In basketball attendance (PDF, via MarquetteHoops).

The 2005-06 Big East had 8 teams in the top 50 in average attendance: Syracuse (#1), Louisville (#4), UConn (#15), Marquette (#21), Cinci (#27), Pitt, ND (#41) and Providence (#47). With the exception of USF, all the other members of the new Big East finished in the top 100 in attendance.

How the other conferences did:

Big 11, 9 teams: Wisconsin, Illinois, Mich. St., Indiana, Ohio St., Iowa, Purdue, Michigan and Minnestoa

Big 12, 8 teams: Kansas, Arkansas, Oklahoma St., Oklahoma, Iowa St., Texas, Texas Tech and Missouri

SEC, 7 teams: Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Florida, South Carolina, Vanderbilt and LSU

ACC, 5 teams: North Carolina, Maryland, NC St., Wake Forest and Virginia Tech

Mountain West, 4 teams: New Mexico, UNLV, Utah and Bringham Young

WAC, 2 teams: Fresno and UTEP

PAC 10, 2 teams: Arizona and Washington

Atlantic 10, 2 teams: Dayton and Xavier

Missouri Valley, 2 teams: Creighton and Wichita St.

Remaining C-USA, 1 team: Memphis

The PAC 10 has to be embarrassed by its member schools in terms of attendance. Put to shame by the Mountain West.

No shock that the Big 11 leads in attendance. Biggest schools and biggest arenas.