(03-01-2018 04:37 PM)billybobby777 Wrote:  

(03-01-2018 04:19 PM)MWC Tex Wrote:  

(03-01-2018 03:33 PM)dbackjon Wrote:  

(03-01-2018 03:19 PM)MWC Tex Wrote:  

(03-01-2018 03:11 PM)stever20 Wrote:  not in one of the "p8"? Dayton? BYU? UMass?

No of those are what are consider major/power schools in basketball. Especially BYU, basketball isn't their forte'

http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/m_basketba...d/2017.pdf
Attendance wise, they are

Non P5+BE+AAC+MWC top average
14 - BYU - 14,476 (Better than any AA or MWC)
22 - Dayton - 13,018 (better than any AAC or MWC)
66 - VCU - 7.637
78 - Weber St - 6,869
81 - ODU - 6,572


Ohio, Richmond, Illinis St, Siena, MTSU, Marshall, Bradley and Rhode Island are all top 100 as well.

Attendance doesn't make a power school. Wins...especially tourney wins is what makes the school a power school. GU has done that for over 10 years....BYU...not so much.

Attendance is pretty important. In fact, that’s the biggest attribute the MWC has going for it in basketball. Always 7th in attendance in basketball. The AAC is 8th. The rest of the conferences outside those 8 struggle mightily in getting butts in the seats. The A10 has schools like Dayton that are great in attendance every year, but the majority of A10 schools can’t get butts in the seats. Not as bad the Gonzaga high school gym conference...but pretty bad these days.

Plus, I'd say that Dayton and BYU have enough wins to claim to be "major" schools.

Dayton: 42nd on all-time wins list with 1,623; 18 NCAA appearances; 19 tourney wins; 7 Sweet 16s, 1 Final Four
BYU: 12th on all-time wins list with 1,808; 29 NCAA appearances; 15 tourney wins, 7 Sweet 16s

Combined with their attendance, that makes them "major" schools.

The only other non-P8 that are even close in those metrics are Western Kentucky, Bradley, St. Joe's, San Francisco, Princeton, and Penn - and they're nowhere close to being "major" in attendance.