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That's a great background picture. The environment for that game was so amazing. Especially love the "Criers" sign in the student section

Official 2017-18 NCAA Men's Basketball D1 attendance numbers have been released:

Items of note:
URI had the 17th largest attendance increase nationally
Dayton had the 23rd highest average attendance at 12,996
The A-10 had the 9th highest average attendance among conferences
URI once again had the fifth highest average attendance in the A-10
URI had the third highest average attendance in New England (behind PC and UConn-ahead of BC)


ATLANTIC 10 HOME ATTENDANCE BY AVERAGE
TEAM | GAMES | TOTAL | AVERAGE
DAYTON | 16 | 207,950 | 12,996
VCU | 18 | 137,466 | 7,637
RICHMOND | 15 | 97,379 | 6,491
ST LOUIS | 18 | 112,237 | 6,235
URI | 16 | 99,466 | 6,216
ST BONAVENTURE | 14 | 60,007 | 4,286
DAVIDSON | 13 | 55,600 | 4,276
GEORGE MASON | 17 | 69,491 | 4,087
ST JOE'S | 13 | 47,946 | 3,688
UMASS | 17 | 50,901 | 2,994
GW | 17 | 45,019 | 2,648
LASALLE | 14 | 26,755 | 1,911
DUQUESNE | 19 | 34,464 | 1,813
FORDHAM | 17 | 26,638 | 1,566
TOTAL | 224 | 1,071,319 | 4,783

Regular season home games only
Source: http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/m_basketb ... ndance.pdf



NEW ENGLAND MEN'S BASKETBALL D1 HOME ATTENDANCE BY AVERAGE
TEAM | GAMES | TOTAL | AVERAGE
PROVIDENCE | 17 | 162,315 | 9,547
UCONN | 16 | 125,271 | 7,829
URI | 16 | 99,466 | 6,216
BOSTON COLLEGE | 17 | 87,731 | 5,160
UMASS-AMHERST | 17 | 50,901 | 2,994
VERMONT | 14 | 41,012 | 2,929
HOLY CROSS | 13 | 21,340 | 1,641
QUINNIPIAC | 12 | 19,055 | 1,587
HARVARD | 11 | 16,623 | 1,511
CCSU | 12 | 17,142 | 1,428
HARTFORD | 16 | 22,536 | 1,408
FAIRFIELD | 13 | 17,518 | 1,347
YALE | 12 | 15,675 | 1,306
NORTHEASTERN | 14 | 15,993 | 1,142
UMASS-LOWELL | 16 | 17,913 | 1,119
MAINE | 12 | 12,344 | 1,028
BROWN | 13 | 11,474 | 882
DARTMOUTH | 12 | 10,423 | 868
BU | 13 | 9,024 | 694
BRYANT | 12 | 7,619 | 634
UNH | 15 | 7,219 | 481
SACRED HEART | 14 | 6,198 | 442

Ticket Sales, Business Partnerships Generated Record Revenue in 2017-18

http://gorhody.com/genrel/releases/reve ... ss-2017-18

RF1 wrote:Ticket Sales, Business Partnerships Generated Record Revenue in 2017-18

http://gorhody.com/genrel/releases/reve ... ss-2017-18

Learfield's Rhody Sports Properties and the Ryan Center Box Office combined to bring in more than $2.8 million during 2017-18. Both entities topped $1.4 million in revenue last year.

During the 2017-18 year, Rhody Sports Properties brought in $1.46 million, a 6.1 percent increase from 2016-17. The figure also represents a 64 percent increase in revenue from the group's starting point five years ago.

Overall, season, mini-plan, individual game and group sales produced 67,693 tickets sold during the 2017-18 season.


URI's overall attendance was 99,466 for the 2017-18 season. According to this press release, only 68% of these were sold meaning that 31,773 were free. That equates to an average of 1,986 free tickets for each game. Student tickets obviously make up a large number of these. URI typically allots 1,500 tickets for students to each game. The full allotment is however not met for many games (particularly during semester break and early season OOC games). Based on this, it would appear that URI is giving away an average in excess of 500 free tickets (excluding URI students) every game.

RF1 wrote:

RF1 wrote:Ticket Sales, Business Partnerships Generated Record Revenue in 2017-18

http://gorhody.com/genrel/releases/reve ... ss-2017-18

Learfield's Rhody Sports Properties and the Ryan Center Box Office combined to bring in more than $2.8 million during 2017-18. Both entities topped $1.4 million in revenue last year.

During the 2017-18 year, Rhody Sports Properties brought in $1.46 million, a 6.1 percent increase from 2016-17. The figure also represents a 64 percent increase in revenue from the group's starting point five years ago.

Overall, season, mini-plan, individual game and group sales produced 67,693 tickets sold during the 2017-18 season.


URI's overall attendance was 99,466 for the 2017-18 season. According to this press release, only 68% of these were sold meaning that 31,773 were free. That equates to an average of 1,986 free tickets for each game. Student tickets obviously make up a large number of these. URI typically allots 1,500 tickets for students to each game. The full allotment is however not met for many games (particularly during semester break and early season OOC games). Based on this, it would appear that URI is giving away an average in excess of 500 free tickets to every game.

They should try to give away however many it takes to fill the place.

gotta factor in th allotment marketing gives away for sponsors / partners, and the comp allotments given to players, coaches, administrators prob makes up a lot of that other free group.

Rhody83 wrote:

While this may be a good number for URI, here is some local (PC) comparison:






Still have plenty of of room for growth.