Not a great start but that was kind of expected given how difficult it is to draw on Thanksgiving weekend and all the host schools drew less than 10k fans on average in the regular season this year.

Holy Cross/Monmoth: 2,817 (101.6% of Monmouth's regular season average of 2,774)
CCSU/Albany: 1,660 (39.6% of Albany's regular season average of 4,191)
Furman/Austin Peay: 3,559 (48.6% of Austin Peay's regular season average of 7,317)
Illinois St/Southeast Missouri St: 3,274 (72.8% of SEMO's regular season average of 4,498)
San Diego/UNI: 3,743 (40.6% of UNI's regular season average of 9,213)
UND/Nicholls: 7,569 (112.4% of Nicholls' regular season average of 6,730)
Kennesaw St/Wofford: 1,992 (41.7% of Wofford's regular season average of 4,775)
Villanova/Southeastern Louisiana: 4,173 (59.6% of SLU's regular season average of 7,002)

Nice job by Monmouth and Nicholls to outdraw their regular season averages... that's no easy feat on Thanksgiving weekend.

The average of 3,598 fans comes in 6th out of the last 7 years (since the field expanded to 24 in 2013).

First Round Attendance Averages
2014: 7,297
2018: 6,373
2015: 5,634
2017: 4,958
2013: 4,502
2019: 3,598
2016: 3,408

Things should pick up next week with JMU, Montana, Montana St, and NDSU all hosting.