by Rogobob77 » Tue Mar 06, 2018 11:07 pm
Attendance for the day at the LCA was 7,595. That counts for both the men’s and women’s championship games.
(Monday’s semi-finals round had 5,398 in attendance; the Sunday crowd was 6,772.)
As I previously posted, the championship game in the MVC’s “Arch Madness” in St. Louis drew 8,056, and that had the advantage of being played on a weekend date. It’s unfortunate that Detroit Mercy and Oakland have performed so poorly in the MCM these past three years, a missed opportunity to catch up with or surpass the MVC in attendance for the league playoffs.
I predict going forward the next two years, they’ll jestison the WBB tournament to a separate site and have only the final 8 or 4 for the MBB tournament in Detroit in a shortened (three or two consecutive days) format.