Best attendance

[David Collinge]

I just noticed that I was at 3499.  3500 isn't much of a milestone, but what the heck. 

[gohope]

Getting back to the subject, Hope College has to have the best attendance record in DIII.  Go HOPE!

[smedindy]

I don't think we've ever been on the subject here! And that's the way (uh-huh uh-huh) we like it (uh-huh uh-huh)!!

[Mr. Ypsi]

Actually, back on the first couple of pages people did (sometimes) talk about attendance!

gohope, since the new arena opened, I imagine Hope will lead in attendance every year for the foreseeable future.  For the last dozen or so years, the top three have always been Hope, IWU, and Calvin, though the order has sometimes varied.

The board may now return to its 'real' purpose!

[diehardfan]

actually, about one or twice a year a hope fan (appropriately) tries to get us on topic... but we always win in the end  8)

[gohope]

I bow to the Masters and say thanks for allowing a mere mortel to be heard for just a second!!   

[diehardfan]

I bow to the Masters and say thanks for allowing a mere mortel to be heard for just a second!!   

aww, don't be silly, we're not masters at anything... though I do have a black belt in TKD and kick rear at Tiger Woods golf on X-box. At the appropriate time (ie the end of the season) I will definitely discus the final attendance standings to death in comparison to previous years and laud Hope for being cooler than my school in attendance, etc, etc. And then I will go back to posting more nonsense. 

[kiltedbryan]

Starting around this page on the OAC board, we had a chat about attendance figures reported by Otterbein, and D-III schools in general.  Otterbein led the OAC in attendance last year, but several posters (myself included) noted that estimated figures for some games this year seemed well inflated over the actual number of fans in the gym.  If you're interested, read through the discussion there.

[smedindy]

Ah yes, but nothing tops the Amidon / Harris / Fendley attendance generator program at Wabash football and basketball games.

I am so money I was able to derive the attendance figure for Saturday's Wabash / Kenyon tilt whilst doing to computer stats program!

[deiscanton]

It's time for post 1000 for me! 

I just wanted to post and say that I heard Pat Coleman wonder last night on Hoopsville about what the scenario is on the UAA women's side for who gets in on the automatic bid between NYU and Wash U and who will be up for a Pool C. 

I will be posting in the UAA Women's Basketball forum about the detailed scenarios in the current first place tie between Wash U and NYU in the UAA standings on my next post.

[David Collinge]

Deis! Deis! Deis!  It's Allen!

Congratulations! 

[Ralph Turner]

+1, Deis! 

[sac]

3000     3000     3000     3000
Yay! 8)

[ILive4This]

I just saw in the best dunk thread a video that showed the hope gym, and frankly im extremely impressed, it is reminiscent of atleast the lower levels of the dean smith center at UNC or the cameron indoor at Duke, all four sides perminent seating 3500ish, pretty impressive. I have seen many a div 1 facility that seat less.

Just wondering how/why hope built a facility of that size when a number of bigger universities do not have facilities of that caliber

[smedindy]

Simple - Hope can justify it.