There’s been a lot of talk about the crowds at Rupp Arena this season — or rather, lack thereof — but this morning, we got the real attendance numbers and they are startling. According to the Courier-Journal, the average number of tickets scanned during Kentucky’s seven-game homestand was 10,439, FAR below the school’s announced average of 18,615. That’s a decrease of 27.7% from the first eight home games of the 2019-20 season, the last in which full capacity (20,500) was allowed at Rupp.
The most attended game this season was vs. North Florida on Nov. 26, when 12,429 tickets were scanned.