60 percent of 2014 CSU season tickets were from Fort Collins

What sport CSU is playing is irrelevant. When it comes to purchasing season tickets, the majority of Ram fans come from Fort Collins.

Across the school's four ticketed sports (football, volleyball, and men's and women's basketball), 60 percent of season tickets were tied to addresses in Fort Collins. The Denver metro area, with 2.7 million people and more than 47,000 Colorado State University alumni, accounts for 11 percent of the total ticket count.

Take football out of the mix, and those percentages are 71 percent from Fort Collins and 4 percent from Denver.

Last month, CSU assisted The Coloradoan by providing the cities and ZIP codes of every season ticket holder. Online, you can find the main story from this request, where we dive into the football data. Here is other information gleaned.

Since ticket sales are ongoing for all sports — with basketball season four months away — for apples-to-apples comparisons, 2014-15 will be our sample year.

Men's basketball

Season-ticket sales spiked to 2,449 in 2013-14 following the Rams' NCAA tournament run, but then dipped by 213 last season. Of last year's 2,236 season ticket holders, 1,659 (74 percent) were from Fort Collins. The year prior, it was 70 percent.

Only 118 (5 percent) came from the Denver metro area.

Eighteen are from out of state, with the farthest distance for any fan at 1,506 miles away in Baltimore. The same ZIP code (21230) also holds season tickets in football and women's basketball.

Volleyball

Saying season ticket sales spiked for the CSU volleyball team last year would be an understatement.

The program had 1,106 season ticket sales; a year-over-year increase of 312.

It's again a Fort Collins-centric audience, with 833 of those tickets (75 percent) purchased by local residents. The Denver metro are accounted for 25, or 2 percent.

Nine are from out of state, including the only three international season ticket purchases at CSU, all coming from Toronto. Sophomore Alexandra Poletto is from Toronto and the same address has renewed its season tickets for 2015.

Women's basketball

Last season was a four-year high for CSU women's basketball season-ticket sales, reaching 794.

Eighty percent of those (636) are tied to Fort Collins with another 61 tickets — or another 7.7 percent — coming from the surrounding Northern Colorado communities of Loveland, Windsor, Wellington, Timnath, Laporte, Bellvue and Berthoud.

The Denver metro area accounted for 30 season tickets (3.8 percent).

Eight season tickets were purchased by out-of-state fans with the closest being Kingwood, Texas (917 miles), and the farthest Fort Lauderdale, Florida (1,744 miles).

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