22,000 tickets already sold for Marquette

[Orangeyes]

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[cto]

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Without students. Wow. If students were back, it would be a heckuva large crowd for an early January game. Is there a sort of "orange fever" in Syracuse this season?

 

[rrlbees]

Without students. Wow. If students were back, it would be a heckuva large crowd for an early January game. Is there a sort of "orange fever" in Syracuse this season?

Same as SHU. 24K without students. People want to take a look at this #1 team.

 

[Cuseman78]

Same as SHU. 24K without students. People want to take a look at this #1 team.

I would imagine this would surpass the highest attendance of the year (SHU had 25k+) this weekend. Really impressive considering the students aren't back in town for another week or two. This may turn out to be our highest attendance year in many, many years (which obviously makes sense).

 

[Orangeyes]

I would imagine this would surpass the highest attendance of the year (SHU had 25k+) this weekend. Really impressive considering the students aren't back in town for another week or two. This may turn out to be our highest attendance year in many, many years (which obviously makes sense).

I long for the days when we used to lead the nation.

 

[MattyL]

I long for the days when we used to lead the nation.

Was just going to say the same thing, OE. Just looked it up... we last led the nation in 2005. Before that, it was mid-90s. I think we take the crown this year.

 

[cto]

I long for the days when we used to lead the nation.

Louisville sells out its new arena with some regularity,,,,, and our OCC attendance is weak by comparison. If we start getting close to 30k a game in the Big East games, we should overtake them because they are capacity-limited.

They currently are about 30,000 ahead of us in total attendance, but their capacity is around 22,700.

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[BlackKnight76]

That Pitt game, when most of the student body will be back, is going to be rowdy if we're still undefeated.

 

[slidingdown]

That Pitt game, when most of the student body will be back, is going to be rowdy if we're still undefeated.

I would hope it would be rowdy regardless. I really, really, really, really, really want to beat Pitt this year. Really.

 

[OttoMets]

I would imagine this would surpass the highest attendance of the year (SHU had 25k+) this weekend. Really impressive considering the students aren't back in town for another week or two. This may turn out to be our highest attendance year in many, many years (which obviously makes sense).

I was scoping out Ticketmaster (which we know doesn't always accurately reflect sales) yesterday and the same thought occurred to me. We had some of our smallest crowds ever during the early season (though official sales were normal), but the Seton Hall crowd surprised me - a ton of non-regulars and a really huge crowd for a bad-weather weeknight (albeit during a holiday week) during break.

UConn and West Virginia are going to be huge (no more seats available west of the 50-yard-line for UConn), Louisville probably will be (if we keep winning), and Georgetown and Pittsburgh (for which students will be back) always draw well on weeknights.

I imagine Marquette and Providence will see larger crowds than the Seton Hall game, and those are the last two non-student games. All that remains is a weeknight South Florida game.

We're going to have huge numbers this year if we don't rack up a lot of losses.

 

[cpatrocks]

I was scoping out Ticketmaster (which we know doesn't always accurately reflect sales) yesterday and the same thought occurred to me. We had some of our smallest crowds ever during the early season (though official sales were normal), but the Seton Hall crowd surprised me - a ton of non-regulars and a really huge crowd for a bad-weather weeknight (albeit during a holiday week) during break.

UConn and West Virginia are going to be huge (no more seats available west of the 50-yard-line for UConn), Louisville probably will be (if we keep winning), and Georgetown and Pittsburgh (for which students will be back) always draw well on weeknights.

I imagine Marquette and Providence will see larger crowds than the Seton Hall game, and those are the last two non-student games. All that remains is a weeknight South Florida game.

We're going to have huge numbers this year if we don't rack up a lot of losses.

I can confirm that I will be there for all the above games, if that helps!

 

[Orangeyes]

Was just going to say the same thing, OE. Just looked it up... we last led the nation in 2005. Before that, it was mid-90s. I think we take the crown this year.

In 2011 Kentucky was #1. They played 15 home games and averaged 23,603 per contest

Syracuse, who was #2 , on the other hand, played 19 home games and averaged 22, 312 or 1291 fewer fans per game

Syracuse was also #2 in total attendance with 423,924

#1? Why it was the state of Kentucky's other team known as the Louisville Cardinals where in 21 games they drew 458,463 for an average of 21,832 which was 480 less a game than Syracuse and 1771 less hated rival Kentucky

Our future big rivals in the ACC North Carolina (19,144 in 15 games) and Duke (9314 in 17 games) were ranked #4 and 48 respectfully

How lucky we are to have the Carrier Dome as 265,586 more fans could view the games in person than the Blue Devils fans could at Cameron Indoor.

Anyone have a link to this years national attendance statistics?

 

[44gk44]

Quick attendance math:

So far,

SU has 11 home dates for 226,676 or 20,607 avg.
UK has 10 home dates for 232,663 or 23,266 avg.
UL has 12 home dates for 254223 or 21,185 avg.

Assuming we would need 23,500 to have a chance,
19 x 23,500 = 446,500 (-226,676) = 219,824 or 27,478 avg in 8 games.

Doable with some very big games still there.

 

[OttoMets]

Quick attendance math:

So far,

SU has 11 home dates for 226,676 or 20,607 avg.
UK has 10 home dates for 232,663 or 23,266 avg.
UL has 12 home dates for 254223 or 21,185 avg.

Assuming we would need 23,500 to have a chance,
19 x 23,500 = 446,500 (-226,676) = 219,824 or 27,478 avg in 8 games.

Doable with some very big games still there.

Thanks, 44. So the following (pretty reasonable if we don't run off any consecutive losses or have an unusual weather event) would get us close (exactly 27,000 over 8 games):

Marquette: 25,000

Providence: 25,000

Pittsburgh: 25,000

West Virginia: 30,000

Connecticut: 32,000

Georgetown: 25,000

South Florida: 23,000

Louisville: 31,000

 

[310Pigpen]

what is the highest attendance for this year? I know we had it for the Florida game but I don't know if its been broken.

 

[OttoMets]

what is the highest attendance for this year? I know we had it for the Florida game but I don't know if its been broken.

Unlikely as it may seem, 25 and low change showed up for Seton Hall last week.

 

[upperdeck]

wonder what we would avg if the locked the number down to 25k max. would more people buy seasons knowing they had less of a chance to cherry pick certain games.

 

[cpatrocks]

we need another Break The Record night!!

 

[310Pigpen]

we need another Break The Record night!!

I'm thinking louisville could be that night.