Final 2014-15 UC Mens Basketball Attendance

14-15 Total Average 9,333 UP 9%
14-15 Non Conf Avg 7,956 UP 28%
14-15 Conference Avg 10,710 DOWN 4%


Three Most Attended Games
1 Xavier Wed 2/18 13,167
2 Memphis Sun 3/8 12,358
3 Temple Sat 1/17 12,071

Three Least Attended Games
1 Wagner Wed 12/23 6,023
2 Morehead St Wed 11/19 6,119
3 Stony Brook Tues 12/2 6,603



-Slight decrease in conference avg this year cant be mostly attributed to Louisville not being on the schedule which would have brought in another 12-13k game. As opposed to ECU who brought in 7.5k.

-Interesting to note the Uconn game would have ranked 6th on this list of most attended , also behind home games against Tulane and USF. Reasoning? Uconn was on a Thursday. Tulane and USF were Saturday games. Proving day of the week is more of a driver for attendance than opponent around here.

dump the cupcakes and we're good!

Thank you to everyone who helped contribute to these numbers. It is much appreciated. Lots of people have been calling lately to place football deposits so next year should be even better!

(03-09-2015 09:39 AM)Crewdogz Wrote:  dump the cupcakes and we're good!

At least replace them with regional draws such as Miami, Ohio U., Dayton, Bowling Green, BGSU, Wright State, NKU, etc.

(03-09-2015 11:45 AM)RedRocker Wrote:  

(03-09-2015 09:39 AM)Crewdogz Wrote:  dump the cupcakes and we're good!

At least replace them with regional draws such as Miami, Ohio U., Dayton, Bowling Green, BGSU, Wright State, NKU, etc.

What is the difference between Bowling Green and BGSU?

I think all/most of the teams you mention would want home and home.

Bohn said today that our MBB season ticket sales were up by 32% this year after being flat for four seasons. Something like 900% increase in the upper deck season tickets. Bodes well for the future when the arena is renovated.

(03-09-2015 11:15 AM)Ash_UC_Tix Wrote:  Thank you to everyone who helped contribute to these numbers. It is much appreciated. Lots of people have been calling lately to place football deposits so next year should be even better!

Ash- check your PM

With respects to the cupcakes, I saw that Stony Brook won their conference tournament yesterday. Frankly I think they were more competitive than what Miami U. would have been. Of course, the Redhawks might have brought all 50 of their fans and gotten a few more of our casual fans out to watch the game.

This year's non-conference schedule was perfect. We only played 2 games OOC against teams outside the top 200, which is a must as the AAC is currently comprised with so many boat anchors to play in conference. While I'd like to see us play Dayton home and home, not sure any of the local teams really bring any more of a crowd and their RPI is probably worse than the teams we brought in. I could care less if I am seeing Wright State or Stony Brook. Unless the team is an NCAA tourney team, they probably won't bring many more fans.

(03-09-2015 12:52 PM)CliftonAve Wrote:  With respects to the cupcakes, I saw that Stony Brook won their conference tournament yesterday. Frankly I think they were more competitive than what Miami U. would have been. Of course, the Redhawks might have brought all 50 of their fans and gotten a few more of our casual fans out to watch the game.

This. Scheduling teams that dominate lower tier conferences (i.e. Stony Brook and NC Central) gives an RPI bump. Therefore, the question is whether an improved post-season resume trumps a few thousand on attendance? I would argue in the long run that the "RPI bump" scheduling does more for the program and will ultimately address the attendance concerns.

(03-09-2015 12:52 PM)CliftonAve Wrote:  With respects to the cupcakes, I saw that Stony Brook won their conference tournament yesterday. Frankly I think they were more competitive than what Miami U. would have been. Of course, the Redhawks might have brought all 50 of their fans and gotten a few more of our casual fans out to watch the game.

Actually they won in the semi-finals yesterday. They play in the conference championship on Saturday against Albany. Does not take away from your point though. Miami would do nothing for the schedule in basketball.

