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Stansbury calls for fans to sell out Diddle Arena

Rick Stansbury’s made it clear since he’s taken the Western Kentucky job. The coach wants to sell out E.A. Diddle Arena.

“I said this when I left the press conference a year and two months ago. There’s going to come a time real soon when there aren’t any tickets for sale,” Stansbury said Tuesday during a news conference at E.A. Diddle Arena.

Basketball tickets haven’t exactly been tough to come by in recent years at WKU. Average attendance for the Toppers in 2016-17 was 3,915 fans per game – 53 percent of Diddle Arena’s 7,326-seat capacity.

That was still an improvement from attendance under former coach Ray Harper in 2015-16.