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Session 1 this year Attendance: 4413

Session 2 this year Attendance: 3369

Session 3 this year Attendance: 3987

Session 4 this year Attendance: 4808

 

Thanks for the attendance numbers.

 

Attendance can increase as you move towards the semi's and finals, however lots of early tournament fans leave as their team loses.

 

It will be interesting to see how the numbers fluctuate throughout the tourney.

 

Those numbers, along with recent year's numbers, should be very helpful and telling if anyone is trying to decide what more centralized facility could hold the event.

 

Then I suppose you could also figure that if it is held in at a more centralized location there's a chance of drawing even more numbers since more will travel if they don't have to travel so far.

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Those numbers are about the same as last year. Here are the numbers after the first 4 sessions for the past four years:

 

 

Attendance down in Girls Sweet 16’s first trip to NKU | | USA Today High School Sports

 

 

Here are total attendance records:

 

http://khsaa.org/records/basketball/gbk-recordbook_sweet16records.pdf

 

1978 23,807

1979 27,043

1980 18,420

1981 21,907

1982 20,406

1983 25,888

1984 24,890

1985 22,511

1986 20,540

1987 22,312

1988 22,868

1989 25,023

1990 21,944

1991 23,778

1992 22,756

1993 27,478

1994 23,484

1995 25,640

1996 25,784

1997 26,213

1998 29,714

1999 25,597

2000 27,922

2001 26,528

2002 26,171

2003 18,544

2004 21,242

2005 23,156

2006 24,883

2007 22,501

2008 23,382

2009 24,706

2010 35,453

2011 43,406

2012 30,382

2013 39,686

2014 31,540

2015 38,489

2016 31,947

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There is a lot of chatter that the Girls Sweet 16 will return to BB&T next year and then move to Rupp Arena in 2019 and be played the same week as the boys tournament in something like a Monday through Sunday setup which may mirror how the All A Tournament is run.

St. Elizabeth has been a terrific partner for the KHSAA and they really like the support they have given the girls Sweet 16 at BB&T.

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EKU honestly would be the best as far as central location. NKU is too far North, WKU is too far south west, Rupp Arena and the Yum Center are too big, Memorial Coliseum is too small, and I can't see it being in Freedom Hall.

 

EKU has the perfect sized arena and is a central location.

 

Memorial Coliseum is not too small, it is actually quite a bit larger than EKU, I believe at least another 3K seats.

 

IMO, I think either place would be a good choice.

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I haven't been to NKU this year. Is the community support greater this year? Last year, you could hardly tell there was a State Tournament going on. I think Community support is a key to making this a bigger event. For girls basketball I don't think you have a large number of casual walk in fans, so the teams involved will determine most of the crowds. The more the teams, coaches, referees, KHSAA personnel, etc. feel appreciated by the community is what I think will determine where the tourney will be played.

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I haven't been to NKU this year. Is the community support greater this year? Last year, you could hardly tell there was a State Tournament going on. I think Community support is a key to making this a bigger event. For girls basketball I don't think you have a large number of casual walk in fans, so the teams involved will determine most of the crowds. The more the teams, coaches, referees, KHSAA personnel, etc. feel appreciated by the community is what I think will determine where the tourney will be played.

 

As mentioned in another thread, you can't even tell NKU just won the Horizon around here let alone a high school tournament is being played.

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There has been no support from the local media, the enquirer has zero about it in the morning paper, I just don't understand why the community don't get behind this event more. Even though I live in Northern Ky, I think Western really supports it being in there community. It is great that ST E is invested in it, but most people have no clue it is even going on. We have two local teams playing and still no support.

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EKU honestly would be the best as far as central location. NKU is too far North, WKU is too far south west, Rupp Arena and the Yum Center are too big, Memorial Coliseum is too small, and I can't see it being in Freedom Hall.

 

EKU has the perfect sized arena and is a central location.

 

Memorial is too small? Might want to recheck your facts...

Frankfort Convention Center - 5000+ seating capacity

Johnson Arena @ Morehead- 6500 seating capacity

Diddle Arena @ WKU - 7326 seating capacity

BB&T @ NKU - 10,000 seating capacity

Memorial @ UK - 10,000 seating capacity

Alumni @ EKU – 6500 seating capacity

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If you scroll down to page 8 it has the highest sessions for the total tournament.

 

If I am not mistaken both of these sessions were Campbell Co & Holmes sessions.

 

2016 (5) - 6056

2016 (2) - 5697

 

Let's not give Campbell all the credit. In session 2 last year they played Trimble and TC had as many fans there as CC. Small county farther away but always travels well.

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