I guess when I used the term “attendance” all I did when I submitted my post was use the same terminology as the data base. Geez. Give them a call.
Huck - that is where Harty has more than several times, guesstimated our student sections when school was in. You are at the games, so I trust you more than Pat Harty any day of the week. He said there was less than 50 for the Maryland game.
He was ball park on the student count at the Maryland game. I have no idea why They didn’t come out. The student section was absolutely 90%+ full for Purdue, and loud. The games before Purdue, for a month, students were on break. I will try to pay attention down the road when the games are all BT.
Which explains something I brought up in another post. Why do you never see shots of the Iowa student section in games played at Carver? If they average less than 100 students a game you've answered my question.
If you think Iowa “averages” less than 100 students per game, you are totally out of touch. 100? Really? There are more than that in the damn pep band.
You guys need to take a stats course. I submitted data that is legit because we only had speculation about attendance at CHA. So now, the actual data is wrong because it is based on ticket sales rather than a fuckin’ head count, which is totally impossible to track.
News flash: All of the available data ranks BT teams attendance based on ticket sales, not actual attendance. Duh. So, Indiana, Wisconsin, Purdue, and all the rest are ranked based on tickets. Not actual attendance. Half a dozen BT teams are ranked higher than Iowa nationally. And, the BT has the best ticket sales for men’s basketball in the entire D-1 world. Google it, for god’s sake.
Some of you who did not pass or even take Stats 101 don’t get it. Apparently, you have concluded that a bunch, or even all of the other BT teams, have butts in the seats equal to ticket sales, but Iowa doesn’t. In fact, since all of the teams, BT and nationally, are ranked in accordance to ticket sales, Iowa comes out ranked 24th Nationally. And, top 30 for ten consecutive years. Therefore, because all of the teams are ranked in accordance with the same measure, the data is clear.
Of course, you can continue with your bias and assume that ticket sales have no real relationship to actual attendance. But be aware. If that is true for Iowa, it must be true for everyone else in the country.
I am done with this shit until someone on HN comes up with a better measure. As some of you are fond of saying, “If you don’t understand, I don’t know what else to tell you.”
