(01-18-2019 02:19 PM)EvanJ Wrote:  

(01-17-2019 08:13 PM)The Grape King Wrote:  I paid $40 for the entire Ivy League tournament, men's and women's. $20 is just too much for a CAA game, especially in a pro town with more college basketball teams than anywhere else in the country.

I'm surprised the Ivy League is that cheap. They made a 4 team tournament, so it's 3 games per gender for a total of 6. The CAA Men's Tournament gets low attendance and charges a lot more. The last statement is technically not true. New York City has 7 teams in Division I compared to 6 in Philadelphia, albeit the New York City teams are farther apart. St. Francis Brooklyn averages under 500, so you don't have the lowest attendance by a team in a big city. Long Island University-Brooklyn shares in the attendance misery with just over 500. Fordham averages 1,528, which is the second highest in New York City. St. John's has the second lowest average in the Big East. Creighton and Marquette average more than the sum of the seven teams in New York City. The New York City teams I didn't name before are Wagner, Manhattan, and Columbia.

Hofstra has the same $20 price for the best seats and has cheaper seats for $14.

It just goes to show you that mid-major college basketball in major markets is a really tough draw. The larger the market, and the more MAJOR forms of entertainment there are, the worse college teams will draw. My guess is that the $20 seats at Hofstra are equivalent to the $20 seats at Drexel (which is basically all of the chairbacks) while the cheaper seats are farther away from the court.