From the Asheville Citizen-Times:
When men’s basketball powerhouse Davidson left the league after last year’s tournament to join the Atlantic 10 Conference, what also departed was the SoCon’s largest fan base for tournament games, an estimated 21 percent of the 103,474 fans who have attended the tourney in Asheville the past three seasons.
In addition to dominating play on the court — the Wildcats were 55-5 against league opponents their final three seasons, with three-regular-season and two tourney titles — the program ensured good attendance for every game it played at U.S. Cellular Center, with numbers ranging from 2,000 to more than 3,000 in the 6,000-seat venue arena for each of the eight games it played in Asheville from 2012-14.
