Arch Madness Seating Chart

[MissouriValleyUnite]

They didn’t publicly release one last year but one was hanging in the hotel lobby.

112-115
lower - bradley
middle - siu
higher - isub

117-120
lower - evansville
middle - uni
higher - valpo

104-106
lower/middle - loyola
higher - missouri st

126-102
lower/middle - isur
higher - drake

Center court reserved for league office & corporate sponsors.

Ends for ticket discount packages.

This year they’ll probably alter which teams sit where.

[Saluki 4 Life]

Will attendance be up this year since there are 6 teams who can win the tourney, or will it be down because no one thinks their team can win 3/ games in a row?

I will guess down. ISUR and SIU fans going to be way down on their teams, thats going to hurt. Loyola and Drake wont be huge draws... I think its going to be a rough year.

Loyola Athletics Department does not seem to be doing as much as they did last year to promote it.

even when they did they did not bring nearly what the MVC needs from a 1 seed and heavy favorite... I mean no disrespect at all... Wichita and Creighton used to fill up 1/8 of the arena by themselves and SIU would fill that too when they were good... WIth SIU being bad and the top teams not being be draws this tournament has suffered severely...

[MissouriValleyUnite]

No one should be held to WSU/Creighton expectations...they’re intrinsically structured as the “pro” team of Omaha and Wichita to draw 16k and 11k.

Loyola’s on sellout #5 with MO State Sunday (Furman, Nevada, Illinois St, SIU). Indiana St & Valpo soldout games vs Loyola. Gentile has a rabid student section. Let’s point thumbs not fingers.

[Kyle@MOState]

I have a feeling that interest in Missouri State basketball is slowly increasing this year... They would pretty much have to win out in order to really capture the attention of the regular citizen that used to come out. That being said, I would imagine a slight uptick in St. Louis attendance this year from Bears fans. Probably not enough to really move the needle, but I know there will be some fans coming for the first time in quite a few years. These were the people that were defiantly disengaged due to Lusk still being the coach. I don't understand that logic, but to each his own.

[ValleyFAN]

No one should be held to WSU/Creighton expectations...they’re intrinsically structured as the “pro” team of Omaha and Wichita to draw 16k and 11k.

Loyola’s on sellout #5 with MO State Sunday (Furman, Nevada, Illinois St, SIU). Indiana St & Valpo soldout games vs Loyola. Gentile has a rabid student section. Let’s point thumbs not fingers.

Its not hard to sell out a high school sized gym in one of the largest metro areas in the country. Loyola is 7th in the conference is attendance. Even in a high school sized gym they are averaging more than 1,200 below capacity

[municup14]

I can see Evansville bringing more people than the past.Always brought a halfway decent amount of people.
This year I believe the Tournament could be won by any of the teams.So with UE averaging over 5000 fans
for MVC games we could bring a lot of fans,for our Thursday P.I.G

[goramblers2011]

No one should be held to WSU/Creighton expectations...they’re intrinsically structured as the “pro” team of Omaha and Wichita to draw 16k and 11k.

Loyola’s on sellout #5 with MO State Sunday (Furman, Nevada, Illinois St, SIU). Indiana St & Valpo soldout games vs Loyola. Gentile has a rabid student section. Let’s point thumbs not fingers.

Its not hard to sell out a high school sized gym in one of the largest metro areas in the country. Loyola is 7th in the conference is attendance. Even in a high school sized gym they are averaging more than 1,200 below capacity

Oh it's not? Tell that to DePaul, UIC and Northwestern. For that matter, tell that to any school in NYC and LA.

Loyola is averaging 80% capacity this year and will likely finish with six sellouts. The second highest capacity percentage is 57%.

And if you averaged out our away attendance, I'm sure that would be the highest as well (Indiana State and Valpo both sold out their home games vs Loyola, Bradley and ISU has probably their biggest crowds of the year.)

This is not the year to bash Loyola in an attendance discussion.

[ahunte1]

Its not hard to sell out a high school sized gym in one of the largest metro areas in the country.

If only this were true.

[ptownbraves]

And if you averaged out our away attendance, I'm sure that would be the highest as well (Indiana State and Valpo both sold out their home games vs Loyola, Bradley and ISU has probably their biggest crowds of the year.)

This is not the year to bash Loyola in an attendance discussion.

Loyola has a ways to go before they will draw more than a Bradley vs. ISUr game in Peoria. Same can probably be said for BloNo.

The Loyola game ranks #5 in attendance in Peoria this year, with ISUr (7,122), SIU (5,968), Indiana State (5,805), and New Mexico (5,494) better attended than Loyola (5,490).

[Saluki 4 Life]

No one should be held to WSU/Creighton expectations...they’re intrinsically structured as the “pro” team of Omaha and Wichita to draw 16k and 11k.

Loyola’s on sellout #5 with MO State Sunday (Furman, Nevada, Illinois St, SIU). Indiana St & Valpo soldout games vs Loyola. Gentile has a rabid student section. Let’s point thumbs not fingers.

I am not pointing fingers... I am just saying a first place team and heavy favorite barely took up a full section at Arch Madness a year ago... I do not think they should be held to those expectations either. That is why its paramount the fan bases at SIU, ILL ST and Bradley have enthusiasm heading to March or attendance is going to be down. I do not intend to be disrespectful, that's just how I see it. A few years ago they were the 4/5 game I remember vividly because they played SIU... They had like 100 fans there? maybe less? they are so easy to spot in their scarves... But seriously, they took up like a bottom corner of a section that year... They just don't pull a large amount of fans...