Women's basketball timeline - University of Kentucky Athletics

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MEMORIAL COLISEUM
“My Old Kentucky Home” • Capacity 8,500
The women’s team has carved a 299-132 (69.3%) home-court record into the history of the Coliseum.
Over the past five seasons, the Cats have compiled an impressive 44-19 (69.8%) record in the storied Coliseum
and have ranked in the nation’s top 25 in average attendance all five years.
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Situated along Euclid Avenue on the University
of Kentucky campus, Memorial
Coliseum is the home of one of the richest basketball
traditions in the nation. It is also home
to the University of Kentucky women’s basketball
team, a team that has returned glory and
excitement to a facility that has known a wealth
of both.
For 25 years, the historic coliseum housed
the renowned Kentucky Wildcats men’s team
which won two national championships and 16
Southeastern Conference titles while playing in
the facility under the direction of legendary
HOME ATTENDANCE AVERAGES
Year Games Total Att. Avg.
2007-08 (23rd) 18 85,769 4,765
2006-07 (13th) 15 87,943 5,863 !
2005-06 (20th) 15 77,411 5,161
2004-05 (20th) 19 90,663 ! 4,772
2003-04 (16th) 14 72,553 5,182
2002-03 13 22,024 1,694
2001-02 11 12,681 1,153
2000-01 12 17,746 1,479
1999-00 12 29,643 2,470
1998-99 10 18,443 1,844
1997-98 11 15,728 1,430
1996-97 10 6,817 682
1995-96 11 8,456 769
1994-95 13 15,540 1,195
1993-94 13 17,649 1,358
1992-93 13 19,511 1,501
1991-92 13 17,087 1,314
1990-91 14 16,011 1,143
1989-90 14 18,777 1,341
1988-89 13 14,575 1,121
1987-88 16 13,400 837
1986-87 13 18,025 1,386
1985-86 16 18,887 1,180
1984-85 16 23,990 1,499
1983-84 17 18,880 1,110
1982-83 17 61,975 # 3,645
1981-82 19 41,000 2,158
1980-81 15 29,224 1,948
1979-80 15 22,500 1,500
! New Season Record # Led the nation
Years include games at Rupp Arena
1974-79 attendance not available
coaches Adolph Rupp and Joe B. Hall. When
the Wildcats moved downtown to 23,000-seat
Rupp Arena in 1976, the then-11,500 seat Coliseum
became the exclusive basketball home for
the women’s team.
Although the Coliseum is nicknamed “the
house that Rupp built,” University President
H.L. Donovan is credited with beginning the
plans for the Coliseum’s construction in 1941
when he recommended a
building that would “properly
take care of our athletics,
our health services, our
physical education and our
recreation.”
Memorial Coliseum was
completed in 1950 at a cost
of $3,925,000. The huge
building was dedicated to
serve as a memorial to the
nearly 10,000 Kentuckians
who lost their lives in
World War II and the
Korean conflict. The Coliseum
covers an entire city
block and has as much
space as a seven-story office building.
A new state-of-the-art floor was installed in
the summer of 2007, as the original 52-year-old
floor was taken out in place of a playing surface
that will be much more friendly to each athlete’s
tendencies and will cut down on injuries. A new
sound system and speaker cluster were added in
the summer of 2008.
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