Apparently men's basketball isn't the only Duke sport suffering from poor attendance.
The number of fans at Wallace Wade Stadium this fall during football games reached a three-year low in 2011, with an average of just 24,393 tickets—or 71.87 percent of the stadium's full capacity—sold per game, according to an NCAA report. A total of 170,748 fans came through the turnstiles this season, ranking 79th nationally and last in the ACC.
In 2010, attendance spiked behind a visit from top-ranked Alabama, reaching 28,750 per game, slightly more than 2,000 above the 2009 average.
The SEC and Big 10 combined for 12 of the nation's top 14 in total attendance, topped by Michigan's 112,179 fans per game. Clemson led the ACC for the second straight year with 78,234 fans per game, which ranked 15th in the country.
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