2025-26 Top 50 College Basketball Attendance

We have a wrap on the 2025-26 college basketball season, so let’s take a look at the top 50 attendance numbers across the sport. We will also break down select mid-major and high-major conference numbers over the coming week.

A quick note on the data: These attendance figures are what schools submit to the NCAA. That can include tickets purchased, such as season tickets and student-fee allocations, or actual scanned/gate attendance. Most schools report the former since it typically produces a higher number. Yes, this same kind of counting also happens in football. If a team hosted an NIT home game, that attendance is included as well.

You also might be asking how a school can be over 100 percent capacity. Part of that comes down to counting and accounting in college sports, as noted above, but there are also people in attendance who do not have a traditional seat, such as standing-room-only fans, players, coaches, cheerleaders, and others that some schools may include in their totals.

The same goes for venue capacity, as those figures are also based on what schools report to the NCAA.

Kentucky led the way in both cumulative attendance (355,165) and average attendance (19,731), narrowly topping North Carolina by 232 total fans.

Enjoy.

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2025-26 College Basketball Attendance Leaders

Rk	Team	Conf	Total	Avg	% Capacity
1	Kentucky	SEC	355,165	19,731	96.25
2	North Carolina	ACC	350,988	19,499	89.65
3	Tennessee	SEC	327,265	19,251	88.80
4	Arkansas	SEC	338,334	18,796	97.90
5	BYU	Big 12	271,098	18,073	100.39
6	Syracuse	ACC	319,063	17,726	58.66
7	Creighton	Big East	266,176	16,636	95.87
8	NC State	ACC	277,802	16,341	82.95
9	Indiana	Big Ten	282,193	15,677	91.03
10	Louisville	ACC	261,727	15,396	69.70
11	Kansas	Big 12	244,907	15,307	100.04
12	Wisconsin	Big Ten	258,908	15,230	98.19
13	Illinois	Big Ten	253,630	14,919	95.98
14	Purdue	Big Ten	252,892	14,876	100.00
15	Michigan St.	Big Ten	251,549	14,797	100.00
16	Nebraska	Big Ten	264,077	14,671	97.81
17	Marquette	Big East	246,249	14,485	82.77
18	Arizona	Big 12	243,051	14,297	97.34
19	Iowa St.	Big 12	238,866	14,051	98.49
20	Alabama	SEC	199,044	13,270	98.48
21	Dayton	A-10	238,363	13,242	98.77
22	Texas Tech	Big 12	211,741	13,234	87.65
23	St. John’s (NY)	Big East	222,658	13,098	233.80
24	Maryland	Big Ten	193,326	12,888	74.50
25	Virginia	ACC	219,044	12,885	88.11
26	UConn	Big East	216,211	12,718	124.15
27	Michigan	Big Ten	188,180	12,545	98.73
28	New Mexico	MWC	242,658	12,133	78.73
29	San Diego St.	MWC	185,066	11,567	93.17
30	Iowa	Big Ten	191,759	11,280	75.26
31	Ohio St.	Big Ten	191,284	11,252	59.07
32	West Virginia	Big 12	199,438	11,080	79.14
33	Texas	SEC	184,193	10,835	100.67
34	South Carolina	SEC	205,137	10,797	59.98
35	Florida	SEC	157,878	10,525	103.69
36	Missouri	SEC	186,822	10,379	68.91
37	Providence	Big East	163,340	10,209	82.26
38	Boise St.	MWC	159,982	9,999	80.77
39	Cincinnati	Big 12	177,329	9,852	82.01
40	Utah St.	MWC	145,226	9,682	94.27
41	Xavier	Big East	174,266	9,681	94.69
42	Memphis	American	153,722	9,608	52.22
43	Duke	ACC	139,710	9,314	100.00
44	Vanderbilt	SEC	148,475	9,280	64.78
45	Georgia	SEC	158,782	8,821	83.83
46	Minnesota	Big Ten	147,276	8,663	59.24
47	Texas A&M	SEC	148,094	8,227	63.34
48	Nevada	MWC	154,525	8,133	70.50
49	Auburn	SEC	145,412	8,078	88.57
50	Rutgers	Big Ten	136,000	8,000	100.00

By Conference:
Big Ten: 12
SEC: 12
Big 12:7
ACC: 6
Big East: 6
Mountain West: 5
A-10: 1
American: 1

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