INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Syracuse is the attendance leader in men’s basketball, edging Kentucky for the second straight year. The NCAA said yesterday that Syracuse averaged 23,854 fans per game last season, just ahead of Kentucky’s 23,572. Louisville, at 21,386, was the only other school to draw better than 20,000 a game.
UNDATED (AP) – South Carolina has ended Tennessee’s 11-year run atop the attendance standings in women’s basketball. The Gamecocks averaged 12,293 fans this season at home, the most in the country. The Lady Vols were second with 10,375. South Carolina jumped nearly 6,000 fans per game this season.
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Kelly Johnson homered and drove in three runs as the Atlanta Braves ended the Milwaukee Brewers’ eight-game winning streak with a 5-3 victory last night. The game was held up in the ninth inning while an injured fan received medical attention after getting hit by a line drive.
RICHMOND, Ky. (AP) — Two Eastern Kentucky University football players who were suspended after fighting have been reinstated to the team. The school said in a statement that junior offensive lineman Colton Scurry of Fayetteville, Georgia, and junior defensive lineman Patrick Graffree of Elizabethtown were reinstated to the team.
