South Carolina women's basketball leads nation in attendance for 11th consecutive year
Everyone knew already, but on Thursday, it became official: South Carolina women’s basketball fans led the country in attendance this season. No other team averaged more fans per game or had more total tickets sold than the Gamecocks. According to the official records from the NCAA, USC broke the all-time total attendance mark, a record they set last season, with 279,423 fans over 17 games. The garnet and black faithful also posted the second-best average attendance number in women’s basketball history (16,437 per game), behind only the Pat Summitt-led 1998-1999 Tennessee Lady Volunteers (by about 100 fans per game).
This year, second-place attendance honors belonged to the LSU Tigers. Kim Mulkey’s team saw 216,292 fans overall at their 22 home games. The Iowa Hawkeyes were second in average attendance, bringing in 14,998 fans per game.
The Gamecocks have led the country in both total and average attendance for 11 years in a row. That ties the all-time streak set by Tennessee from 2003-2004 until 2013-2014. Dawn Staley’s team will have a great chance of making it 12 years in a row next season.
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Colonial Life Arena saw seven total sellouts during the 2024-2025 season. That marked a new South Carolina women’s basketball record.
The Gamecocks also played in the nine highest-attended games of the season with the team’s National Championship matchup against the UConn Huskies and USC’s National Semifinal/Final Four game against the Texas Longhorns being the only games with more total butts in seats than the seven sellouts of 18,000 in Columbia.
*2020-2021 attendance numbers sometimes are considered “unofficial” because of the Covid-19 pandemic, so the active streak isn’t always accepted*
