We’re gonna be the first team ever to go undefeated and get a 16 seed
But who cares, that means we went undefeated
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Hell, we’d probably be playing in Dayton for the First Four.
Evan Ipsaro sounds like a coach! That is why he is such an outstanding PG.
Has Millett been more empty for a game ?
You could have went.
Living in FL I attend 1 or 2 events a year + is difficult being disabled. Would attend more if I could drive a few hours each way.
yes it has. During J-term last season, there were plenty of games that had less than 1k actual people in the arena. We only averaged 1756 last year and that includes 3 really strong home games in February where fans showed out. I just looked it up based on NCAA attendance figures during the 1990’s Miami’s lowest per game average for a season was 3860 in 1998, high was 6401 in 1999. Where is everyone? What are the students doing?
Posting on Instagram and looking at Tik-Tok?
Going to hockey
i am not going to say we had good attendance but my son attended Thursday night and Fridays hockey. Asking the students to go 4 straight days is a big ask. College is fun there is a lot to do. Where are the alums / fans. It isnt always on the students
A Sunday game vs the NFL and one of the worst teams in D1 isnt great either. And then we play Maine at the same time as the MaC Fb title? Makes no sense.
I hope there are more fans soon. This team deserves it. But the schedule (which has been explained and wont happen again) isnt helping
While that all may be true, I don’t buy that. At a place like Miami, in the middle of cornfields, it HAS to be students driving the attendance for all sports. The announced crowds ARE alums and fans–there are literally 20 students at the first couple home games. Sunday at 1PM is pretty light in Oxford as far as things to do and I doubt most students from Ohio are really glued to their TV to watch the Browns and Bengals this year LOL. Fans should be there to support Miami no matter who the opponent is. It’s not like we have been hosting “name” schools in the past either. And I am quite sure most students couldn’t pick or locate some of the hockey opponents out of a hat (Ferris St, RPI, Lindenwood, St Cloud State, Colorado College, Omaha, Minnesota Duluth) and until this season the hockey program has been awful (glad to see the turnaround!). Winter sports can’t schedule around “potential” fall sports matchups like MAC FB title games.
Just my two cents. Hoops was always supported in the past (nearly 3x as many per game back in the not so distant days). And we are not talking about soccer or baseball/softball–football and mens basketball are THE drivers from spectator sports in college and its just not happening for far too long at Miami in both.
If you believe Miami the largest student football attendance ever was vs UC last year at 8,500 and the total crowd was 24,000.
i believe we had our first hockey 3,652 sellout (which includes SRO) on Friday in 10 years. From all accounts it was a student driven number
I believe Miami said the home game in 2021 vs UC basketball was the largest student attendance ever with 2,735 or something like that
I have been going to Miami sporting events for over 35 years. Student attendance is always hit or miss and is very much opponent driven. The big change in the last 30 years is the alumni and blue hairs. Way lower.
Unfortunately, hoops support cratered when the team cratered. Once students stop going because the team is bad, its hard to rebuild the student culture. Same thing happened to football after Ben. Same thing happened to hockey when they got bad recently.
Miami sports, at least for the last 20 years or so, has never been a big part of student culture, outside the hockey glory days. Very hard to fix that without a splash type season, I think if Miami made the dance last year, it would have helped certainly. For most, the dance is what makes a basketball team relevant and we haven’t gone since 2007.
I agree, for basketball, its going to come down to students turning it around eventually. We’ve probably only created a hundred or so new hoops fan alumni over the last 20 years. Its not good. A complete lost generation. I don’t make it to as many games as I’d like as I’m a couple hours away in Indy and now have two kids with activities, but the lack of fans in the 25-40 year old age group is very apparent. The fans from the 90s and Wally World are starting to age up and no one is replacing them as young, energized fans.
A friend of mine has season tickets to UD. basketball. He usually takes me to one game per year.
I went with him to the UD-North Carolina Central game on Saturday.
A running joke I have with him is that UD has more cheerleaders than Miami has students in attendance at most games. They must have 30. Your comment on the 20 students at the first couple of games this year proves the accuracy of my “joke”. It is very sad that this is where we are.
Basketball student attendance is always much worse in non conference play unless the opponent is a draw
Since my freshman year in 2012 I don’t think we’ve had a good OOC crowd for any opponent except Dayton in 2014 and UC in 2021. It’s just not part of the student culture, and we all know the issues we’ve had with alumni/locals.
Saw on Instagram that the NIU home game on 1/31 will have free tickets for alumni, looks like they’ll repeat last year’s “let’s give tickets away” strategy. We averaged over 4800 attendance last season for MAC games after students returned from break, so it was a winning strategy.