Syracuse, N.Y. -- The Syracuse-Duke men’s basketball game on Saturday is going to break the record for attendance at an on-campus basketball game. It probably won’t be by much.

“The game is sold out," Syracuse athletic director John Wildhack said. “We will set the new on-campus attendance record by a few. But it will be a record crowd.”

“It’s at least eight (new seats)," Syracuse Vice President and Chief Campus Facilities Officer Pete Sala said. “Where do you find those seats? Well, we found them this summer.”

Sala noted that the school moved people around to create an additional eight courtside seats this season on both ends of the official scorer’s table. There are four on each side of the table, and the seats position fans almost directly next to each team’s bench.

“There’s four people that sit by me on the visiting team’s end. On the other end there’s four other seats," Sala said. "A lot of other venues are selling seats by the bench. It’s common. John came to us over the summer and said, ‘Is this something we can do?’ Of course we’re going to do it.”

The most noteworthy group is the cluster of four that has been used by local businessman Adam Weitsman, who is positioned next to the Syracuse bench and who attended a game earlier this year with actress and model Brooke Burke.

Thanks to my good friend Brooke for flying from Cali yesterday to watch the Orange play 🍊 at the dome with Clover and I. Best time with the best of people. ❤️ #BrookeBurke #GoOrange🍊 Posted by Adam Weitsman on Wednesday, February 6, 2019

Syracuse officials addressed the attendance question, as well as others, during a news conference on Tuesday to go over some of the logistics of a big sports weekend at the school. Syracuse is pushing for record crowds in men’s basketball on Saturday and women’s basketball on Monday. Both games will be broadcast on ESPN, which will also host its marquee college basketball program, ESPN GameDay, from inside the Carrier Dome. In between, on Sunday, Syracuse will host a pair of lacrosse games.

Syracuse officials would not specifically say what the expected attendance is for the Duke game. If the courtside seats are the only additions, the new attendance record will be 35,454. Attendance has been capped at 35,446 since 2014. Syracuse has hit that mark twice, in 2014 and 2015, the only two times that Duke has come to Syracuse for weekend games.

The Carrier Dome is the largest on-campus venue in the country by a significant margin, routinely helping SU draw the biggest crowds in the country. Kentucky’s Rupp Arena is the second-largest and holds 23,000 people.

Syracuse certainly could have sold more seats to the game if it wanted to. The most expensive tickets currently listed on the secondary market are going for $7,300 on StubHub. The lowest asking price on StubHub is $24.58. Demand for the game is high, particularly since the Blue Devils have the No. 1 team in the country and a freshman phenomenon in Zion Williamson, who is expected to be the No. 1 pick in the NBA Draft.

Wildhack said the school did not sell more because it wanted to maintain the quality of the tickets that it sold and did not want to sell any obstructed view seats.

“Pete and I worked hard this summer to sell the eight," Wildhack said. “The key is we don’t want to sell anything where you can’t see all four corners of the court. We’re not going to do that. I know it’s impactful. I know our fans like it. We will set a record.”

Along with the men’s record, Syracuse is trying to set a school record for a women’s basketball game, breaking the mark of 11,021 that was set on Feb 19, 2017. The Orange play defending national champion Notre Dame at 6 p.m. on Monday in a battle of ranked teams.

In a previous interview with Syracuse.com, Wildhack said the school has pushed hard for the school record by working with the school’s business and community partners and providing them tickets for $2 each if they were willing to buy at least 500.

The school record, Wildhack said, will be broken by a wider margin on the women’s side, likely by more than 1,000 fans.

“More than eight,” Wildhack joked. “I think we’re on track to take that number and beat it significantly. I’m not prepared to share that number, but we’ve got a chance to have something that will be really, really special."

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