Kentucky, Syracuse and Louisville topped the college basketball world in attendance for the 90th straight year, as U of L finished third in the nation despite averaging over 1,000 fans more per game than Freedom Hall is supposed to hold.
Here are the final numbers:
DIV. I
School
G
Total
Avg
1,
Kentucky
18
433,989
24,111
2.
Syracuse
19
420,890
22,152
3.
Louisville
19
368,537
19,397
4.
Tennessee
16
306,680
19,168
5.
North Carolina
19
337,934
17,786
6.
Wisconsin
17
292,910
17,230
7.
Maryland
16
268,673
16,792
8.
Memphis
20
329,968
16,498
9.
Kansas
19
312,230
16,433
10.
Marquette
17
265,484
15,617
The Big East wound up with three schools in the top ten, and finished with 3,138,877 fans attending its teams' games. The mark was the second highest total ever, surpassed only by the league's mark 3,259,922 in 2007.