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#Post#: 14870--------------------------------------------------
America East attendance
DIR By: Checkmate
Date: February 1, 2016, 9:38 am
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Home attendance halfway through conference schedule. If it
stayed like this, we would lead the league in attendance for the
first time in a loooong time. Maybe ever. I'm guessing ever.
Last year, our 2,785 average was second to Albany with 3,390. In
the 10 years prior to that, we were around 1,500 a night, aside
from the '07-08 season when we dipped under 1,000.
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[tr][td]
[table][tr]
[td]Rank [/td]
[td]Team[/td]
[td]G[/td]
[td]Total[/td]
[td]Avg[/td][/tr]
[tr]
[td]1[/td]
[td]Stony Brook[/td]
[td]9[/td]
[td]28,389[/td]
[td]3,154[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]2[/td]
[td]Albany[/td]
[td]10 [/td]
[td]28,636 [/td]
[td]2,864[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]3[/td]
[td]Binghamton[/td]
[td]10[/td]
[td]22,690[/td]
[td]2,269[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]4[/td]
[td]Vermont[/td]
[td]9[/td]
[td]18,887[/td]
[td]2,099[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]5[/td]
[td]Maine[/td]
[td]9[/td]
[td]11,411[/td]
[td]1,268[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]6[/td]
[td]Hartford[/td]
[td]12[/td]
[td]15,104[/td]
[td]1,259[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]7[/td]
[td]UMass Lowell[/td]
[td]8[/td]
[td]7,626[/td]
[td]953[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]8[/td]
[td]UMBC[/td]
[td]9[/td]
[td]7,979[/td]
[td]887[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]9[/td]
[td]New Hampshire [/td]
[td]9[/td]
[td]5,796[/td]
[td]644[/td]
[/tr]
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#Post#: 14871--------------------------------------------------
Re: America East attendance
DIR By: Seawolf97
Date: February 1, 2016, 10:35 am
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That is impressive over 3k per game. I was impressed with the
Albany game when we hit 4109. Really a home crowd advantage.
#Post#: 14873--------------------------------------------------
Re: America East attendance
DIR By: SaltySeawolf
Date: February 1, 2016, 10:45 am
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Nice attendance. I think it will be tough for us to hang onto
the lead. Albany still has to host us and Vermont. The Vermont
game is also their Big Purple Growl event. Both of those will
be sell outs. We have Vermont still but on a Saturday night.
The other 3 games we host are not going to be high attendance
events.
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Re: America East attendance
DIR By: Checkmate
Date: February 1, 2016, 10:46 am
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Good job by Binghamton rallying around a terrible team. They're
second in attendance for the women's games too at 1,472 a night.
Tops among women? Maine at 1,786, or 500 more than they get for
men's games and 1,000 more than we get here.
#Post#: 14879--------------------------------------------------
Re: America East attendance
DIR By: Wolfie_MD
Date: February 1, 2016, 12:36 pm
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I think we'll have great attendance the rest of the way- its
really an accomplishment of the whole department. Ten years ago,
no way you would have convinced anybody that 3000+ would
consistently come to Stony Brook to watch college hoops.
Long Island fans really enjoy basketball- I hope college
football catches on like college hoops. College hoops is as good
as its been on the whole in the NYC area with Hofstra, Stony
Brook, and Monmouth both legitimate teams that can make noise in
the NCAA tourney. Unfortunately St John's stinks and I don't see
them turning it around anytime soon.
February should be huge crowds IMHO- the student section will be
packed...heck it was jam packed even before the official move in
date in the game against Albany.
#Post#: 14882--------------------------------------------------
Re: America East attendance
DIR By: Chairman of the Board
Date: February 1, 2016, 1:03 pm
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I was just thinking this morning of the 2009 game in November
against SJU. I headed over to carnesecca and we were likely
outmatched. we ended up losing by a bit but we hung tough for
about 3/4 of the game. I was happy with that.
it's nice to see how far we've come since that game 6+ years
ago.
I really thought the el amin / joyner / dougher / brenton squad
was going to make it one year. let's not have that happen with
the current squad.
#Post#: 14884--------------------------------------------------
Re: America East attendance
DIR By: Moveitfred
Date: February 1, 2016, 1:48 pm
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Great to see, and I remember sitting in the new arena when it
was really new and being able to shoot a cannon through the
space and not hit anyone during games. The
marketing/success/turnaround of the attendance and team has been
great in a rather short amount of time. Kudos to all at the
university who have worked to make this happen.
Here is my one and only gripe: Hey you season ticket holders
with the good seats (you know who you are)--come to games and
sit your butts in your seats or give them away to deserving
people who will!
I'm referencing the UA "sellout," as I had a couple of friends
email me after the game noting how many empty seats (down low,
esp behind the bench) were visible on TV. :o
Listen, I know ponying up the bucks and providing that support
gives one the right to come or not come, I just wish there was
some honorable way to fill those close seats if they are empty
(especially for TV games). A little bit like Yankees games, no?,
when those expensive corporate seats down low often sit empty.
Oh well, guess that's just a byproduct of the times.
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Re: America East attendance
DIR By: Wolfie_MD
Date: February 1, 2016, 2:06 pm
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I remember in 05 or 06 I went to see a Stony Brook game against
Lafayette at the "old" arena. It was in December- not kidding
but maybe 250 or 300 people were at that game. All I can
remember was that it went to OT and Stony Brook lost. By 2010
there was a line a mile long to watch conference games against
Bingo at Pritchard.
Downgrading to Pritchard ended up being a short-term blessing
because the team was not ready for a bigger arena.
#Post#: 14887--------------------------------------------------
Re: America East attendance
DIR By: Checkmate
Date: February 1, 2016, 2:46 pm
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--- Quote from: Wolfie_MD link ---
>
> I remember in 05 or 06 I went to see a Stony Brook game
against Lafayette at the "old" arena. It was in December- not
kidding but maybe 250 or 300 people were at that game. All I can
remember was that it went to OT and Stony Brook lost. By 2010
there was a line a mile long to watch conference games against
Bingo at Pritchard.
>
> Downgrading to Pritchard ended up being a short-term blessing
because the team was not ready for a bigger arena.
>
--- End Quote ---
Didn't we play all season in Pritchard and then switch to the
big arena for the AE title game at one point?
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Re: America East attendance
DIR By: Wolfie_MD
Date: February 1, 2016, 3:07 pm
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It was actually 2007 now that I think about it- this predated
the move to Pritchard. They were still playing in Stony Brook
Arena (RIP) at that time. Horribly generic arena, don't miss it
one bit.
Actually found the boxscore LOL. Those names are a blast from
the Stony Brook past. Actually the game was in November and the
announced attendance was slightly north of 700...it was
definitely less.
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