re: How do we increase basketball support?

They need to move the student section to like it was in the old days. The TV cameras were always on the students in background.
The students were behind the opponent’s goal in the second half.
The atmosphere was 100 times better even when the crowd was relatively small (4-5K). Why? Because the students were rowdy. The current seating arrangement for students totally sucks.

I do agree that TV and game starting times have hurt attendance. I also think it is economics. The girls were killing it for several years and it was cost prohibitive and exhausting for people to make back to back trips to Starkvegas for basketball games. Often you had games on Wed-Thu and/or Sat-Sun. That is a lot of travel for people from out of town.

TV has totally screwed with the game times. On a weekday they are either 6 or 8P. 6P is too early for working people especially from anywhere outside of 50 miles from campus. 8P OTOH is too late for someone driving back home after a game if it is not over until 1015-1030.

The 7P tip off was perfect for weeknight games.

All that said, this team has a lot of potential and I think crowds will be big and enthusiastic going forward. My nephew is a student and he has been to all the games except for last week and said the Hump has been rocking for the most part. He said the team fun to watch.

Last Wednesday was very understandable that there was a small crowd given we played an out of town bowl game the night before, 4P start time, no students and the weather.