The crowd was a big factor last night

[dwaderoy2004]

Just finally letting myself get back on the boards (I tend to avoid them the night after games win or lose) so I don't know if this was touched on much, but the crowd last night was a major factor over the last ten minutes.  I was actually at the game, down in the lower bowl, about 10 rows up from MU's bench, and the noise was deafening.  I don't think we had one possession in the last ten minutes where the crowd wasn't totally in to it.  I could not hear Buzz yelling from my seat, while I could hear him loud and clear in the 1st half.  Now, of course this isn't the first time MU has had to deal with tough crowds, but they did not respond well, and you could see it in their eyes.  And the Georgetown players were just feeding off it.  Since they never missed, the energy in the arena never really tapered off.  Have to hand it to the crowd...they were probably worth 5 points themselves.  Not sure how well this came across on TV, so figured I'd throw it out there in case anyone cared.

[Wade for President]

Prior to the comeback, I was thinking that the crowd looked rather small for a match-up between two Top 20 teams (upper bowl seemed completely empty from the camera angles shown on tv).

I think the crowd energized G'Town in much the same way the YUM Center crowd energized L'ville during their comeback last year. 

I'd say +5 points sounds about right, as there were a number of charges that could've been called against the Hoyas.

[Dr. Blackheart]

A lot of late comers to the game with the 7PM EST start...which, of course, is when MU made their run. 

[79Warrior]

Prior to the comeback, I was thinking that the crowd looked rather small for a match-up between two Top 20 teams (upper bowl seemed completely empty from the camera angles shown on tv).

I think the crowd energized G'Town in much the same way the YUM Center crowd energized L'ville during their comeback last year. 

I'd say +5 points sounds about right, as there were a number of charges that could've been called against the Hoyas.

Upper bowl was just about empty.

[lab_warrior]

Thankfully, for the rest of the season, no other Big East arena has large seating capacity/crowds, especially the Carrier Dome on Saturday.

[Mr. Nielsen]

Paid Attendance -11,213

[Norm]

I was in the upper deck for the game last night. The crowd was pretty much dead until GU got the quick 5 points after MU grabbed the 17 point lead. It was loud, but it wasn't deafening - at least in the upper deck it wasn't.

From my vantage point--looking down on the court--the size factor really came into play in the 2nd half, when Thompson put in all the freshman (4 on the floor at one time) to play with Clark. All of them were taller than every player on the floor for Marquette, and they constantly double teamed DJO when he touched the ball.

[Sir Lawrence]

I agree with Norm. I was in the second level, under the suites, and I thought the
crowd was very weak until that five point stint.  Then I thought it to be very loud for a Christmas break lack of student crowd.  They even had a local high school pep band.
A nice smattering of MU fans, or was that because the gold stands out in a blue and gray world?

And, they had an older gent sing the National Anthem live.

Guy behind me asked where Marquette was located.  After I informed him, his gal pal started up about Laverne & Shirley (groan) and he called us cheeseheads (fairly good naturedly) the rest of the game.  The last three minutes were brutal. 

[dwaderoy2004]

This is the first year i sat in the lower bowl.  Huge noise difference between the lower bowl and upper deck.  Deafening is obviuosly a slight hyperbole as i still have my sense of hearing today, but it was really freaking loud.

[hoyasincebirth]

I was really impressed by the noise level the small crowd made we acquitted ourselves quite well. Crowd was only actually a little over 8,000 according to a source at the arena(vs the paid attendance). Verizon isn't always hostile, but in big games and when the team needs it I think we step up pretty well.

[Mr. Nielsen]

I lost were I read it, but for the G'town fan to ask where Marquette is really bothers me. How do you not know where a conference member plays in terms of city/state.