I've attended a couple of games this year and it has gotten brutal in the Hump. We truly have sabotaged a marquee sports program at MSU. Both the student and fan attendance is probably at its lowest turn out since the Hump opened. There are certainly factors that might explain some of the problem:
1) The obvious - Basketball has not been good since Stansbury left.
2) Our home court strengths of Hank Flick and the student section were casualties of tinkering by Stricklin and company
3) The home game scheduling for Fall 2016 was short-sighted. We scheduled zero home games around our home football weekends plus a home game during Thanksgiving break when most everyone is out of town. We set ourselves up for failure
4) A fan base of our size is over-committed to other sports. We sellout football, women's basketball attendance is way up, and baseball has been back on an uptick. Most fans cannot dedicate time to multiple sports, and people are certainly going to plan around the winning programs.
I'll probably think of additional reasons, but those are what immediately come to mind. Our home scheduling for this fall is really bad. Whether the opponent is a named program or not, you have to find a way to have a game or two on a home football weekend. 2017 is setting up to be special for both football and basketball. Now is the time to be getting to the Hump and getting familiar with the players on our team.