Maravich Center 11.5 Million
Original cost of building -- $11.5 million; one of the most visible structures on campus.
NCAAs
Site of two NCAA Men’s Regional Basketball Tournaments: 1976, 1986
NITs
ite of six NIT pre- and post-season events: 1982, 1983, 1987, 1989, 2002, 2009, S 2018
2008, 2009, 2012, 2013, 2014
Site of NCAA Women’s Basketball First and Second Rounds in 2008 and 2009; 2012-2014.
East to West
ast-to-West, you can put a football field and still have almost 33 yards of E space left.
North to South
North-to-South, you can put another gridiron and have about 13 yards extra.
3,113,380
here are over one-fifth of a million square feet enclosed and over one-quarter T of a million square feet throughout for a total of 3,113,380 cubic feet.
1,750
A total of 1,750 tons of air conditioning keeps the interior at year-round comfort.
13,215
eats 13,215 spectators after $5 million renovation to concourse S and seating areas.
Katrina, the athletic department was able to finish its renovation in time for the
2005-06 season and turn the building back
into a showcase for LSU men’s basketball. An interactive concourse area depicting the history of the great players who have starred for LSU in the building, additional restrooms, new seats throughout the arena have taken the building to a new level. Now, the building features a practice facility for men and women along with a men’s locker room complex helping the Assembly Center’s appeal for players and fans for years to come. The Maravich Assembly Center is, like the other venues LSU basketball has bounced around in through its long history, unique in its own way. Before moving across from Tiger Stadium (in the 1971-72 season), the Tigers set up shop in the Pavilion on the old LSU
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campus, the Huey Long Field House Gym Armory (now the Cox Communications Academic Center) and the John M. Parker Agricultural Center. LSU and SEC fans knew the latter as the “Cow Palace” as it served as the primary home for LSU basketball for four decades. The building opened as the LSU Assembly Center, but during the summer of 1988, then Louisiana Governor Buddy Roemer signed legislation changing the official name of the building to the Pete Maravich Assembly Center in honor of the LSU star who had died tragically earlier that same year. The Maravich Center is also the home for the LSU volleyball, gymnastics and women’s basketball teams.
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