The NCAA released college basketball attendance figures today and, predictably, attendance was down in Division I. This coincides with iffy television ratings released in March. (Take a look at the television numbers from 2013-14 and 2012-13 and you can understand the crisis theory the basketball powers are overseeing and attempting to manage.)

But 2014-15 at WVU was better than both of the past two seasons, what with a Sweet Sixteen appearance and 25 wins after one NIT appearance and 30 wins the previous two seasons. Sure enough, the Mountaineers saw a big jump in attendance: They were No. 39 in average home crowd (10,189), and the rise from 8,594 in 2013-14 (No. 52 nationally) was the eighth-best in the country.