

Numbers have somewhat bounced back this week after the winter storm that shook the east coast a couple of weeks ago, overall average attendance is slightly up this week. Where the attendance changes are mostly seen are on the bottom of the list, however, as fewer teams drew sub 1000 compared to last week (only 16 this week, 33 last week) and the lowest attended game of the week still had more than 400.

Number of games drawing fewer than 1,000 fans: 16

Here are the 3 lowest attended games of last week:

3. Fairleigh-Dickinson vs St Francis (PA) 523 showed up to see the Knights of FDU, conveniently located in both Teaneck AND Hackensack, NJ. In fact, you’re never far from a Fairleigh-Dickinson campus, as they have another additional location in New Jersey, one in Vancouver, and one in Southeast England. Despite their global reach, they drew almost half a thousand in a nailbiter 86-82 win over St. Francis (of Pennsylvania). FDU currently leads the NEC in a tie with Wagner and Mount St. Mary’s. St Francis (PA) is a game back. Behind them is St Francis (Brooklyn), in case you were wondering about all the other St. Francis teams around. And in case you were wondering, the student section was pumped:

2. Coppin State vs NC A&T – Only 443 showed up for some #MEACtion as Coppin State took on NC A&T. Both teams are middling in the conference, so not much to be seen here, but those who did show up at least got to see the Eagles take the victory at home:

1. McNeese State vs Incarnate Word – And the winner this week is in the Southland, where 401 showed up at Lake Charles, Louisiana’s ugliest arena (and maybe the ugliest in the state, who knows!) to see the Cowboys take the win from the relatively-new-to-D1 Cardinals of Incarnate Word by a score of 79-76. Not sure what else the residents of Lake Charles could be doing, having been to a charming suburb of the city named Sulphur. Quaint. Anyway, that’s it, the highest-lowest attended game of the year so far. The records, they keep a-shatterin’.

Here’s the miscellany for the week:

Biggest group of people to see a loss at home this week: Ohio State (vs Maryland) 16,592.

Smallest group of people to see a win at home this week: McNeese State (vs Incarnate Word), 401.

Smallest Power Conference attendance: Boston College (vs Florida State), 2,074.

Smallest Power Conference attendance at a home win: Arizona State (vs Oregon State), 6,074.

Average attendance this week: 5,032 (up 303 (6.4%) over last week)

And as always, your full attendance numbers for the week: