What are the earliest active college basketball arenas?
From Duke’s Cameron Indoor Arena to Kansas’ Allen Fieldhouse, some arenas in college basketball are as famous as the teams they display. Though Duke and Kansas have memorable venues, they aren’t among the earliest arenas in the sport.Here’s a take a look at the oldest active arenas in Department I college basketball: Matthews Arena(Boston, Massachusetts)-1910 When it opened in 1910, Matthews Arena’s pamphlet boasted,”It is the most total home of sport in America -the biggest, most total and most intricate temple erected for the enthusiasts of sport in the world.”Home of the Northeastern Huskies guys’s basketball team,” Boston Arena “is the world’s oldest multi-purpose athletic structure that houses the world’s oldest synthetic ice sheet. Matthews is also the home of the Northeastern men’s and females’s ice hockey teams. It seats 5,066 for basketball.Rose Hill Gymnasium(Bronx, New York City)-1925 Home of the Fordham Rams men’s and females’s basketball teams
, Rose Hill Gym is a 3,200-seat multi-purpose arena on
the Rose Hill campus of Fordham University in the Bronx district of New York City. It is the oldest on-campus place used mainly for NCAA Division I basketball.”The Grassy field”also houses the Fordham volleyball group and was the site of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s final high school basketball game in 1965. Lavietes Pavilion(Allston, Massachusetts )-1926 Lavietes Pavilion works as the home of the Harvard guys’s and ladies’s basketball teams.
Previously called the Briggs Athletic Center, the 1,636-seat
arena initially housed Harvard’s indoor track groups. The center honors Ray Lavietes, a two-year letterman for the basketball group. Lavietes ‘contributions motivated a $2.1 million refurbishing task that was finished prior to the 1995-96 season.Palestra(Philadelphia)-1927 The Palestra, home of the Penn Quakers males’s and women’s basketball teams, has been dubbed the”Cathedral of College Basketball”for its influence on the sport in the United States. The arena previously acted as the home of
the initial Philadelphia Big 5 round-robin competitors including Penn, Villanova, La Salle, Temple and Saint Joseph’s. The Palestra seats 8,700. Editor’s Picks 2 Associated Alaska Airlines Arena at Hec Edmundson Structure( Seattle )-1927 Nestled on the University of Washington school, Alaska Airlines Arena at Hec Edmundson Pavilion(or “Hec Ed”)is the basketball home of the Washington Huskies.
The 9,268-seat,
130,000-square-foot arena also houses beach ball and gymnastics. The University of Washington
Structure was renamed after former basketball and track coach Hec Edmundson in 1948. Alaska Airlines ended up being a naming partner in January 2011. Hinkle Fieldhouse( Indianapolis)-1928 Included in the national championship in the movie”Hoosiers,”the 9,100-seat Hinkle Fieldhouse is the historic home of the Butler guys’s and ladies’s basketball teams, along with the school’s volley ball group. “Indiana’s Basketball Cathedral”was relabelled after former Bulldogs coach and athletic director Paul Hinkle in 1966. Williams Arena(Minneapolis)-1928 Williams Arena is the home of Minnesota’s males’s and women’s basketball groups. Referred to as”The Barn,”the facility includes a capability of 14,625 and a court raised two feet above the benches and scorers table.Payne Whitney Gymnasium(New Sanctuary, Connecticut )-1932 Yale’s men’s and females’s basketball, beach ball and gymnastics teams complete in the John J. Lee Amphitheater
, which is situated inside the Payne Whitney Gymnasium. The center, which is open to the Yale community, includes more than 12 acres of area that consists of a nine-and-one-half story tower consisting of a third-floor pool, fencing centers and a polo practice room. The very first basketball game was played in the amphitheater on Dec. 2, 1932, with Yale beating an alumni team 38-16. Avron B. Fogelman Arena in Devlin Fieldhouse (New Orleans )-1933 The Tulane Green Wave’s basketball and volley ball groups suit up inside the 4,100-seat Avron B. Fogelman Arena in Devlin Fieldhouse. The arena within the fieldhouse was called after alumnus Avron Fogelman in 1988. Haas Structure(Berkeley, California) -1933 Formerly Harmon Health Club, the Walter A. Haas Jr. Structure is the home of both the California Golden Bears
men’s and ladies’s basketball teams. The school’s ladies’s volley ball and men’s and females
‘s gymnastics teams likewise compete inside Haas Pavilion, which includes 11,877 seats.Check out the ESPN guys’s college basketball hub page and ESPN women’s college basketball center page for more.