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| Date | December 13, 2003 | ||||||||||||
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| Venue | Ford Field, Detroit | ||||||||||||
| Attendance | 78,129 | ||||||||||||
| Network | CBS | ||||||||||||
| Announcers | Verne Lundquist and Billy Packer | ||||||||||||
The Basketbowl was a college basketball game between Michigan State University and the University of Kentucky held on December 13, 2003, at Ford Field, a domed American football stadium in Detroit, Michigan. Kentucky won the game 79–74, never trailing throughout the contest.[1]
The announced crowd of 78,129 set a record for verified[2] attendance at a basketball game in history.[1] While the record was broken at the 2010 NBA All-Star Game, which drew 108,713 to Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas,[3] the Basketbowl still holds the record for attendance at a college basketball game.
- ^ a b "Kentucky never trails in 'BasketBowl'". ESPN.com. Associated Press. 2003-12-13. Archived from the original on April 5, 2004. Retrieved 2009-07-12.
- ^ The 1968 European Cup Winners' Cup final between AEK Athens and Slavia Prague, held at the Panathinaiko Stadium in Athens, is believed to have had 80,000 in attendance, but that total was not verified at the time. "Partizan sets crowd record at Belgrade Arena!". Euroleague.net. 2009-03-05. Archived from the original on 10 March 2009. Retrieved 2009-03-31.
- ^ "East wins in front of biggest crowd to watch hoops game". ESPN.com. Associated Press. 2010-02-14. Archived from the original on July 10, 2012. Retrieved 2010-02-15.
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