Alumni Arena (University at Buffalo)
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| Alumni Arena | |
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| Location | 175 Webster Road Amherst, NY 14221 |
| Coordinates | 42°59′57″N 78°46′39″W / 42.99917°N 78.7775°WCoordinates: 42°59′57″N 78°46′39″W / 42.99917°N 78.7775°W |
| Broke ground | 1978 |
| Opened | December 3, 1982 |
| Owner | University at Buffalo |
| Operator | University at Buffalo |
| Surface | Multi-surface |
| Construction cost | $26,309,000 ($63.4 million in 2012 dollars[1]) |
| Architect | Robert Trayham Coles |
| Structural engineer | Sargent Webster Crenshaw & Folley |
| Capacity | 6,100 |
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| Buffalo Bulls (men's and women's Basketball) (NCAA) |
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Alumni Arena is a multi-purpose arena in Amherst, New York. The arena is home to the University at Buffalo. The nickname for the men's and women's basketball, women's volleyball, and wrestling teams is the Buffalo Bulls. The facility currently seats 6,100 people. A current renovation will introduce new lighting, a new sound system, and four new central video-boards for the 2012 year.[citation needed]
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The Recreation and Athletics Complex (RAC) on the University's North Campus includes Alumni Arena, a $12.5 million Phase II Building and a $1.5 million outdoor playing fields complex.
Alumni Arena's main gymnasium is home to the Bulls men's and women's basketball teams, wrestling team and the women's volleyball team. The largest "free-floating" hardwood floor in the United States at the time it was built,[citation needed] it features basketball, volleyball and badminton courts circled by a 200-meter track and seating for 6,100 spectators following renovations during the summer of 2004. The arena used to seat more than 8,000 people, but a renovation project funded by the Blue & White club reduced the seating to 6,100 by eliminating bleachers and adding chairbacks.
The student section's location also changed with the renovations. Before the renovations, the students used to generally sit behind the scorer's table, from baseline to baseline, except immediately behind the players’ benches.
For basketball, Alumni Arena ranks as the second-largest on-campus facility in the state of New York, behind only Syracuse's Carrier Dome.[citation needed] For volleyball matches, a specially designed sport-court from the 1993 World University Games is utilized.[citation needed]
The building includes three levels of offices, locker rooms, equipment and training-therapy rooms, seminar rooms and racquetball courts. The Phase II Building on the north side of Alumni Arena has an Olympic-sized swimming pool and a separate diving well, a triple gymnasium and dance studio. Other areas are a wrestling practice room, two weight-training rooms (a fitness center and a varsity weight room) additional racquetball and squash courts, an erg room, and an aerobics room.
The playing fields complex is located behind Alumni Arena and features lighted soccer fields, field hockey, softball and several multi-purpose fields, 10 tennis courts, two basketball courts, two handball courts and an archery range. On February 3rd, 2012, the Harlem Globetrotters played on the Bulls court.
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[edit] Gallery
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Alumni Arena with improvements in 2012
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The student section at Alumni Arena during a Buffalo Bulls basketball game in January 2006
[edit] References
- ^ Consumer Price Index (estimate) 1800–2008. Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. Retrieved February 22, 2012.
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