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05-27-2007, 12:36 PM
For the eighth straight season, the Big 12 Conference led in league attendance and in doing so broke the NCAA conference mark for total fans in a season. The Big 12’s 1,023,576 fans in 2006-07 broke its own mark of 1,002,251 set in 2002. The Big 12 averaged 5,170 spectators per game. Rounding out the top five in average attendance were the Big Ten, Southeastern, Atlantic Coast and Big East Conferences.
Tennessee repeated at the leader among all 324 Division I teams in home attendance with 234,845 fans attending 16 games in Thompson-Boling Arena in Knoxville for an average of 14,678 per contest. No. 2 Connecticut had 10,802 fans a game, while Texas Tech and Oklahoma both finished above 10,000. Tennessee has led the nation every year since 1997, except for 2003 when Connecticut held the top spot, reports the NCAA.
Check out this link to see which team doubled their attendance this past year.
CLICK HERE (http://www.ncaa.org/wps/portal/!ut/p/kcxml/04_Sj9SPykssy0xPLMnMz0vM0Y_QjzKLN4g3NPUESYGYxqb6kW hCjhgihqYeCDFfj_zcVH1v_QD9gtzQ0IhyR0UAE3AuRw!!/delta/base64xml/L3dJdyEvUUd3QndNQSEvNElVRS82XzBfMTVL?WCM_GLOBAL_CO NTEXT=/wps/wcm/connect/NCAA/NCAA+News/NCAA+News+Online/2007/Association-Updates/Basketball+attendance+enjoys+records+for+both+gend ers+-+5-24-07+-+update)
Tennessee repeated at the leader among all 324 Division I teams in home attendance with 234,845 fans attending 16 games in Thompson-Boling Arena in Knoxville for an average of 14,678 per contest. No. 2 Connecticut had 10,802 fans a game, while Texas Tech and Oklahoma both finished above 10,000. Tennessee has led the nation every year since 1997, except for 2003 when Connecticut held the top spot, reports the NCAA.
Check out this link to see which team doubled their attendance this past year.
CLICK HERE (http://www.ncaa.org/wps/portal/!ut/p/kcxml/04_Sj9SPykssy0xPLMnMz0vM0Y_QjzKLN4g3NPUESYGYxqb6kW hCjhgihqYeCDFfj_zcVH1v_QD9gtzQ0IhyR0UAE3AuRw!!/delta/base64xml/L3dJdyEvUUd3QndNQSEvNElVRS82XzBfMTVL?WCM_GLOBAL_CO NTEXT=/wps/wcm/connect/NCAA/NCAA+News/NCAA+News+Online/2007/Association-Updates/Basketball+attendance+enjoys+records+for+both+gend ers+-+5-24-07+-+update)