NCAA Attendance Report | NCAA Release

WICHITA, Kan. – The NCAA released its annual attendance report for the 2015-16 men's basketball season. Wichita State – which sold out all 15 home dates – tied a school attendance record, originally set last year, and topped the Missouri Valley Conference for the third-consecutive year.
 
Shocker home games averaged 10,805 fans – good for 37^th nationally. WSU maxed out 10,506-seat Charles Koch Arena on 14 occasions and upped its average with a sellout against Utah at INTRUST Bank Arena (15,004 seats) during its annual downtown date.
 
WSU has sold out 41-consecutive Wichita dates, with the last sub-capacity crowd coming Dec. 14, 2014 when it drew 14, 356 to an INTRUST Bank Arena game against Tennessee.
 
A feature article in the June, 2016 Basketball Times lists WSU's active run of 45-consecutive Charles Koch Arena sellouts as the seventh-longest home court streak in Division I, and attendance has topped the 10,000-mark at 181-consecutive regular season games, stretching back over a decade to December, 2004.
 
The ACC, Big East, Big 12, Big Ten, PAC-12 and SEC dominated the list. WSU is only school from outside those six conferences to sell out every home date and average north of 10,000 fans-per-game.
 
Fellow MVC members Bradley (5,953), UNI (5,378) and Southern Illinois (5,277) also made the top-100. Evansville's 22-percent attendance increase (from 4,224 to 5,147) was one of the nation's largest jumps.
 
Overall, the Missouri Valley ranked ninth nationally out of 32 Division I conferences at 5,051-per-contest, and its Arch Madness was the seventh-best attended conference tournament at 10,004-per-game.
 
The NCAA does not keep an official tally of sellouts, but the list of schools that max out home attendance for an entire season is typically a short one.
 
According to the Basketball Times article, WSU's run of Charles Koch Arena sellouts – which began on Senior Night during the 2012-13 season --  trails only Duke (406 at Cameron Indoor Stadium), Michigan State (287 at Breslin Student Events Center), Kansas (243 at Allen Fieldhouse), Gonzaga (208 at McCarthey Athletics Center), Villanova (173 at The Pavilion) and VCU (83 at the Siegel Center). Villanova plays a handful of games each year in front of sub-capacity crowds at the 21,600-seat Wells Fargo Center. San Diego State has sold out 72-straight regular season games but came up short during this year's NIT.