SEC Basketball Arenas Fan Attendance Compared to Duke

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They are a small school with a national alumni base. I'm sure they have more alums in the Triangle and Charlotte than other places, but I doubt they would pack out a 30K arena for Tuesday night games against Miami.

They could certainly have a bigger arena than Cameron Indoor and fill it, though. Cameron Indoor seats 9,314. They'd probably have consistent sellouts at 10-11K (Ole Miss/Auburn size).

I don't think they consistently sell out Coleman Coliseum or the PMAC, and they certainly wouldn't at Thompson Boling or Rupp.

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Mike Patrick on his farewell tour just said Duke could build a 30k arena and fill it up, but they'll never do it because Cameron Indoor is special or some bullshite like that.

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I've been in Cameron Indoor when it was empty. Its a tiny old POS. The only thing special about it is the teams that have played in it.
Most high schools built this century probably have a nicer gym. Because that's what Cameron Indoor really is. I wouldn't describe it as an arena, I would say its a gym.

They have truckloads of front running sidewalk fans. But no they couldn't fill a 30k seat arena. frick UNC and Duke.

Duke doesn't have the fan base to fill an arena near that size. Their fan base is a joke.

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Besides being a bunch of fricking pricks, what's their fan base like? Maybe South Carolina posters would know best.

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I live 20 minutes from the NC border, with the closest major town being Whiteville. When you cross the state line where I'm at, you begin seeing NC State and East Carolina tags and flags. There is a sizeable UNC contingent but almost zero Duke presence, along with a sizeable USC and Clemson contingent closer to Richmond and Scotland Counties.

NC natives all view Duke as a foreign Yankee enclave within a Southern state. The only thing close to it in the SEC would be how LSU people view Tulane, given the latter's sizeable population of Yankee students.

As for the Gamecock fanbase, our hatred of Duke is actually less than our hatred of UNC. The NC schools, primarily UNC, ran the conference back in the late 1960's and treated us and Clemson like stepchildren. We bolted because of it, but the hatred hasn't stopped. I can't stand UNC or Duke, but NC State, Wake Forest and ECU all are good people imo.

Duke is a little bit different from UNC fans in NC. UNC alumni paid for and built Dean Center to honor Dean Smith, when UNC was perfectly happy with Carmicheal and didn't even ask for it. So they've had two basketball arenas ever since, which is actually a bit of an annoyance for the UNC Ath. Dept. to maintain, but no matter.

Duke will one day be forced to build another basketball arena, and when that happens, I can see them perhaps upgrading to 12K-15K, but no more. The atmosphere in Cameron is as much as their tradition as anything else about their MBB program. They didn't even win their first title until into the 90s. With Duke its more about their image as an ivy league institution than being a big sports university, even as they win national titles.....

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but NC State, Wake Forest and ECU all are good people imo

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all good points. makes sense. I think it's the media attention BJ's and bandwagon fans, I've just always disliked Duke. Sure is good to come in here and bash Duke with you baws.

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They are a small school with a national alumni base. I'm sure they have more alums in the Triangle and Charlotte than other places, but I doubt they would pack out a 30K arena for Tuesday night games against Miami.

They could certainly have a bigger arena than Cameron Indoor and fill it, though. Cameron Indoor seats 9,314. They'd probably have consistent sellouts at 10-11K (Ole Miss/Auburn size).

I don't think they consistently sell out Coleman Coliseum or the PMAC, and they certainly wouldn't at Thompson Boling or Rupp.

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No.

The Pavilion at Ole Miss is a multi-purpose arena on the campus of the University of Mississippi in Oxford, Mississippi. The $96.5 million multipurpose arena is home to the University of Mississippi Rebels men's and women's basketball teams, with seating for up to 9,500 people.

I lived just outside of Asheville NC from 2001 to 2008. The Tar heels probably have as many fans as Duke, UNC and Wake combined state wide.