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Attendance Surge: causal factors?

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Chris_NH

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Watching BC-UMASS on ESPN+ tonight and once again the crowd is a great one out in Amherst. I’m sure the turnaround back at BC will equal or better it.

Generally speaking, I think a lot of other teams are experiencing this.

Is it because crowds were rather ‘depressed’ the past few years and this is a return to ‘normal?’ Or is this truly a growth year?
 
Chris_NH said:
Watching BC-UMASS on ESPN+ tonight and once again the crowd is a great one out in Amherst. I’m sure the turnaround back at BC will equal or better it.

Generally speaking, I think a lot of other teams are experiencing this.

Is it because crowds were rather ‘depressed’ the past few years and this is a return to ‘normal?’ Or is this truly a growth year?
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I haven't looked into it a ton but I think we may be seeing a resurgence in hockey east because the level of play has been so good this year. I did look into BC's away games this year and almost every single one of their away games has been a sell out in addition to their own awesome attendance, it's pretty wild. Really fun year
 
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Plus, 18,285 for both rounds of the Beanpot (Feb 5 & 12) and 18,410 for Michigan-Michigan State on Feb 10.

The new arenas that have been coming online are part of the answer as is TV exposure both locally and nationally through ESPN+. But it's deeper than that. UMass has always been hoops-centric but that's been turning around; BC hockey handily outdraws BC hoops (even though it's an ACC team). Same for Northeastern, BU, Maine, and NH. Providence and UConn not so much.
 
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Michigan State has sold out every game this season. While I think it’s mostly because of the success after a decade+ in the wilderness, I’d love to hear our society in general is making a return to in-person entertainment rather than content+media consumption. That’s probably wishful thinking but it’s nice to hear college hockey around the country is popular again.
 
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