Louisville basketball attendance at KFC Yum! Center: Pat Kelsey Year 1

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Pat Kelsey met Jeff Capel at midcourt after Louisville basketball’s 79-68 win over Pittsburgh on March 1, in front of a stripe-out crowd at the KFC Yum! Center.

After the Panthers coach complimented the Cardinals coach on the raucous atmosphere, Kelsey ran into the student section to thank fans for, yet again, helping push his team across the finish line.

“It’s nothing short of amazing,” Capel told reporters, “to get this environment back to how it was when I first became a head coach in this league.”

“The town’s buzzing about Louisville basketball,” Kelsey added, “and it’s really, really cool.”

Coming off Kenny Payne’s disastrous 12-52 tenure, during which the 22,090-seat Yum! Center hosted only three crowds of 10,000 or more scanned tickets, the bar couldn’t have been lower. Just how much of a bounce-back season was Year 1 of the Kelsey era attendance-wise for U of L? Here’s a look:

Here’s a game-by-game breakdown of Louisville’s announced attendance, which the athletics department says reflects the total number of tickets sold, and its scanned ticket numbers:

DateOpponentAnnouncedScannedNov. 4Morehead State12,4908,548Nov. 9Tennessee16,97613,948Nov. 19Bellarmine12,2208,160Nov. 22Winthrop12,4627,876Dec. 3Ole Miss12,7297,816Dec. 8Duke15,31212,527Dec. 11UTEP11,6686,427Dec. 28Eastern Kentucky13,1509,384Jan. 1North Carolina14,24811,264Jan. 7Clemson14,9919,614Jan. 18Virginia18,23314,208Jan. 28Wake Forest14,53311,677Feb. 8Miami15,58812,512Feb. 22Florida State16,47312,688March 1Pittsburgh18,45915,531March 5California14,4429,934March 8Stanford18,70715,350Average14,86411,027Data via U of L Athletics

Not every ticket is scanned at the Yum! Center, but most are at this point of the digital age.

In 2023, while The Courier Journal was diving into the attendance numbers under former coach Kenny Payne, a spokesperson for U of L Athletics said both the announced and scanned ticket numbers are “vital data points for us financially and as a gauge of the current fan experience.”

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Publish date : 2025-03-20 09:19:00

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