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Tuesday saw the smallest Alabama-Auburn crowd ever played at the SEC Tournament in Hoover. Today's afternoon game brought the smallest Alabama-LSU crowd ever in the tournament while in Hoover.

LSU's 3-0 victory was played before an announced crowd of 6,197 fans. The previous low for an Alabama-LSU game was 2009, when 6,524 saw a Thursday mid-afternoon game.

"The crowds for both games (Alabama-Auburn and Alabama-LSU) were slightly less than we anticipated," said Gene Hallman, CEO of Bruno Event Team, which manages the tournament. "It's hard to explain why. Ticket sales for the entire week are still tracking ahead of last year's pace."

Alabama and LSU typically draw some of the largest crowds, especially when they play each other. Three of the nine largest crowds in SEC Tournament history are Alabama-LSU games.

Today marked the smallest SEC Tournament crowd for any Alabama game since drawing 5,894 against Georgia in 2008. It was the smallest crowd for any LSU game since 2009, when 5,356 saw the Tigers play Georgia.

Announced attendance through three sessions at the SEC Tournament is down 3 percent from last year and 13 percent from 2011. New formats pushed the tournament to start on Tuesday instead of Wednesday in each of the past two years.

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In April of 2013, the Birmingham Barons Baseball Club played their first game in their new ballpark, Regions Field. The state-of-the-art 8,500 seat facility in the heart of downtown replaced Hoover Metropolitan Stadium, the home of the Barons since 1988.

Seems like there is plenty of seating to spare.