Attendance, for the most part, has steadied out through February, as school is in session, and weather has been fairly consistent, preventing low attendances across college basketball. This week, the numbers were up around 3% over last week, and the lowest attended game still had over 300 people, which should drop off as we get closer to the end of the season when fans decide to truly mail it in.

Number of games drawing fewer than 1,000 fans: 34

Here are the 3 lowest attended games of last week:

3. Bryant vs Sacred Heart – Bryant isn’t even good enough to make their own conference tournament. Their season will end on the 27th against LIU-Brooklyn, and the only people who may care will be the 431 who showed up to see the Bulldogs get stomped 74-57 by the Sacred Heart Pioneers. In fact, this is Bryant’s third time on the list, so congratulations to Bulldogs fans!

2. McNeese State vs SE Louisiana – I’ve already beaten the “Worst Looking Arena in College Basketball” so McNeese State needs to stop making this list. Only 350 showed up to see the two below average Southland teams battle it out. Southeast Louisiana took it home 79-76, leaving the poor Lake Charles residents on the wrong side of the intrastate battle with their Hammond counterparts. I have no doubt it was a joyful ride home on I-10 for the SE Louisiana Lions fans. An action shot:

1. New Orleans vs Texas A&M – Corpus Christi – And finally, elsewhere in the Southland: The New Orleans Privateers hosted the Texas A&M – Corpus Christi Islanders (Some say the school is a little TACCI. ). Despite that TAMU-CC (Seriously, their damn abbreviation is 50% longer than Iona or Yale’s full names) is sitting only a handful of games behind Stephen F. Austin for the Southland lead, a mere 332 showed up to see the eventual Southland 2 seed win 65-57. Even with terrible basketball and no chance of a postseason for either team, 332 dedicated folks in the Crescent City. Good for them. And of course, your action shot of the week!

And now, as always, the miscellany:

Biggest group of people to see a loss at home this week: Syracuse (vs Pitt) 28,696.

Smallest group of people to see a win at home this week: St. Peter’s (vs Manhattan), 473.

Smallest Power Conference attendance: Washington State (vs Stanford), 2,711.

Smallest Power Conference home win attendance: Missouri (vs South Carolina), 5,017.

Average attendance this week: 4,975, up 159 (3.3%) over last week.

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