Nebraska Leads NCAA in Attendance for 4th-Straight Season

For the 4th-straight season, the Nebraska Cornhuskers have ended the NCAA regular season as the national leaders in home attendance.

Nebraska, who have the highest ticket prices in the nation for volleyball, averaged 8,208 fans per game at the DeVaney Center this season. That’s 103.39% of the listed stadium capacity of 7,907. The 2nd-ranked team, Hawaii, drew 6,396 fans per game – meaning Nebraska’s average home crowd was 28% higher than Hawaii’s this season.

Hawaii’s attendance dropped from last year, down from 6,759 last season. The top 5 teams, rounded out by Wisconsin (5,980), Minnesota (5,029) and Penn State (3,615) remained the same from last year – with 4 of them coming from the Big Ten.

The Big Ten, while still easily the dominant team in these rankings, did see an overall drop in rank from last year (though they still improved overall). Only 5 of the top 11 teams in average home attendance this season are from the Big Ten. Last year, 6 of the top 7 came from the Big Ten.

The next best team not in the Big Ten (or Hawaii) is Texas, who checked in at #6 with 3,561 fans per game – up from 2,434 last season.

Among the biggest movers this year was Florida, who saw home attendance jump from 744 last year to 3,305. That’s primarily due to their return to campus at the newly-renovated O’Connell Center, including a huge crowd for their first game back.

Also making a big move was Cal Poly, who won the Big West title and spent much of the season ranked in the top 25. The Mustangs were 26-2 overall this year, and that turned in to them more than doubling their 2016 attendance from 939 fans per game to 2,044 fans per game.

The full rankings as of the end of the regular season is below.

