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A Dayton Flyers basketball player prepares to shoot a free throw during a home game at UD Arena. The crowd, dressed mostly in red and blue, raises their hands behind the basket to distract the opposing team. Other players line the key, and the Dayton bench is visible in the background along with the court's large red

Men's Basketball

Men’s Basketball Ranked 15th Nationally In Attendance For 2024-25

Dayton’s Average Attendance Of 13,407 Fans Per Game Ties The School Record Again

DAYTON – The University of Dayton men's basketball team ranked 15th nationally in average attendance in 2024-25, according to figures found on the NCAA statistical website.

UD averaged 13,407 fans a game in 2024-25, selling out the entire season for the fourth consecutive year.  The top five attendance averages have come in the last five seasons attendance figures were kept – 13,407 in 2024-25, 2023-24, 2022-23 and 2021-22, and 13,364 in 2019-20.  National attendance statistics were not kept during the Covid season of 2020-21.

Of the schools in the top 20 in attendance, only Creighton, Purdue, and Michigan State also sold out every game of the season.

Other Notable Attendance Figures
• UD has finished in the national Top 25 in attendance the last 10 seasons.
• Rated in the Top 30 for 27 straight years
• Since UD Arena opened in 1969, Dayton has been in the NCAA`s Top 35 in every season, and in the Top 25 a total of 36 times
• Six of the top seven yearly average attendances in school history have come in the last seven seasons
• The Flyers led the Atlantic 10 in attendance for the 27th straight season
    *2020-21 attendance figures discounted
 
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