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cyhiphopp

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To answer this specific DBags complaint; They tried having the Big12 Basketball tournament in Dallas and still almost no fans from the Texas schools showed up. I think ISU and KU fans still dominated in Dallas.

They had a chance to show out and prove that they could carry the basketball tournament. They failed. It became painfully obvious that the tourney in KC made WAY more money than anywhere else.
 

Cystheman

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None of the southern schools care about basketball. Just look at their average attendances from last year. This is why its in Kansas City, the north schools fill the Sprint Center.

Baylor averaged 6,300 fans/game last year. If they don't go to home games, why would anyone expect them to attend games they need to travel for?

http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/m_basketball_RB/2019/Attendance.pdf
 

AuH2O

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To answer this specific DBags complaint; They tried having the Big12 Basketball tournament in Dallas and still almost no fans from the Texas schools showed up. I think ISU and KU fans still dominated in Dallas.

They had a chance to show out and prove that they could carry the basketball tournament. They failed. It became painfully obvious that the tourney in KC made WAY more money than anywhere else.

They tournament was well attended when it was last in OKC and Dallas, but Texas was good then and made it to the title game in those years. Not to mention the OU and OSU fanbases had not completely evaporated to the pathetic levels they are now.

Right now the conference has wisely placed their bets that KU, ISU or KSU are going to make it to the title game each year. Makes sense. A title game without one of those three would probably suffer from bad attendance in KC. Just like a title game in DFW would suffer if none of the Texas schools made it. One of those two scenarios happens to be a hell of a lot more likely, and the conference made a smart bet.