Rank	Institution	Conference	Accum Attendance	Avg Attendance	2016 Avg. Attendance	Change in Avg. Attendance
1	Nebraska	Big Ten	123,116	8,208	8210	-2
2	Hawaii	Big West	121,523	6,396	6759	-363
3	Wisconsin	Big Ten	95,680	5,980	5927	53
4	Minnesota	Big Ten	65,380	5,029	4835	194
5	Penn St.	Big Ten	46,999	3,615	3385	230
6	Texas	Big 12	39,173	3,561	2434	1,127
7	Florida	Southeastern	49,578	3,305	744	2,561
8	Michigan St.	Big Ten	40,834	3,141	2994	147
9	North Carolina	Atlantic Coast	40,226	2,873	2100	773
10	Wichita St.	AAC	29,701	2,700	2264	436
11	Colorado St.	Mountain West	48,698	2,563	2245	318
12	Illinois	Big Ten	30,287	2,524	2586	-62
13	Iowa St.	Big 12	32,431	2,495	2426	69
14	UNI	Missouri Valley	24,376	2,438	2086	352
15	Purdue	Big Ten	35,749	2,383	2537	-154
16	Stanford	Pac-12	25,884	2,353	1847	506
17	Washington	Pac-12	37,071	2,317	2259	58
18	Kentucky	Southeastern	30,086	2,149	1553	596
19	BYU	West Coast	27,915	2,147	1895	252
20	Cal Poly	Big West	16,352	2,044	939	1,105
21	Utah	Pac-12	28,398	2,028	1447	581
22	Creighton	Big East	19,414	1,765	1235	530
23	Iowa	Big Ten	29,983	1,764	1918	-154
24	Kansas St.	Big 12	20,183	1,682	2121	-439
25	Michigan	Big Ten	26,401	1,650	1439	211
26	Oregon	Pac-12	25,870	1,617	1625	-8
27	Missouri	Southeastern	14,394	1,599	2547	-948
28	TCU	Big 12	22,097	1,578	1557	21
29	Texas A&M	Southeastern	21,811	1,558	1718	-160
30	Southern California	Pac-12	18,460	1,538	727	811
31	Arizona	Pac-12	24,356	1,522	1430	92
32	Omaha	Summit League	14,568	1,457	515	942
33	Maryland	Big Ten	22,637	1,415	1148	267
34	North Dakota	Big Sky	16,787	1,399	1090	309
35	Ohio St.	Big Ten	23,391	1,376	1714	-338
36	UCLA	Pac-12	15,057	1,369	1388	-19
37	Georgia	Southeastern	20,076	1,338	792	546
38	Arizona St.	Pac-12	17,101	1,315	1653	-338
39	Colorado	Pac-12	18,291	1,307	1601	-294
40	Kansas	Big 12	15,624	1,302	1283	19
41	South Carolina	Southeastern	19,400	1,293	1094	199
42	LSU	Southeastern	11,686	1,169	928	241
43	Oregon St.	Pac-12	15,015	1,155	949	206
44	Clemson	Atlantic Coast	18,488	1,088	903	185
45	Baylor	Big 12	16,183	1,079	683	396
46	Missouri St.	Missouri Valley	13,920	1,071	851	220
47	NC State	Atlantic Coast	14,835	1,060	1082	-22
48	Duke	Atlantic Coast	15,516	1,034	1388	-354
49	Grand Canyon	Western Athletic	10,007	1,001	712	289
50	Arkansas	Southeastern	12,919	994	828	166
51	Louisville	Atlantic Coast	13,326	952	1965	-1013
52	Texas St.	Sun Belt	13,133	938	902	36
53	Long Beach St.	Big West	13,083	935	1034	-99
54	Florida St.	Atlantic Coast	12,929	924	1120	-196
55	Southern Utah	Big Sky	9,158	916	394	522
56	Incarnate Word	Southland	7,222	903	323	580
57	Notre Dame	Atlantic Coast	15,335	902	1005	-103
58	New Mexico St.	Western Athletic	13,471	898	1042	-144
59	Montana St.	Big Sky	9,599	873	1044	-171
60	Yale	Ivy League	9,552	868	395	473
61	Wyoming	Mountain West	12,913	861	817	44
62	Marquette	Big East	10,981	845	740	105
63	New Mexico	Mountain West	10,821	832	1248	-416
64	Northwestern	Big Ten	8,303	830	962	-132
65	UTSA	Conference USA	6,608	826	611	215
66	Washington St.	Pac-12	11,491	821	1169	-348
67	Virginia Tech	Atlantic Coast	9,822	819	684	135
68	Illinois St.	Missouri Valley	11,307	808	997	-189
69	Northern Colo.	Big Sky	11,284	806	920	-114
70	Fresno St.	Mountain West	8,008	801	798	3
71	Kennesaw St.	ASUN	7,968	797	651	146
72	Indiana	Big Ten	12,487	780	881	-101
73	San Diego	West Coast	10,087	776	536	240
74	Alabama	Southeastern	11,632	775	873	-98
75	North Dakota St.	Summit League	9,147	762	752	10
76	Boise St.	Mountain West	11,297	753	780	-27
77	South Dakota	Summit League	5,232	747	851	-104
78	Oklahoma	Big 12	8,210	746	799	-53
79	UTRGV	Western Athletic	8,861	738	731	7
80	Utah Valley	Western Athletic	8,751	729	761	-32
81	California	Pac-12	12,248	720	695	25
