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Watching Numbers
Published: 11/8/2008 7:30 PM
Last Modified: 11/8/2008 7:30 PM

One of the assets that made the Oklahoma State job so attractive to new basketball coach Travis Ford is that his teams would get to play in packed Gallagher-Iba Arena, alias the rowdiest arena in the country.
But will he get what he expected?
It's unfair to judge what regular season crowds will be based on exhibition games, especially when an exhibition finale Saturday came on a day when fans were way more interested in what the Cowboy football team was doing in Lubbock.
But two exhibitions drew crowds of 4,135 and 4,068. Let's check out the attendance figure when the Cowboys play a regular season opener next Friday against Texas-San Antonio.
Maybe OSU, after three first-round NIT defeats, will have to win back its fan base.




Reader Comments 5 Total
Curious? (4 years ago)
I looked up the box score attendance figure for OSU and OU both for their most recent exhibition games. BOTH said attendance was over 8,000. But you say OSU had only 4,068. What explains this discrepancy? Which number is right? Did I misread the box score or are they really inflating their numbers that much?
Curious? (4 years ago)
Me again. I just saw the figure that said "tickets scanned" 4,068 on the OSU box score.
No such stat on the OU box.
Still would like to know the explanation if you can provide it. Thanks.
Jimmie Tramel (4 years ago)
OSU lists tickets sold and tickets scanned. Tickets scanned is actual attendance and those are the figures I used in this blog.
cyco myko (4 years ago)
Jimmie Jamz,
I'm curious if OSU basketball tickets shot through the roof in price the way their football tickets did. If so, that might be one explanation. And pre-season doesn't always draw as high as regular season.
KC (4 years ago)
I tried to buy 3 tickets to both games on OSU's website and both times it said there were no tickets available. I have bought tickets on it many times before for several different sports so I know what I was doing. I don't understand if they weren't sold out, what was wrong.
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Tulsa World sports writer Jimmie Tramel is a former class president at Locust Grove High School. He graduated magna cum laude from Northeastern State University with a journalism degree and, while attending college, was sports editor of the Pryor Daily Times. He joined the Tulsa World on Oct. 17, 1989, the same day an earthquake struck the World Series. He is the OSU basketball beat writer and a columnist and feature writer during football season. In 2007, he wrote a book about Oklahoma State football with former Cowboy coach Pat Jones.

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