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[QUOTE="OttoMets, post: 1620593, member: 716"]
Lunchtime fun on a slow workday:

Everyone sees that attendance is down, but I didn't realize it had a chance to be historically low. Did a little follow-up research on the question of smallest home conference crowds at the Dome. With a couple gaps, here's the list:

1) 14,322 for Rutgers on Wednesday 2 January 2002
2) 14,367 for Seton Hall on Wednesday 16 February 1983
3) 16,305 for Clemson on Tuesday 5 January [B]2016[/B]
4) 16,336 for Connecticut on Wednesday 2 February 1983
5) 16,770 for Seton Hall on Friday 30 December 1983

There's a small gap here (I can't find 10 box scores for the first two seasons of the Dome, though most of the missing games were on weekends during the spring semester and it's fair to assume that they drew better than 17,000, the lowest 1980-1982 crowd I found).

If it looks unusually empty tomorrow night, we'll probably bump Seton Hall and join the 1983 team with two bottom-five crowds for a Dome conference game. Wonder how long we'll continue this trend; maybe we've seen the last season ticket price bump for a couple years.
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