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Add the battle for best home attendance among all the other close races right now between No. 3/3 BYU and No. 4/4 Hawai’i.
BYU and Hawai’i are the only teams in the nation with more than a 3,000 home attendance average and are within a 100-person average of each other, according to recent statistics compiled by the NCAA.
The Cougars are averaging nation-best 3,243 people per home match, while the Rainbow Warriors have a 3,187 home attendance average. No other NCAA Division I-II men’s volleyball team has more than a 1,250 home attendance average.
Both BYU and Hawai’i are in the top three of the MPSF standings with about one month remaining in the regular season. In addition, the Cougars and Rainbow Warriors are among the few teams still in serious contention for a possible at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament, according to the latest Off the Block bracketology.
Along with these two schools, Ball State, Grand Canyon and Ohio State round-out the top five of the best attendance rankings.
The top nine teams in attendance are all from the MPSF and MIVA.
No. 15 Penn State leads the EIVA and is 10th overall with a 655 home attendance average. Mount Olive also leads all Conference Carolinas schools averaging a 273 home attendance.
2017 home attendance averages through March 2)
1. BYU — 3,243
2. Hawai’i — 3,187
3. Ball State — 1,230
4. Grand Canyon — 983
5. Ohio State — 977
6. Long Beach State — 970
7. UCLA — 937
8. UC Irvine — 894
9. Pepperdine — 774
10. Penn State — 655
T-11. Stanford — 651
T-11. Fort Wayne — 651
13. Loyola — 649
14. George Mason — 608
15. Lewis — 532
16. St. Francis — 511
17. USC — 475
18. CSUN — 391
19. Princeton — 358
20. UC San Diego — 342
21. UC Santa Barbara — 305
22. NJIT — 295
23. Quincy — 287
24. Cal Baptist — 284
25. Mount Olive — 273
26. King — 209
27. Coker — 199
28. Harvard — 194
29. Concordia-Irvine — 178
30. Lindenwood — 172
31. Sacred Heart — 171
T-32. Lincoln Memorial — 152
T-32. McKendree — 152
34. Charleston — 123
35. Barton — 105
36. North Greenville — 98
37. Emmanuel — 93
38. Belmont Abbey — 92
39. Lees-McRae — 90
40. Pfeiffer — 88
41. Alderson Broaddus — 72
42. Erskine — 58
43. Limestone — 51