HUMPHREY COLISEUM
First Game Dec. 1, 1975, an 85-82 win against Indiana State.
525 Total number of men’s games played at the Hump since it first opened.
Kermit Davis The first Mississippi State coach at the Hump was Kermit Davis.
34 The Hump has had 10,000-plus fans 34 times.
10,788 A record 10,788 fans packed the Hump in 2012 to watch the thriller between MSU and Kentucky.
era of MSU basketball with an 85-82 victory over Indiana State back on Dec. 1, 1975, the Bulldogs have compiled an impressive 381-144 home record. In 1990-91, Mississippi State went over the 1-million mark for overall home basketball attendance with the Bulldogs drawing 100,000-plus fans (102,072; 7,852 per game) in a single season for the first time in school history during MSU’s SEC Championship campaign. On Feb. 23, 2002, at Humphrey Coliseum, a then-state of Mississippirecord 10,645 fans attended State’s 61-59 home win against the Ole Miss Rebels in a crucial SEC contest. After nearly drawing 100,000 total fans during the 2002-03 season and setting a new single-season school record by averaging 9,165 fans per home SEC game, the 2003-04 Bulldog squad shattered all existing MSU basketball attendance records en route to capturing the school’s first outright regular-season league championship since 196263. In recording 12 or more home wins in a year for the fourth-straight year, the 2003-04 Bulldogs established new single-season Coliseum attendance standards for most total fans (111,940), highest per-game average for overall games (7,996), highest per-game average for SEC contests (10,209) and most crowds (6) of 10,000+ fans, along with setting a new mark for the largest single-game crowd (10,735) for MSU’s 80-56 home triumph over Ole Miss on Feb. 7, 2004. In a home win streak that began the year prior, the 2003-04 State squad also set a new all-time Coliseum record with 14 consecutive homecourt victories over the course of two years. Eight years ago, State’s attendance boom and home success continued as the Bulldogs went over the 100,000
mark for attendance (103,031) for the second-straight season. MORE RECORDS SHATTERED Five years ago en route to advancing to the second round of the NCAA Tournament, MSU established singleseason school standards for home attendance (139,305) as it claimed 12 victories. Two years ago, records were shattered again as a total of 157,111 fans came through the turnstiles to witness the Maroon & White claim 13 victories. Last year, in posting a 15-4 ledger at home, MSU drew 152,363 fans. As a result of those victories, MSU has now registered 10 or more home wins in a season 19 times over the last 20 basketball campaigns dating back to 1992-93. Prior to the start of MSU’s anticipated 1995-96 Final Four campaign, the capacity of State’s home basketball arena was increased to 10,000 with the addition of permanent seats around the Coliseum’s inner concourse. During the summer of 1996, the Coliseum underwent major renovations to accommodate the MSU athletic department’s growing need for additional locker room availability. Standing the equivalent of a seven-story building (84 feet), Humphrey Coliseum is 318 feet long and 268 feet wide and was originally constructed from approximately 450,000 red Mississippi-made bricks. Named in honor of George Duke Humphrey, a former Mississippi State president (1934-45), the Coliseum also serves as the home for the Lady Bulldog basketball team, in addition to housing some administrative offices and Oympic sport coaches’ offices.
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