Attendance

Beasts of the East said:
Ok. I know I constantly harp, but Wednesday is a chance for all fans who have strongly held beliefs that MSG should be our home court to go online today and buy tickets. Stub hub prices starting at $41 before fees, and the 4 pack family specials may still be available at $120.

For all of you Missourians from the Show me State, be advised: You have been shown, and now it's very good. Rise up off your couch, and let's serve notice that St. John's basketball is ALIVE after a long hiatus and finally returned home.

Home court advantage = a home filled with our fans

I hope that was nice enough. Don't want any fans waiting for us to win the Big East championship to be offended.

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I will be there with my season ticket package +3.
 
Most of the best attended college basketball venues are in places like Omaha, Syracuse, Lexington, Louisville, Lawrence, Arkansas, Dayton, Lincoln, etc. Not big cities like New York or Washington DC (Georgetown attendance has been horrendous for years- including this year). That's because cities like Lexington and Syracuse don't have a fraction of the competition that NYC has, especially within the sports world where the college programs are basically the only option. Plus most of those programs have made deep Tournament runs recently, not zero wins in decades.

I fully agree attendance for Wednesday should be above 10K (as I said- 13-14K would be solid), and hopefully we at least approach those numbers once the tickets are counted, but the vast majority of New Yorkers and even St. John's fans don't follow this stuff like we do. Yes, beating Nova and soaring in the NET rankings will be huge come March, but Nova isn't ranked and the casual fan doesn't know what NET is.

Just a couple weeks ago our resume was pretty mediocre, and it's only the past day where it started becoming solid. Let's wait until the team becomes relevant nationally first and see how much attendance picks up. I have a feeling it'll keep going up and up if we continue winning.
 
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njfan said:
werent fans complaining about no games at the garden now you want games back on campus. if you build it they will come. well rick is building it.
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I wasn’t one of those people.

I love that we get to play at MSG, but I’m also a fan who wants to see my team make the tournament and get a good seed.

With providence wounded missing their best player, I sincerely think we’d beat their ass if the game was at Carnesseca.

for some reason I just don’t hold the same confidence when a game is at MSG
 
I'll be at MSG this Wed. But I'll understand if it's "only" 10,000 in attendance. If you go back and look at Lavin's first year, the year we danced, and see the attendance in early January against G'town and Notre Dame, they were both well below 10,000. You need to win consistently to get the non-diehards in the door.
 
Redenbacher said:
I'll be at MSG this Wed. But I'll understand if it's "only" 10,000 in attendance. If you go back and look at Lavin's first year, the year we danced, and see the attendance in early January against G'town and Notre Dame, they were both well below 10,000. You need to win consistently to get the non-diehards in the door.
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Where can we get those attendance figures ? I don’t doubt you and Lavins big run came later January I think but literally today was texting with a buddy and we were trying to remember what Lavins msg attendance was like before Pitt and we didn’t remember
 
mjmaherjr said:
Where can we get those attendance figures ? I don’t doubt you and Lavins big run came later January I think but literally today was texting with a buddy and we were trying to remember what Lavins msg attendance was like before Pitt and we didn’t remember
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Form red stormsports;

"St. John's averaged 11,488 fans in eight home games at The Garden in 2010-11. The Red Storm's overall home attendance average of 8,431 was the highest since 2000-01, when St. John's boasted an average attendance of 11,223. The overall attendance ranked 57th nationally, up from 88th last season (6,107). STJ rated ninth among BIG EAST schools in home attendance in 2010-11, improving significantly from 14th in 2009-10."

redstormsports.com

STJ Basketball Scores Nation's Fourth-Highest Attendance Increase In 2010-11 - St. John's University Athletics

May 6, 2011 2010-11 NCAA Men's Basketball Attendance Report QUEENS, N.Y. - In a season of milestones during Steve Lavin's inaugural campaign at St. John's, s...
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10-12 k we’ll have to live with, passive hoops fans in NYC are not as amped as we are.

As someone posted, win big consistently & we’ll do better w sell outs possible v better BE teams & Dukes of the world who have good alumni base in NY area.

Weekends are the best time to sell out usually obviously.
 
paultzman said:
10-12 k we’ll have to live with, passive hoops fans in NYC are not as amped as we are.

As someone posted, win big consistently & we’ll do better w sell outs possible v better BE teams & Dukes of the world who have good alumni base in NYC. Weekends obviously the best time to sell out usually.
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Weekends are key!
 
billyfa said:
It was a great environment though. I'll look it up but it was a sea of red not including upper deck. Maybe 16k
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that was the last year of the old garden I think and our seats were first row behind the wall in that inner walkway ( that walkway was great for socializing ) and I'm kinda sure that game after we won Kranmars lept over the wall celebrating like superman and lept back over the wall ( a tougher task ) like that guy the other day who lept up and flew in the air to try and attack the judge in Vegas or wherever it was
 
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For years I have been reading posts claiming that once SJU starts winning attendance will rise. Rise , yes , but don’t expect sellouts at MSG vs Providence. If SJU wins thirty games with two players of the year in the lineup they will sellout MSG but unless they play Duke or give away thousands of tickets to groups like the police and firemen sellouts are not going to happen on a regular basis.
Finish in the top three of the big east and schedule teams with strong alumni bases in NYC like Syr and Conn and you can sell out MSG but Providence just doesn’t move the needle.
A crowd near fifteen thousand would be a great crowd Wed.
 
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