Kentucky Proud Park shatters attendance record with 7,304 fans on Saturday
Nick Mingione asked and Big Blue Nation delivered.
After shattering the Kentucky Proud Park attendance record with 6,922 fans in the Wildcats’ 5-3 win over No. 4 Tennessee on Friday, BBN did it again just a few hours later.
This time? 7,304 fans in attendance for game two of the series, topping the previous record by just under 400 — 382, to be specific.
“This isn’t only good for us, it’s good for our league, for our state,” Mingione said Friday night. “It’s good for the SEC to have an atmosphere and environment like this. We needed it. I really feel like we’ve earned it.”
Then BBN followed it up with a bigger and better showing in Lexington, smashing the venue’s max capacity of 7,000 to become the 14th program to hit that attendance mark this season.
The state-of-the-art $49 million stadium was built with weekends like this in mind. Mingione built the brand and now BBN is returning the favor.
Well done.
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