IU ranks No. 6 in attendance

Despite finishing the year with a 7-11 record in the Big Ten and not making the NCAA Tournament or the NIT, IU basketball was still one of the hottest tickets in the country.

IU was ranked No. 6 in the nation for attendance during the 2013-14 season, with an average of 17,359 fans per game.

Assembly Hall has a capacity of 17,472. Therefore, on average, Assembly Hall was 99.35-percent full this season.

The Hoosiers also led the Big Ten in attendance, which was the highest ranked conference for attendance for the 38th consecutive year.

Of the 25 programs with the highest attendance, nine came from the Big Ten.

Immediately following the Hoosiers in the national attendance rankings was Wisconsin at No. 7 and Ohio State at No. 8.

Purdue ranked No. 23 in the nation in attendance, but Mackey Arena averaged only a 85.8-percent capacity.

Of the top 10 teams in the nation for attendance, IU was the only one to not make the NCAA Tournament.

Since 1972, IU has never finished  worse than 17th in the nation in attendance.

Evan Hoopfer