For the second consecutive year, the Kentucky women?s basketball program set record-breaking numbers in home attendance as a school-best total of 73,683 fans have witnessed the Wildcats play this season.

Last season the Cats brought in a school-record 72,553 fans in just 14 home games. That record was broken Sunday when a season-high and sixth largest crowd of 7,643 fans packed Memorial Coliseum to see Kentucky battle Mississippi State.

?Kentucky fans are just amazing,? UK Coach Mickie DeMoss said. ?They just keep coming back every game and it?s a special place. The fans appreciate this team even though the end result isn?t always a win. They realize this is a young team and the fans see what kind of future we have here.?

Kentucky is on track to break the school record for best average-game attendance of 5,182 set last season. UK currently averages 5,263 fans in 14 games. UK has one remaining game in Memorial Coliseum Sunday Feb. 27 vs. Arkansas at 1 p.m. EST. The Cats are 11-3 overall this season at home (8-3 in Memorial Coliseum, 3-0 in Rupp Arena).

Last year, UK set new attendance records for most fans in a season (72,533), best average-game attendance (5,182) and largest leap in attendance from the previous season (3,488). The Cats ended 2003-04 ranked as high as No. 16 in the national average attendance poll compiled by the Wisconsin sports information office.

UK currently ranks 18th overall in average attendance and is No. 3 in Southeastern Conference attendance behind No. 5 Tennessee (13,078) and top-ranked LSU (7,144).