Guess the attendance

[OTRMUSKIE]

so looks like Memphis had the most people at their game with 8k. Indiana had 5k a long with Creighton. Clemson and Texas both had around 1500k So what do you think X gets?

[UCGRAD4X]

1500K! Did they hold that in Meteor Crater?

I'm planning to add by fat a** to that total. Let's beat 8k at least (cause 1500K is a bit out of reach)

[xu koop scoop]

6975

[xumuskies08]

~5,000. I went on the ticket site and the lower level looks mostly bought up, but the upper level looks nearly untouched. Maybe a bunch of folks will but at the doors, but I tend to doubt it.

[GoMuskies]

I would have expected around 7,500 before I read '08's post. I'd be surprised if the turnout is as low as 5,000, but I've been surprised before!

[xumuskies08]

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[xu82]

1500K! Did they hold that in Meteor Crater?

I'm planning to add by fat a** to that total. Let's beat 8k at least (cause 1500K is a bit out of reach)

Pessimist!

[coasterville95]

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grandstands 3 minutes til tip.


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[coasterville95]

But in better news. They are selling beer tonight. I thought that was forbidden in tournament games.


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[IM4X]

Pretty sure no one will get this one right.

Just a hunch it will be somewhere between

Option #1

5 people

and Option #2

1600k (or 1,600,000)

[bjf123]

5769


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[X-ROX]

5769


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Freakin’ sad!! Embarrassing turnout. I used to think X fans were awesome at supporting their team. I was there and I don’t even have any other affiliation with the university except being a long time fan. Just sad.....

[X-ROX]

I guess $10 tickets and free parking just isn’t worth watching your team play in any game other than “the tournament “. Sad

[X-band '01]

Freakin’ sad!! Embarrassing turnout. I used to think X fans were awesome at supporting their team. I was there and I don’t even have any other affiliation with the university except being a long time fan. Just sad.....

That's a good crowd by this year's NIT standards. UT drew about 1,700 people for their game against South Dakota State. Would love to see a Sunday game and a Xavier takeover of the Erwin Center.

[SemajParlor]

Thought'd we get a little more, to be honest. If we knock of Texas we'll have a chance for another shot.

[X-band '01]

True - a home game would be against either Colorado or Norfolk State.

[XU 87]

Freakin’ sad!! Embarrassing turnout. I used to think X fans were awesome at supporting their team. I was there and I don’t even have any other affiliation with the university except being a long time fan. Just sad.....

Please stop. Have you seen attendance of some of the other games?

[fellahmuskie]

I was there too. I thought it was a great crowd. Everybody there was invested and I think the players really felt the love. The attendance number maybe have been small, but the atmosphere was better than plenty of regular season games with bigger crowds.

[X-ROX]

Please stop. Have you seen attendance of some of the other games?

Been to all home games and all had better attendance

[X-band '01]

He was talking about attendance at other NIT games, not Xavier's regular season home games.

[X-ROX]

Been to all home games and all had better attendance

Probably misunderstood your question, but I don’t care about other venues . X fans always take pride in their fans support, so where was it tonight?

[XU 87]

Probably misunderstood your question, but I don’t care about other venues . X fans always take pride in their fans support, so where was it tonight?

I haven’t checked every game, but of the 5 I have checked, X had better attendance. IU is the closest at 5400.

[KabeX]

I prob should stay out of this but ... my guess is we had a far better turnout than most other home games. It's the N I frickin T after all. And there's a team playing right now just up the road that we should have at the very least swapped places with. I'm hope our game in Austin has at least double the 127 drunk college kids who showed up last night. Ugh.

[X-band '01]

NC State had a sellout at Reynolds Coliseum - 5,500 in attendance for that game. Their regular arena (PNC Arena) was unavailable because of a Carolina Hurricanes home game.

[Juice]

Probably misunderstood your question, but I don’t care about other venues . X fans always take pride in their fans support, so where was it tonight?

Texas has 1700 or so at their game. It's one of the largest schools in the country. X on the other hand is not. Were you there? If so, great. If not, hush.

[D-West & PO-Z]

I was there too. I thought it was a great crowd. Everybody there was invested and I think the players really felt the love. The attendance number maybe have been small, but the atmosphere was better than plenty of regular season games with bigger crowds.

Agree, I was there too. Those who were there were loud and into it, especially in the second half. I would have guessed there was 6500 there.

[KabeX]

Agree, I was there too. Those who were there were loud and into it, especially in the second half. I would have guessed there was 6500 there.

It's all relative. And the X fanbase and support is relatively superior to 90% of all D1 programs. And my relative estimate is probably relativeoy low. I might be slightly relatively buzzed right now but the comment about our fan support is not relatively but absolutely wrong.

Wow. I feel relatively better now. Thank you.

[OTRMUSKIE]

Yeah I thought that was a great turnout. Almost 6k. If they get a 3rd game I would expect to see closer to 8k.

[usfldan]

I would have loved to have had more, but there was three days notice for a mid-week game, with no base of season tickets automatically built in (at least that was my impression- season ticket holders had to buy the ticket extra instead of it being included). The vast majority of the tickets sold were in the lower bowl, which helped the atmosphere. I thought they did fine.

