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There are schools that get 10,000+ per basketball game that don't even have a scholarship football program (many of the Big East schools, Gonzaga, Wichita State, Dayton, etc.) Some schools who have both just have a stronger basketball culture.
Missouri State's men's basketball consistently draws better than football, and even the women's team clears the football season average a few games a season. We had 11,000 in JQH for Wichita State in January. I can't remember the last time we had 11,000 at Plaster Stadium. There are various reasons for this - our basketball program was highly successful through the 90s, and we had some of the strongest teams rejected by the NCAA Tournament Committee in the 00s; our football team has historically been crap, the Ozarks are a generally poor and rural region, so area high schools turned to basketball because it was cheaper and required less people to play, thus breeding a basketball culture...
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