Basketbowl
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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.
The announced crowd of 78,129 set a record for verified attendance at a basketball game in history. While the record was broken at the 2010 NBA All-Star Game, which drew 108,713 to Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas, the Basketbowl still holds the record for attendance at a college basketball game.