(06-04-2023 07:31 PM)IWokeUpLikeThis Wrote:  

(06-04-2023 06:44 PM)DuncanMcShane Wrote:  

(06-04-2023 06:10 PM)TexanMark Wrote:  There was a county in Maine that listed NCSt.

I can’t get the map to zoom enough to look at Maine and the search isn’t working for me. I spend part of the year in Maine and part in North Carolina so that is fascinating to me. Most people we know in Maine are fans of UMaine. UConn also has a pretty good following. I’ve never heard the words “North Carolina State” uttered by any Mainer. But Aroostook County is so sparsely populated and so remote that if one person bought tickets to a NC State game that might constitute the “most popular”. Hockey is by far the most popular college sport in Maine.

This is only measuring people who bought secondary tickets on VividSeats. For a lot of counties, one person making a group purchase to a game faraway was enough to place a school first.

There are also a lot of counties where the local team dominates attendance, but all those tickets are bought through the school and not on VividSeats. So for a school like Murray St who averages 5k+ attendance, Kentucky ends up winning by virtue of Murray St tickets rarely being on VividSeats (why buy through a secondary site with fees when they can buy $15-20 tix through the school).

This is an interesting map but you are correct that this map is distorted by not capturing local purchases at the box office, student tickets, etc. Just to use an example, unlike Murray St, my alma mater App State has piss poor basketball attendance, averaging 1000 per game, most of those purchases are student tickets or locals buying season tickets or day-of walk up purchases. Assuming 60% are from Watagua County (likely closer to 80%), that is 600 per game, that's 6 or 7k over a season. Yet the map is colored for Wake Forest. No way 7000 tickets were sold to Wake Forest games from Watagua Co in a season. Im sure the same dynamic exists at nearly every school in a small college town, like Murray or App. Interesting map none the less.

(06-05-2023 09:51 AM)OhioBoilermaker Wrote:  

(06-04-2023 07:27 PM)CliftonAve Wrote:  

(06-04-2023 04:51 PM)shizzle787 Wrote:  https://www.vividseats.com/blog/most-pop...-teams-map

Schools that are most popular in at least 3 counties: 134
Schools that are most popular in at least 1 county: 109
Schools that own every county in their state: 3 (UConn, Providence, Arkansas)

Schools that are most popular by county by conference (23/24 alignment):

ACC: All 15 schools are most popular in at least 3 counties

Big East: 9 schools are most popular in at least 3 counties
DePaul most popular in 1
Xavier most popular in 2

Big 12: All 14 schools are most popular in at least 3 counties

Big 10: All 14 schools are most popular in at least 3 counties

SEC: All 14 schools are most popular in at least 3 counties

Pac-12: 11 schools are most popular in at least 3 counties
USC is not most popular in any

MW: 8 schools are most popular in at least 3 counties
SDSU, CSU, and Hawaii most popular in 2
SJSU is not most popular in any

WCC: Gonzaga and St. Mary's are the most popular in at least 3 counties
Pacific is most popular in 2
Loyola Marymount, San Diego, and Portland are most popular in 1
San Francisco, Pepperdine, and Santa Clara are not most popular in any

AAC: SMU, Memphis, USF, Wichita State, and Tulane are most popular in at least 3 counties
Tulsa is most popular in 2
The rest are not most popular in any

A-10: Dayton, UMass, VCU, and St. Bonaventure are most popular in at least 3 counties
Richmond is most popular in 2

C-USA: LaTech, NMSU, and WKU are most popular in at least 3 counties
UTEP is most popular in 2

Sun Belt: Southern Miss is most popular in at least 3 counties
Georgia Southern and Old Dominion are most popular in 2
Coastal Carolina is most popular in 1

Summit: USD, UND, and SDSU are most popular in at least 3 counties
NDSU is most popular in 1

MAC: Buffalo is most popular in at least 3 counties
Akron, Kent State, Toledo, and Ohio are most popular in 1

Big Sky: Montana and Montana State are most popular in at least 3 counties

MVC: Southern Illinois is most popular in at least 3 counties
Bradley is most popular in 1


CAA: Delaware is most popular in 2 counties
Campbell and Charleston are most popular in 1

AE: Vermont is most popular in at least 3 counties
Maine is most popular in 1

WAC: SFA is most popular in at least 3 counties
Grand Canyon is most popular in 1

MAAC: Siena and Canisius are most popular in 1 county

Southland: Lamar and Texas A&M-CC are most popular in 1 county

OVC: SEMO is most popular in 1 county

I only see one county for Xavier, which oddly is all the way over in Ashtabula County (in the most northeastern corner of the state). I would figure that to be more of a Youngstown State or Pitt leaning county.

Xavier is also most popular in Washington County, Maine

Lol, my guess is nobody buys tickets through this service in that county except for a family of four who happen to be Cincinnati transplants.

(06-04-2023 04:51 PM)shizzle787 Wrote:  C-USA[/b]: LaTech, NMSU, and WKU are most popular in at least 3 counties

Leaving aside the limited nature of the information, Louisiana Tech does not lead in any county.

I am not sure this is helpful.

A school like Wyoming may own its home market, but the population is, say, 500 thousand.

San Diego State may not own southern California but the state's population is 39 million. The Aztec fan base may be significantly more people.

A few more fun ones, Lincoln County Montana belongs to ... Loyola Marymount!!!''

Haines Alaska - Arizona State University

Southeast Fairbanks - University of Utah

Rio Blacno Colorado (west Colorado) - Tennessee

Flawed, but fun to look at. Thanks for posting.

One county in Texas has Colorado as their favorite?