I cringe when I say this, and I know it's mostly out of our reach because of how pitiful the bottom half of the AAC is, but we've got to schedule like Xavier does, and avoid 200+ RPI teams. Our OOC SOS was great this year, but there's literally no benefit in playing schools up over 300. Your RPI drops simply by stepping on the court; even if you win by 60. A lot of people have looked at Xavier's resume and thought "it's not that great, so why is their RPI and SOS so high?" It's because although they didn't play many great teams in their OOC, they mostly avoided the garbage ones. I believe they've only faced one 200+ RPI team all year to our 10. Like I said, plenty of those are AAC games, but still. Playing a team like Duke is pretty much offset when you face a 310 RPI squad.

(03-09-2015 01:52 PM)#BearcatNation Wrote:  I cringe when I say this, and I know it's mostly out of our reach because of how pitiful the bottom half of the AAC is, but we've got to schedule like Xavier does, and avoid 200+ RPI teams. Our OOC SOS was great this year, but there's literally no benefit in playing schools up over 300. Your RPI drops simply by stepping on the court; even if you win by 60. A lot of people have looked at Xavier's resume and thought "it's not that great, so why is their RPI and SOS so high?" It's because although they didn't play many great teams in their OOC, they mostly avoided the garbage ones. I believe they've only faced one 200+ RPI team all year to our 10. Like I said, plenty of those are AAC games, but still. Playing a team like Duke is pretty much offset when you face a 310 RPI squad.

Our OOC SOS was stronger than Xavier's this year according to the RPI. We did just fine this year.

(03-09-2015 01:52 PM)#BearcatNation Wrote:  I cringe when I say this, and I know it's mostly out of our reach because of how pitiful the bottom half of the AAC is, but we've got to schedule like Xavier does, and avoid 200+ RPI teams. Our OOC SOS was great this year, but there's literally no benefit in playing schools up over 300. Your RPI drops simply by stepping on the court; even if you win by 60. A lot of people have looked at Xavier's resume and thought "it's not that great, so why is their RPI and SOS so high?" It's because although they didn't play many great teams in their OOC, they mostly avoided the garbage ones. I believe they've only faced one 200+ RPI team all year to our 10. Like I said, plenty of those are AAC games, but still. Playing a team like Duke is pretty much offset when you face a 310 RPI squad.

I think our OOC scheduling is fine.

What needs to happen is the AAC needs to crack down on the bottom run of the conference to improve their strength of schedule. The schools in the conference with the 300 RPI played a lot of crap OOC (as in DII schools and bottom of the barrell programs). The league needs to mandate some minimum scheduling requirements which would prop everyone's RPI's up (remember, your RPI fares better by losing to a better program than beating a terrible one).

I was at an event a couple months and someone asked a Mick about playing Dayton and Miami and his response was "I can see how that would help Dayton and Miami but I can't see how that helps Cincinnati"

For my own selfish reasons, I'm still dreaming of an early season tourney involving some combination of UC, OSU, UK, UL, IU, Butler, X, Dayton etc. maybe add in a few mid majors so the big boys get an easy W. I just think it would be cool.

Sounds like the Shoe will seat 12k post renmovation. I can live with that.

(This is what Bohn said at a luncheon recently).

In a good year 12,000 is minimum However the program is capable of more if the seats are there. UC could do what UCONN does and split some big games with a larger arena such as US Bank. Smaller arenas limit fan support. Besides Mick indicated US Bank was his preference if it was upgraded.

(03-09-2015 09:24 PM)BearcatShane09 Wrote:  I was at an event a couple months and someone asked a Mick about playing Dayton and Miami and his response was "I can see how that would help Dayton and Miami but I can't see how that helps Cincinnati"

In a home and home format I agree with Mick.

I would be on board with joining those schools every year to play an early season Ohio tournament at a neutral site. We all know that Ohio State has no interest but that doesn't prevent the rest of us from having one. We could rotate the games every year or two between Cincinnati, Columbus, Toledo and Cleveland.

To the people proposing an annual Ohio tournament: It would never happen. You are allowed one early season exempt event. Teams plan those out years in advance and they rotate which tournament they play in every year. Nowhere else in the country do local teams play in an annual tournament. It isn't going to start in Ohio. I feel like UC fans suggest this every year.

The only thing remotely possible is something similar to what IU, Purdue, Butler and Notre Dame do or what Kansas, Michigan St, Duke and Kentucky do with the champions classic where those teams get together one day and every team plays one game and the opponent is rotated. And I don't see that happening each year either. But who cares? We already play Xavier every year. The only other team that would be a big draw would be Ohio State, and we already know they won't play us. Who cares about the rest?