NCAA Men's Basketball Attendance

Just counting home games, Illinois was tenth in attendance at 15,851 per game. Kentucky was first at 23,603 per game. If you count all games (home, road, neutral) then was one of 12 schools (including BYU) who had over a half a million people watch them (505,094 total, just ahead of Duke). Kentucky also lead in that category at 755,748.

Colorado was 77th at 7,014 per game. Colorado St was 4,879, but posted the eighth highest increase in attendance from 2010, going up 1,487 per game. BYU was tops in that category, going up 4,685 per game to 18,714. Denver University was tenth in that same category, going up 1,409 per game to 3,388.

The Big Ten had the highest average attendance at 12,826 per game. The Mountain West set an attendance record with 1,322,705 fans and was sixth in the nation. The Big 12 was fourth in the nation, but their attendance dropped to 10,716 per game.

For the conference tournaments, the ACC was tops with 23,381 per game.

For the NCAA tournament, Cleveland had the highest attendance out of the Thursday/Friday (second round) games at 20,164 for each session. (I'm assuming that's a sellout, because the third round numbers were the same for Cleveland) Denver came in third and fourth with 19,216 and 18,499. Tucson was poorly attended with 10,293 and 10,101 for its two sessions.

Denver's second round games did better than either the regional semifinals or regional finals for any site - New Orleans (12,320 and 12,139), San Antonio (14,566 and 14,299), Anaheim (17,890 and 17,856), and Newark (18,343 and 18,278). Maybe Denver will get to host a regional one of these years.

2011 NCAA Men's Basketball Attendance

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