Crowd Count: Wake Forest adds to attendance mark

• by Soccer America , Nov 30, 2015

No. 1 seed Wake Forest added to its school record attendance record as the crowd of 3,149 fans for Sunday's 1-0 win over Indiana -- the largest of the eight round-of-16 matches -- pushed its season total to 41,342 fans in 16 home games. The previous record was 29,296 in 2007.

Wake ranks fourth in the nation in total attendance behind only Creighton, UC Santa Barbara and Connecticut. A crowd of 5,000 is expected for Saturday's quarterfinal match against Stanford in which case Wake Forest would take over the attendance lead for the year.

D1 Men's Attendance Leaders:
TOTAL TEAM
46,171 Creighton
46,132 UC Santa Barbara
42,054 Connecticut
41,342 Wake Forest
38,443 Maryland
36,319 Clemson
29,238 Louisville

NCAA D1 Men's Round of 16 Attendance:
ATT. MATCH
3,149 Wake Forest-Indiana
2,280 Akron-SMU
1,634 Stanford-Ohio State
1,432 North Carolina-Creighton
1,134 Syracuse-Seattle
1,008 Clemson-UC Santa Barbara
913 Georgetown-Boston College
331 Notre Dame-Maryland