[xumuskies08]

Would more fans have been better? Yes. But only 2 first round games (Nebraska and Memphis) had higher attendance than Xavier. The crowd looked good and sounded good on TV. NIT games never draw well, unless fans of the home team view postseason basketball as a rare treat instead of a step down from the norm (like Xavier fans do). Hopefully they beat Texas and come back with a chance to go back to MSG on the line. I’m sure that crowd would be bigger than tonight’s.

[slysyl]

I was at the game , a lot of new faces by me. Thought about 5600. A lot of Toledo fans ; good game for $20 .

[nuts4xu]

I'm looking forward to our next home game in this tournament, after we beat Texas. That 1999 NIT game against Princeton, played on St Patrck's day, to send us to the finals in NYC was one of my favorite memories. The Gardens was barely half full, but it was a great game and great crowd.

Ironically enough, we started that NIT by playing Toledo AT Toledo and barely beat the Rockets by 2 points. We beat Wake Forest in the second round at home, to advance to the Princeton game

Xavier Nation will always support the team, and you can't guage the loyalty of our fanbase by looking at the first NIT game we've played since the 1999-2000. We are used to the NCAA tournament, and the NIT is not the BIG dance. I am sure a lot of our fans are feeling a little out of sorts with the situation.

[bleedXblue]

This tournament should be all about getting fans in the seats. No way does Texas deserve another home game after selling 1700 tickets. NIT should reserve the right to move games after the first round to wherever they think they can get maximum return and improving the product and experience for all.

[muethibp]

That used to be the way it was. There was something to it.

[klark]

I am not a season ticket holder as my kids have my going 100 directions, but as a fan for the last 30 years I jumped at the chance to get tickets for a game. We sat 5 rows behind the bench and my daughter could have not been more thrilled to be there as was I. My opinion is it should not matter where they play, support them like every other game.

[Blue Blooded-05]

NC State had a sellout at Reynolds Coliseum - 5,500 in attendance for that game. Their regular arena (PNC Arena) was unavailable because of a Carolina Hurricanes home game.

Not a bad way to sell out. We shoulda held the game at Schmidt Field House

[XU 87]

This tournament should be all about getting fans in the seats. No way does Texas deserve another home game after selling 1700 tickets. NIT should reserve the right to move games after the first round to wherever they think they can get maximum return and improving the product and experience for all.

I was thinking that the NIT should have a new rule- After the first round, if the teams playing each other have had previous home games, the team with the higher attendance gets the home game.

[X-band '01]

That's the way it used to be. The rule as it is right now is meant to reward teams like UNC-Greensboro who are higher seeded but wouldn't have gotten home games otherwise.

You could have debated beforehead the overall merits of Texas vs. Xavier, but it is what it is. This is still a very winnable road game in what will be a sterile environment.

[UCGRAD4X]

Even though the crown was less than 6K - the enthusiasm and support was on a 9 or 10K scale (esp. considering it was a game against the Rockets).

[Snipe]

Even though the crown was less than 6K - the enthusiasm and support was on a 9 or 10K scale (esp. considering it was a game against the Rockets).


Even though the crown was less than 6K - the enthusiasm and support was on a 9 or 10K scale (esp. considering it was a game against the Rockets).

It was all real fans, and 6k real fans is what moves the world.

Proud to be in attendance. Glad to still be playing

If we were in the NCAA, we would have made it out of the first weekend. This team peaked one day too late.

I would love to beat Texas. Don't Mess with Texas? I wanna mess with Texas.

Bring it on.

[UCGRAD4X]

It was all real fans, and 6k real fans is what moves the world.

Proud to be in attendance. Glad to still be playing

If we were in the NCAA, we would have made it out of the first weekend. This team peaked one day too late.

I would love to beat Texas. Don't Mess with Texas? I wanna mess with Texas.

Bring it on.

That's a good point about my good point.

Nothing against the lower bowl folks (necessarily - and I don't want to turn this into an upper vs lower thread) but 'real fans' - who bought a ticket specifically for this game on this day - filled the lower bowl, so the passion and enthusiasm was much closer to the team as well.

Not sure many of the blue bloods would have been as enthusiastic about 1) an NIT game, or 2) The Mud Hens...I mean Rockets.

[fellahmuskie]

It was basically the same turnout as musketeer madness in recent years. Less kids, for sure, but similar fan profile. Xavier could play a high school team in the middle of July and I'd go if it was open to the public.

The only way to build attendance year over year is to have sustained success. Xavier has had a great run going back to the 80s and I would guess the fanbase is the strongest it's ever been. All those kids in the 90s that fell in love with Xavier are having their own kids now, so I'd expect the fanbase to really start growing in the next 10-20 years if we can keep winning.

I was at the top of d'artagnans deck at the end of the SJU game with my 10-month old and there were half a dozen other infants up there too. It's not easy bringing a baby to a basketball game and I saw a ton of them this year.

[Muskie]

That's a good point about my good point.

Nothing against the lower bowl folks (necessarily - and I don't want to turn this into an upper vs lower thread) but 'real fans' - who bought a ticket specifically for this game on this day - filled the lower bowl, so the passion and enthusiasm was much closer to the team as well.

Not sure many of the blue bloods would have been as enthusiastic about 1) an NIT game, or 2) The Mud Hens...I mean Rockets.

I for one couldn’t go because I booked a commitment two months prior that I was hosting that night. The fact that NIT plays games on Wednesday’s wasn’t even on my radar (nor was the NIT at that point). It’s a short notice event for a ton of people. Those are hard to fill in any circumstance.


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