MORGANTOWN, W.Va.– Totaling 49,648 fans at the WVU Coliseum, the West Virginia women’s basketball team set a school record for total and average home attendance during the 2011 season.
WVU’s previous school record for total home attendance was set in 2010 with 33,094 fans. The new record ranked 35th of all NCAA Division I programs. The Mountaineers held the fourth-highest attendance numbers within the BIG EAST Conference, behind league-leading Louisville, Connecticut and Notre Dame.
Most notably, WVU had the fifth-largest per game increase nationally from the 2010 season as it went from an average of 1,947 fans to 3,103 in 2011, an increase of 1,156 fans. Helping to attain their record attendance, the Mountaineers had six of the top 20 crowds in WVU Coliseum history.
Of 31 conferences and seven independent teams, the BIG EAST Conference recorded the fourth-highest attendance figures with a conference record 889,026 fans attending women’s games this year. The Big 12 Conference led the way with just over one million and the Big Ten and Southeastern Conferences took second and third, respectively.
Overall, NCAA Division I women’s basketball experienced record-high attendance numbers for the fourth-straight year as it surpassed the previous record of 8,090,084 fans set in 2008, with an all-time high of 8,127,779.
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