03-26-2012, 09:19 AM
Two points:
First, this quote from the article:
A couple thousand Stanford fans have made the three-hour trip from the Bay Area. Like most of this season's average Maples Pavilion crowd of 4,250 - the men averaged 6,856 - they are staunchly loyal to VanDerveer's program.
Having had season tickets to both and attended 90% of the games of both this year, I'm pretty confident in saying that, while the women's number seems accurate, the men's number is totally bogus, at least in terms of actual bodies in the building. The men probably did draw more [although I'm not 100% sure of that], but the gap was nowhere near that large.
Second, I really hate these types of articles, since they undoubtedly find their way into the recruiting packets used by other schools. It's not that they reveal "secret information" that isn't otherwise available to potential recruits, but still... Especially when they quote players. :o
Of course, there's nothing like, say, a national championship to bring people in... Go Card!