SHSU wins SLC Women's Basketball "Pack the House" contest
3/17/2009 1:00:00 AM | Women's Basketball
Sam Houston State was one of 32 winners in the NCAA Division I Women's Basketball “Pack the House” Challenge.
“Pack the House” is national effort in which conferences and institutions compete to build attendance. Each school's marketing staffs selected a home game and designated that date as a “Pack the House” game with the goal of setting an attendance record.
One winner from each of the 31 conferences and one from a group of independent institutions were named. Selections were based on marketing plan creativity and attendance criteria. The NCAA will award prizes and donate $500 to the nonprofit organization of each winning institution's choice.
And pack the house, they did. Almost two-thirds of the Division I membership ? 184 institutions ? participated in the effort that attracted more than 559,000 fans.
Sam Houston State hosted school record crowd of 2,260 fans at its season opening women's basketball game on Nov. 14, 2008, against Southern Mississippi. More than 2,000 Huntsville area elementary school children attended the Friday afternoon game at Johnson Coliseum.
Winners of the 2008-09 NCAA “Pack the House” Challenge are:
CONFERENCE WINNERS
America East ? Hartford
Atlantic Coast ? Georgia Tech
Atlantic Sun ? East Tennessee State
Atlantic 10 ? Fordham
Big East ? Notre Dame
Big Sky ? Montana State
Big South ? UNC Asheville
Big Ten ? Illinois
Big 12 ? Missouri
Big West ? Long Beach State
Colonial ? VCU
Conference USA ? Marshall
Horizon ? Valparaiso
Independents ? Cal State Bakersfield
Ivy ? Columbia
Metro Atlantic ? Niagara
Mid-America ? Central Michigan
Mid-Eastern ? North Carolina A&T
Missouri Valley ? Bradley
Mountain West ? TCU
Northeast ? Mount St. Mary's
Ohio Valley ? Tennessee-Martin
Pacific-10 ? California
Patriot ? Army
Southeastern ? Auburn
Southern ? Chattanooga
Southland ? Sam Houston State
SWAC ? Jackson State
Summit ? Indiana/Purdue-Indianapolis
Sun Belt ? Arkansas-Little Rock
West Coast ? Gonzaga
WAC ? Louisiana Tech
