NCAA Basketball: 10 teams that will be hurt most from fan-less games

Kansas Jayhawks

Like Kentucky, Kansas basketball fans more-so resemble a cult rather than just a fanbase, as the team’s success, fan passion, and size all factor in to round out yet another marquee support group hell-bent on helping their team win. Also thanks to their famous “rock..chalk…jay-hawk” chant, Kansas fans come together as another easily identifiable group, having also earned nationwide recognition by even those relatively alienated to the game.

Although measuring a fanbase’s ability to bother a visiting team by a numerical format remains frankly impossible, crowd volume comes as perhaps the closest thing with the capability to do so, and nobody stacks up better than Kansas, as the team broke the record for the largest crowd roar at an indoor sporting event during a 2017 game against West Virginia.

But the NCAA might not grant accessibility to Allen Fieldhouse this year for the 16,300 voices normally bellowing inside it with their world-record capabilities. But without all that noise typically focused on causing trouble for their opponents, things might change course, and lead to difficulties for the Jayhawks instead.

Similarly to how the “12th man” helped the Seattle Seahawks achieve so much success over the last decade, the Jayhawks gain assistance from their world-class fanbase as well, so adapting to life without it adds just another task for a high-expectations team already dealing with some more pressing issues such as its notable departures this offseason and all the young talent influx that still requires proper grooming.