For Star subscribers: Here’s how you know you live in a basketball town: Only eight schools averaged more than 20,000 in combined attendance for men’s and women’s college basketball last season.
Greg Hansen Adia Barnes believes Arizona can break the Pac-12 record for women’s basketball attendance, a formula she says will require “a sellout or two and several other games drawing about 10,000.”
To understand what it means to even dream about averaging 10,000 fans per game in women’s college basketball, remember that Pac-12 women’s teams last year collectively averaged a bare 2,875. Nationally, the only team to average 10,000 or more was mighty South Carolina . After making McKale Center one of the nation’s hot spots in the Fred Snowden years of the 1970s, McKale became something of a ghost town in the early ’80s, when Snowden lost his touch.
Utah? The Utes drew 13,000 or more for eight seasons in the 1990s, but once Rick Majerus left his coaching job, Utah seemed to become a football school overnight. Now, the Utes struggle not just to win, but to draw even 8,000 on a good night at Huntsman Center. That would suggest Iowa State, South Carolina, Arizona, Louisville and Iowa are the Big Five in local interest.
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