82	Auburn	Southeastern	8,624	719	815	-96
83	UT Arlington	Sun Belt	11,315	707	727	-20
84	Tennessee	Southeastern	10,603	707	963	-256
85	Xavier	Big East	9,678	691	726	-35
86	Utah St.	Mountain West	8,905	685	1013	-328
87	West Virginia	Big 12	8,225	685	521	164
88	Charlotte	Conference USA	8,687	668	582	86
89	Texas Tech	Big 12	7,762	647	502	145
90	Temple	AAC	7,686	641	489	152
91	A&M-Corpus Christi	Southland	7,052	641	537	104
92	Pacific	West Coast	6,253	625	762	-137
93	Georgia Tech	Atlantic Coast	10,540	620	723	-103
94	FGCU	ASUN	8,454	604	526	78
95	Morgan St.	Mid-Eastern	4,230	604	237	367
96	UNCW	Colonial	8,338	596	603	-7
97	Ole Miss	Southeastern	10,715	595	770	-175
98	Oral Roberts	Summit League	5,797	580	495	85
99	Liberty	Big South	6,936	578	932	-354
100	Southern Ill.	Missouri Valley	6,361	578	388	190
101	Valparaiso	Missouri Valley	6,340	576	360	216
102	Abilene Christian	Southland	4,575	572	461	111
103	Bowling Green	Mid-American	7,414	570	567	3
104	Pittsburgh	Atlantic Coast	7,402	569	437	132
105	Dayton	Atlantic 10	6,259	569	819	-250
106	Virginia	Atlantic Coast	8,988	562	683	-121
107	Western Mich.	Mid-American	5,585	559	602	-43
108	Marshall	Conference USA	6,106	555	512	43
109	CSU Bakersfield	Western Athletic	4,417	552	457	95
110	Sam Houston St.	Southland	5,483	548	283	265
111	Idaho St.	Big Sky	4,933	548	581	-33
112	Gonzaga	West Coast	6,536	545	603	-58
113	Ball St.	Mid-American	7,046	542	695	-153
114	Col. of Charleston	Colonial	7,975	532	421	111
115	VCU	Atlantic 10	6,346	529	425	104
116	Miami (FL)	Atlantic Coast	5,287	529	394	135
117	Butler	Big East	7,850	523	496	27
118	Belmont	OVC	6,752	519	367	152
119	Miami (OH)	Mid-American	7,202	514	488	26
120	Northern Ariz.	Big Sky	5,504	500	545	-45
121	Campbell	Big South	5,993	499	368	131
122	UNCG	Southern	8,950	497	401	96
123	Idaho	Big Sky	3,969	496	465	31
124	Ohio	Mid-American	5,890	491	2106	-1615
125	Kent St.	Mid-American	4,903	490	491	-1
126	Montana	Big Sky	3,896	487	434	53
127	Fort Wayne	Summit League	5,837	486	483	3
128	Cincinnati	AAC	4,323	480	636	-156
129	Little Rock	Sun Belt	4,287	476	436	40
130	Western Ky.	Conference USA	7,122	475	919	-444
131	Drake	Missouri Valley	6,175	475	388	87
132	Radford	Big South	4,726	473	292	181
133	Chattanooga	Southern	6,606	472	382	90
134	SMU	AAC	7,301	456	377	79
135	Santa Clara	West Coast	5,009	455	362	93
136	Northern Ill.	Mid-American	5,429	452	549	-97
137	UCF	AAC	4,977	452	281	171
138	Louisiana	Sun Belt	6,280	449	297	152
139	Arkansas St.	Sun Belt	6,234	445	417	28
140	Prairie View	Southwestern	2,651	442	159	283
141	UC Irvine	Big West	5,231	436	393	43
142	Rice	Conference USA	5,991	428	462	-34
143	Air Force	Mountain West	5,519	425	301	124
144	Coastal Caro.	Sun Belt	2,929	418	421	-3
145	Bradley	Missouri Valley	7,096	417	418	-1
146	Troy	Sun Belt	5,844	417	598	-181
147	Central Mich.	Mid-American	4,585	417	396	21
148	South Ala.	Sun Belt	4,949	412	161	251
149	East Carolina	AAC	7,359	409	521	-112
150	Weber St.	Big Sky	4,049	405	398	7
151	Rutgers	Big Ten	4,449	404	246	158
152	San Jose St.	Mountain West	4,831	403	338	65
153	South Fla.	AAC	5,137	395	363	32
154	Austin Peay	OVC	5,859	391	302	89
155	UMES	Mid-Eastern	5,077	391	511	-120
156	Mississippi St.	Southeastern	6,615	389	548	-159
157	Villanova	Big East	5,053	389	198	191
158	Louisiana Tech	Conference USA	3,870	387	279	108
159	Davidson	Atlantic 10	3,853	385	438	-53
160	UC Davis	Big West	4,557	380	404	-24
161	Central Ark.	Southland	5,305	379	275	104
162	CSUN	Big West	4,167	379	505	-126
163	Milwaukee	Horizon	4,914	378	322	56
164	Sacramento St.	Big Sky	4,889	376	305	71
165	New Hampshire	America East	3,746	375	394	-19
166	Navy	Patriot	4,488	374	392	-18
167	Cleveland St.	Horizon	3,736	374	288	86
