CBI Rd1: Richmond @ Virginia

[MacabreMob]

Got a little office pool going?

I participated in the "pool" on this website. (for poopies and chuckles)

[BuBraves55]

uva got by far the largest attendance at 4000 in the cbi
others were between 1400 and 3000
thats sad

[BradleyBrave]

Houston by 1! What an opening night for the CBI. 4 games decided by a total of 12 points. The organizers certainly couldn't ask for a better opening night game-wise. Let's hope the quality of the gate matches the quality of the games.

[tornado]

uva got by far the largest attendance at 4000 in the cbi
others were between 1400 and 3000
thats sad

In the NIT last night, Creighton drew only 7948, about a half full Qwest Center, and SIU drew 5353.
Ohio State drew 7117, Syracuse 10,536, but the rest were terrible...with even big schools like Minnesota, Az State, and Florida State drawing just 2-4,000

[BradleyBrave]

uva got by far the largest attendance at 4000 in the cbi
others were between 1400 and 3000
thats sad

I would agree that the attendance probably wasn't good, but how big were their arenas? I guess if they played in cracker-jack boxes that were half full it might not seem as bad. Here was the attendance for all of the NIT games last night -

2,112 (UMass)
2,830 (Florida State)
3,882 (Minnesota)
4,358 (Arizona State)
5,353 (Southern Illinois)
7,117 (Ohio State)
7,948 (Creighton)
10,536 (Syracuse)

Attendance was poor for the NIT as well.