The NCAA used to always listed the top 100 or the top 50 in average attendance, and in recent years has listed the top 25 or 30. Bradley used to rank in the top 50. But for the last decade or so they have been outside the top 50, so it's hard to know precisely where they rank.
The NCAA still lists the attendance figures every year for all schools-
Here is the 2019-20 NCAA attendance stats-
http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/m_bask...021/Attend.pdf
There is a lot of interesting data there. But scroll down to page 4 to see the top 30, and also on page 4 starts the team-by-team list of attendance figures for all Division I schools in alphabetical order. Bradley is there on page 4 with an average of 5,651.
I just scanned down the entire list, and I counted 89 teams with a higher average attendance than Bradley's average of 5,651.
So I would guess Bradley ranked about #90, though I could have missed one or two.
Not bad. Bradley lead the MVC in attendance for the 3rd year in a row (since Wichita State left in 2017). But the numbers are not as good as Bradley once had. We know many of the reasons for the drop-off.
By the way, here is a list of Bradley's attendance figures going back over 40 years
Year/rank/Gms..total.....avg....change
2023.......10....40,971..4,097 down 254 through 10 games
2022........14....60,912..4,351 down 1,300
2021…….14…..….0………..0…….....……(Covid year)
2020........17..96,059..5,651 up 222 (all games at Carver)
2019........16..86,871..5,429 down 270 (all games at Carver)
2018 .......15..85,489..5,699 up 212 (all games at Carver)
2017 #96 15 82,318 5,487 down 466 (all games at Carver)
2016 #91 15 89,299 5,953 up 227 (all games at Carver)
2015 #94 16 91,614 5,726 down 882 (Carver average 5827)
2014 #74 17 112,335 6,608 up 51 (Carver average 6,984)
2013 #79 18 118,024 6,557 down 1,083
2012 #68 16 122,245 7,640 down 807
2011 #56 16 135,148 8,447 down 892
2010 #52 15 140,079 9,339 up 229
2009 #55 18 163,981 9,110 down 490
2008 #52 19 183,392 9,600 down 128
2007 #53 17 165,376 9,728 up 508
2006 #54 14 129,086 9,220 down 117
2005 #51 15 140,065 9,337 up 159
2004 #52 15 137,667 9,178 down 173
2003 #47 14 130,907 9,351 up 279
2002 #47 13 117,935 9,072 down 50
2001 #51 15 136,683 9,112 down 1,066
2000 #41 14 142,495 10,178 up 646
1999 #44 15 142,980 9,532 down 237
1998 #41 13 127,001 9,769 up 144
1997 #41 14 134,755 9,625 down 47
1996 #44 13 125,733 9,672 up 151
1995 #47 14 133,288 9,521 up 707
1994 #46 16 140,700 8,794 up 1,523
1993 #67 13 94,523 7,271 up 278
1992 #78 13 90,904 6,993 down 391
1991 #70 13 95,995 7,384 down 357
1990 #65 13 100,632 7,741 down 1,177
1989 #51 13 115,939 8,918 down 1,098
1988 #36 16 160,263 10,016 up 1,307
1987 #41 14 121,922 8,709 down 199
1986 #37 14 124,712 8,908 up 1,366
1985 #60 15 113,124 7,542 up 350
1984 #62 15 107,881 7,192 down 1,821
1983 #38 16 144,209 9,013 up 1,730
1982 #56 17 123,810 7,283 down 33
1981 #55 14 102,430 7,316 up 63
1980 #59 16 116,050 7,253 up 503
1979 #64 14 94,500 6,750 down 113
1978 #56 16 109,800 6,863
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