168	Ga. Southern	Sun Belt	4,476	373	271	102
169	Seton Hall	Big East	4,470	373	306	67
170	Boston College	Atlantic Coast	5,952	372	308	64
171	Green Bay	Horizon	3,709	371	360	11
172	Houston Baptist	Southland	3,675	368	294	74
173	North Florida	ASUN	3,666	367	303	64
174	North Texas	Conference USA	5,497	366	429	-63
175	UNC Asheville	Big South	3,282	365	276	89
176	Princeton	Ivy League	2,893	362	479	-117
177	Portland St.	Big Sky	2,885	361	248	113
178	Loyola Chicago	Missouri Valley	4,678	360	338	22
179	Furman	Southern	3,238	360	402	-42
180	Samford	Southern	4,295	358	283	75
181	Akron	Mid-American	3,918	356	318	38
182	South Dakota St.	Summit League	3,514	351	387	-36
183	Wake Forest	Atlantic Coast	4,520	348	225	123
184	UNLV	Mountain West	5,534	346	451	-105
185	Wright St.	Horizon	3,800	345	323	22
186	UT Martin	OVC	2,751	344	286	58
187	San Diego St.	Mountain West	5,114	341	313	28
188	Quinnipiac	Metro Atlantic	3,068	341	341	0
189	Northwestern St.	Southland	3,057	340	277	63
190	Loyola Marymount	West Coast	4,383	337	550	-213
191	High Point	Big South	4,685	335	653	-318
192	Elon	Colonial	4,654	332	313	19
193	Southeast Mo. St.	OVC	3,974	331	288	43
194	Bryant	Northeast	4,295	330	187	143
195	Fordham	Atlantic 10	3,294	329	300	29
196	Wofford	Southern	2,946	327	284	43
197	UConn	AAC	4,541	324	351	-27
198	American	Patriot	5,793	322	372	-50
199	SFA	Southland	4,174	321	308	13
200	Evansville	Missouri Valley	3,809	317	205	112
201	Lipscomb	ASUN	4,090	315	331	-16
202	Toledo	Mid-American	4,389	314	431	-117
203	Southern Miss.	Conference USA	4,062	312	346	-34
204	Delaware	Colonial	2,483	310	408	-98
205	Morehead St.	OVC	4,604	307	484	-177
206	USC Upstate	ASUN	2,149	307	136	171
207	Pepperdine	West Coast	4,579	305	412	-107
208	Nevada	Mountain West	3,917	301	380	-79
209	IUPUI	Horizon	3,610	301	254	47
210	Memphis	AAC	3,602	300	410	-110
211	Tulsa	AAC	3,263	297	267	30
212	Alabama A&M	Southwestern	1,783	297	157	140
213	UC Riverside	Big West	3,260	296	295	1
214	Bethune-Cookman	Mid-Eastern	2,366	296	280	16
215	Portland	West Coast	4,432	295	337	-42
216	Saint Louis	Atlantic 10	3,821	294	357	-63
217	Buffalo	Mid-American	3,208	292	231	61
218	Lamar University	Southland	2,627	292	288	4
219	Fairfield	Metro Atlantic	4,001	286	211	75
220	Middle Tenn.	Conference USA	2,828	283	231	52
221	UC Santa Barbara	Big West	3,080	280	256	24
222	St. John’s (NY)	Big East	4,191	279	263	16
223	Rider	Metro Atlantic	3,342	279	217	62
224	Colgate	Patriot	3,045	277	361	-84
225	Houston	AAC	4,134	276	389	-113
226	DePaul	Big East	3,263	272	495	-223
227	Tulane	AAC	5,148	271	179	92
228	Ill.-Chicago	Horizon	3,175	265	247	18
229	Mississippi Val.	Southwestern	1,833	262	164	98
230	Oakland	Horizon	2,875	261	383	-122
231	SIUE	OVC	3,636	260	307	-47
232	Northern Ky.	Horizon	2,839	258	265	-7
233	George Washington	Atlantic 10	3,597	257	265	-8
234	Cornell	Ivy League	2,567	257	244	13
235	Mercer	Southern	2,820	256	358	-102
236	UTEP	Conference USA	3,510	251	583	-332
237	Syracuse	Atlantic Coast	3,453	247	257	-10
238	Murray St.	OVC	2,221	247	419	-172
239	Tennessee Tech	OVC	1,957	245	311	-66
240	James Madison	Colonial	4,140	244	406	-162
241	Penn	Ivy League	2,169	241	234	7
242	Ark.-Pine Bluff	Southwestern	1,199	240	114	126
243	Alabama St.	Southwestern	3,818	239	182	57
244	Indiana St.	Missouri Valley	2,628	239	264	-25
245	Georgia St.	Sun Belt	2,381	238	255	-17
246	Western Ill.	Summit League	3,313	237	190	47
247	Jacksonville St.	OVC	3,085	237	581	-344
248	McNeese	Southland	2,368	237	252	-15
249	Georgetown	Big East	3,039	234	240	-6
250	Hartford	America East	2,561	233	348	-115
251	Western Caro.	Southern	2,991	230	190	40
252	ETSU	Southern	1,841	230	224	6
253	Jackson St.	Southwestern	1,827	228	208	20
