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[QUOTE="omniorange, post: 2727391, member: 636"]
My understanding is that attendance is on a "per session" basis, and outside of the championship game or the first day play-in round, it's normally two games per session.  The per session attendance difference between the Big Ten and the Big East at MSG was 15,165 for the B1G and 18,790 for the BE or a gap of over 3.6K per session which might partially be explained by the B1G tourney being played a week earlier.

The ACC at Barclays was the true anomaly, since each "session" was for the entire day rather than have them split up the 2nd round day and the quarterfinals into two sessions on each day.  I suspect this might have been due to the ACC being unsure how well their fans would travel to NYC, unlike let's say DC and the Verizon Center where the usual set-up applied.

With the Verizon Center the Big Ten apparently didn't even report attendance figures for the initial day, but for the remaining 4 days their attendance per session average was a meager 13,240 (again without that first day totals being factored in), while the year previously even with the lower first day session total included, the ACC average 17,800 per session, while not counting the first day total the average attendance per session was 19,550.

Cheers,
Neil
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