Attendance figures for the quarterfinal round:
NDSU @ South Dakota: 9,141 (132.7% of USD's regular season average of 6,890)
Albany @ Idaho: 9,372 (79.9% of Idaho's regular season average of 11,737)
Furman @ Montana: 20,884 (79.5% of Montana's regular season average of 26,269)
Villanova @ SDSU: 10,216 (56.1% of SDSU's regular season average of 18,208)
These are really good numbers - USD blew away their regular season average, Idaho and Montana getting to 80% with just a week to sell is tickets is pretty darn good, and SDSU getting 10k+ given the weather conditions is still admirable. The quarterfinal average of 12,403 was the highest since 2015 and second highest overall since the field expanded to 24 in 2013. The running average through the first 3 rounds of the playoffs is sitting at 8,433 which is the 3rd highest since 2013 and less than 0.1% (or 8 people on average) behind 2nd place (the 2017 playoffs).
This year probably won't catch the 2015 season (which had huge numbers from NDSU and JSU primarily driving it) but pretty good chance it can catch 2017 - if the weather is decent in Brookings and Missoula I'd expect 35-40k combined between those two games which would bump this year up to #2 in terms of most attended playoffs overall since 2013.
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