NCAA D-I sets attendance mark; no Pac-10 teams in mix

posted by Jayda Evans: Womens Hoops Blog
Wednesday, May 18, 2011 at 3:00am EDT

Jayda Evans covers college and pro women's basketball. While its her first year on the Washington beat, she has covered the Storm since its inception. She'll offer observations, critiques, occasional off-beat tales and answers to select e-mail inquires. Evans also has written a book on the Storm and women's hoops, called "Game On!"

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NCAA Division-I women's basketball set another attendance record, drawing 8,127,779 fans for the 2010-11 season. The previous D-I record was 8,090,084 set in 2007-08.

Overall, the three levels of NCAA basketball drew 11,159,837 fans -- the second largest attendance total all-time, short of the record 11,160,293 set in 2008-09.

Individually, Tennessee led all schools with an average of 12,599 fans. There weren't any Pac-10 or soon-to-be Pac-12 schools among the top-10, Stanford averaging a conference-best 4,839 fans this season. Overall, the Pac-10 drew 332,153 fans.

Washington, which had a fourth-consecutive losing season, ranked fourth in the conference in attendance, averaging 2,411 fans. But a source said those numbers were included plenty of comp tickets.

Washington State was last in conference attendance, averaging 608 fans for 12 home games.

Below is the top-10 D-I attendance list, as provided by the NCAA.

Rank/School/Home games/Total/Average
1 Tennessee 17 214,187 12,599
2 Louisville 15 162,892 10,859
3 Connecticut 22 215,328 9,788
4 Iowa State 17 159,293 9,370
5 Notre Dame 17 145,409 8,553
6 Baylor 21 166,593 7,933
7 New Mexico 15 115,152 7,677
8 Purdue 17 129,671 7,628
9 Michigan State 16 118,214 7,388
10 Texas Tech 17 119,731 7,043

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NCAA D-I sets attendance mark; no Pac-10 teams in mix

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