Univ. of Louisville sees big jump in MBB attendance during comeback season

The Univ. of Louisville saw a 29.2% jump in attendance for its men’s basketball team this year, made the NCAA tournament for the first time in six years, and “ended its season with an attendance buzz, drawing two of the program’s three largest crowds in the final eight days of the regular season,” according to Rick Bozich of WDRB.com. UL drew an average of 14,864 fans per game at KFC Yum! Center, where the team went 14-3. That is up from 11,504 for the 2023-24 season and good enough to rank 15th nationally. The 14,864 per-game average was UL’s best since 2020. North Carolina led all of D-I basketball with an average of 20,521 fans per game at the Dean E. Smith Center, while Kentucky led in total attendance with 366,007 fans coming to Rupp Arena (WDRB.com, 4/9).