254	Cal St. Fullerton	Big West	3,370	225	360	-135
255	George Mason	Atlantic 10	2,926	225	324	-99
256	New Orleans	Southland	2,475	225	277	-52
257	Denver	Summit League	3,356	224	289	-65
258	Army West Point	Patriot	3,341	223	247	-24
259	Winthrop	Big South	1,997	222	254	-32
260	Youngstown St.	Horizon	2,844	219	258	-39
261	Rhode Island	Atlantic 10	2,188	219	408	-189
262	Appalachian St.	Sun Belt	2,388	217	296	-79
263	Saint Mary’s (CA)	West Coast	2,597	216	223	-7
264	Albany (NY)	America East	2,160	216	229	-13
265	Manhattan	Metro Atlantic	2,370	215	236	-21
266	Northeastern	Colonial	2,572	214	231	-17
267	Dartmouth	Ivy League	2,138	214	210	4
268	Eastern Ill.	OVC	2,968	212	160	52
269	Hofstra	Colonial	2,333	212	213	-1
270	Harvard	Ivy League	2,479	207	270	-63
271	Eastern Wash.	Big Sky	1,659	207	364	-157
272	Tennessee St.	OVC	2,268	206	197	9
273	Southern U.	Southwestern	825	206	99	107
274	Eastern Mich.	Mid-American	1,823	203	294	-91
275	South Carolina St.	Mid-Eastern	1,422	203	232	-29
276	Hampton	Mid-Eastern	1,421	203	199	4
277	Presbyterian	Big South	2,019	202	305	-103
278	Brown	Ivy League	1,611	201	182	19
279	N.C. Central	Mid-Eastern	1,607	201	216	-15
280	Bucknell	Patriot	2,169	197	131	66
281	Eastern Ky.	OVC	1,760	196	165	31
282	Canisius	Metro Atlantic	2,339	195	236	-41
283	Providence	Big East	2,908	194	191	3
284	Columbia	Ivy League	1,740	193	160	33
285	Grambling	Southwestern	1,351	193	297	-104
286	Duquesne	Atlantic 10	2,258	188	134	54
287	Stony Brook	America East	1,503	188	339	-151
288	Central Conn. St.	Northeast	1,312	187	153	34
289	La.-Monroe	Sun Belt	1,853	185	165	20
290	Binghamton	America East	1,278	183	283	-100
291	Marist	Metro Atlantic	1,968	179	195	-16
292	Gardner-Webb	Big South	2,129	177	524	-347
293	Southeastern La.	Southland	1,595	177	169	8
294	Nicholls St.	Southland	1,584	176	255	-79
295	Norfolk St.	Mid-Eastern	1,233	176	125	51
296	Lafayette	Patriot	2,253	173	145	28
297	N.C. A&T	Mid-Eastern	1,721	172	116	56
298	Loyola Maryland	Patriot	2,045	170	195	-25
299	Coppin St.	Mid-Eastern	1,190	170	103	67
300	Texas Southern	Southwestern	1,669	167	216	-49
301	William & Mary	Colonial	1,978	165	261	-96
302	Lehigh	Patriot	2,607	163	165	-2
303	Towson	Colonial	2,097	161	185	-24
304	Fla. Atlantic	Conference USA	1,614	161	149	12
305	Seattle U	Western Athletic	1,446	161	166	-5
306	Stetson	ASUN	2,063	159	213	-54
307	Alcorn	Southwestern	1,721	156	94	62
308	UMKC	Western Athletic	1,527	153	221	-68
309	Niagara	Metro Atlantic	1,370	152	141	11
310	UMass Lowell	America East	1,218	152	197	-45
311	NJIT	ASUN	1,661	151	214	-63
312	Robert Morris	Northeast	1,495	150	146	4
313	Charleston So.	Big South	1,354	150	349	-199
314	UMBC	America East	1,327	147	188	-41
315	Jacksonville	ASUN	1,594	145	300	-155
316	UAB	Conference USA	2,302	144	231	-87
317	Savannah St.	Mid-Eastern	1,007	144	120	24
318	Saint Francis (PA)	Northeast	1,472	134	149	-15
319	Sacred Heart	Northeast	1,403	128	285	-157
320	FIU	Conference USA	1,156	128	242	-114
321	San Francisco	West Coast	1,754	125	201	-76
322	Saint Peter’s	Metro Atlantic	1,490	124	90	34
323	The Citadel	Southern	1,724	123	148	-25
324	Holy Cross	Patriot	1,351	123	273	-150
325	La Salle	Atlantic 10	1,578	121	107	14
326	Florida A&M	Mid-Eastern	841	120	119	1
327	Delaware St.	Mid-Eastern	645	108	87	21
328	Iona	Metro Atlantic	1,155	105	135	-30
329	St. Francis Brooklyn	Northeast	1,154	105	142	-37
330	LIU Brooklyn	Northeast	1,135	103	136	-33
331	Fairleigh Dickinson	Northeast	988	99	128	-29
332	Siena	Metro Atlantic	850	94	148	-54
333	Chicago St.	Western Athletic	1,153	89	139	-50
334	Howard	Mid-Eastern	1,019	85	204	-119

Nebraska Leads NCAA in Attendance for 4th-Straight Season

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