SEC Baseball Attendance Nears 1.9 Million


2009 SEC ATTENDANCE LEADERS
As of June 8 - Final

Year after year, the SEC continues to be the benchmark in paid college baseball attendance. The SEC and its member schools own virtually all regular season, conference tournament, NCAA Regional and Super Regional attendance records. The SEC and one of its institutions have led the NCAA in total and average attendance for the last 13 seasons in a row, and 18 of the last 24 years. In 2005, the SEC set a goal to reach the 1.5 million attendance mark for the first time in league history and came within 10,000 fans of reaching that goal. The drive was renewed and continued for the 2006 season, a season which saw over 1.6 million fans at SEC ballparks. In 2007, the SEC drew nearly 1.7 million and averaged for 4,000 per game for first time in history. In 2008 the league drew over 1.6 million and 4,000 per game again. In 2009, attendance records were smashed as total numbers neared 1.9 million, an avergage of almost 4,700 per game.

Team *Home Dates Total Avg.
LSU 42 403,056 9,596
Arkansas 31 245,092 7,906
Ole Miss 39 273,111 7,002
South Carolina 34 231,360 6,804
Mississippi State 26 157,530 6,058
Alabama 29 116,294 4,010
Florida 40 119,252 2,981
Georgia 32 93,360 2,917
Vanderbilt 29 70,519 2,431
Auburn 34 75,801 2,229
Kentucky 32 53,646 1,676
Tennessee 34 46,150 1,357
TOTALS 402 1,885,171 4,689

*Some teams have played doubleheaders at various points of the season, giving them less home dates than they have played actual home games.


TOP HOME CROWDS OF 2009

Date Matchup Attendance
April 8 Arizona State at Arkansas 11,434
May 9 Florida at LSU 10,923
April 18 Kentucky at Mississippi State 10,555
April 18 Tennessee at LSU 10,414
June 6 Virginia at Ole Miss 10,323
June 6 Rice at LSU 10,279
March 6 Illinois at LSU 10,246
May 8 Florida at LSU 10,203
April 17 Tennessee at LSU 10,140
June 7 Virginia at Ole Miss 10,110


TOP NEUTRAL SITE CROWDS OF 2009

Date Matchup Attendance
May 20 LSU vs. VAN/USC vs. ALA (Regions Park; Hoover, Ala.) 9,254
March 17 Miss. State vs. Southern Miss. (Trustmark Park; Pearl, Miss.) 7,947
March 10 Auburn vs. Alabama (Riverwalk Stadium; Montgomery, Ala.) 7,489
March 14 Mississippi State vs. Ole Miss (Trustmark Park; Pearl, Miss.) 7,458