while they outdrew BC, the Deacons attendance is actually pretty terrible.
BC Interruption, SBN's Boston College Eagles blog
Year-over-year change
Georgia Tech and Wake attendance still fell off dramatically year over year.
Wake Forest saw a decrease of 22.3 percent from 2010. Tech saw a 23.6 percent decrease.
Trend will probably continue to be negative next year for both programs, as Tech breaks in a new coach and Wake’s Bzdelik struggles through year 2.
BC Interruption, SBN's Boston College Eagles blog
Student Attendance
Couldn’t have averaged more than 1k this year…pathetic.
They need to stop selling season tickets to students. They throw them in their desk and forget about them until Duke/UNC roll around
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