define('DISALLOW_FILE_EDIT', true); define('DISALLOW_FILE_MODS', true); ncs tate – Rush The Court http://rushthecourt.net The Independent Voice of College Basketball Fri, 29 Apr 2011 00:44:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.9 http://rushthecourt.net http://rushthecourt.net/wp-content/mbp-favicon/RTC.jpg Rush The Court NCAA Attendance Figures: A Closer Examination http://rushthecourt.net/2011/04/27/ncaa-attendance-figures-a-closer-examination/ http://rushthecourt.net/2011/04/27/ncaa-attendance-figures-a-closer-examination/#comments Wed, 27 Apr 2011 20:31:57 +0000 http://rushthecourt.net/?p=37295

It’s always interesting to see the numbers when the NCAA releases its annual attendance figures for the prior season.  After all, ticket sales are still what drives the operating budget of most of these schools, and if a coach can’t consistently put fannies in the seats, he’s unlikely to have a job for very long.  The NCAA’s figures, though, mostly deal in the aggregate: A total of 27.6 million fans attending Division I men’s basketball games;  the usual suspects, Kentucky, Syracuse, North Carolina and Louisville, leading the way; the Big East cracking the three million mark with its sixteen-team [...]]]> http://rushthecourt.net/2011/04/27/ncaa-attendance-figures-a-closer-examination/feed/ 9