Jump to content

zippy5

Members
  • Posts

    7,242
  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    123

Posts posted by zippy5

  1. I was wrong to say that student attendance of 700 is "beyond sad." After having done a little research on college basketball attendance, I've seen enough to convince me that 700 is not a bad number for UA playing against a 20-point underdog. The thing that really changed my mind was seeing that Duke has had problems filling its 1,200-seat student section over the past five seasons. If Duke can't attract 1,200 students for some of its home games, then UA drawing 700+ students to see Ball State is actually pretty decent.

    I do wonder what percentage of OU's average home attendance of 6,000+ are students. At the very least, UA should try to be the best in the MAC.

    Not to pat myself on the back or anything..

    When I benchmark student sections I think Duke and Pitt.. I wouldn't guess either of those get over 1,200 per game.
  2. Let's try that again, only this time using the RPI:

    Home:

    Wichita State (17)

    Belmont (30)

    Indiana State (36)

    Murray State (74)

    Akron (75)

    Oral Roberts (84)

    Davidson (86)

    Long Beach State (92)

    Away:

    Creighton (21)

    Stephen F Austin (57)

    North Dakota State (58)

    Northwestern State (64)

    Saint Mary's (77)

    Detroit (80)

    South Dakota State (85)

    Eastern Kentucky (95)

    The top home teams are much better than the road teams this year. Nobody's going to get a great match-up as a home team.

    We'll probably end up with SDSU or EKU.

    Saint Mary's looks like a realistic, and intriguing possibility.

×
×
  • Create New...