Missouri Western women’s basketball placed 13th for the 2010-11 Division II women’s basketball attendance averaging 1,384 (17,997) fans for its 13 home contests. Northern (S.D.) State out of the NSIC led Division II with an average of 2,399 (31,187) fans per home game.

The Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association led the nation in Division II women’s basketball attendance average for the 2010-11 season, the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) announced recently, which is the fourth time in six years that the MIAA captured the attendance title.

The MIAA drew 174,921 fans to its 12 institutions’ 164 home games last season for an average of 1,067 fans per home game. The MIAA averaged 206 fans more then the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference which averaged 861 per game.

The MIAA brought in the most fans of any Division II conference. Seven conferences – The MIAA, the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference (156,714), the Lone Star (149,113), the Golf South (119,841), the Rocky Mountain Athletics Conference (114, 618), the Central Intercollegiate Athletics Conference (113, 268), and the Great Lakes Valley (105,813) cracked 100,000 in total attendance last season.

Other MIAA schools which cracked the top 15 were Emporia State in second with 2,051 fans per game, Washburn in the fourth position with 1,854 fans per game, Fort Hays State came in seventh with 1,667 fans and Pittsburg State finished in eleventh drawing 1,413 fans per contest.

— MWSU Sports Information —