Average NCAA men's basketball attendance takes fall - USATODAY.com
From the article: "Crowds for last month's tournament semifinals and championship game in Indianapolis were strong at more than 140,000,
but the numbers for earlier rounds were down."
Not surprising - I remember watching some of those early round, mid-afternoon, mid-week games that were really sparsely attended.
The overall numbers are only down slightly. Of course, the easy way to fix this is to put a few games in the new Cowboys "Jerry Jones" Stadium....and all is well.