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Once-feared basketball arenas that have lost their panache

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Visiting teams used to fear to play road games at these famous sites, but now they are just a blip on the radar:

The Haskins Center at UTEP

The Pit (officially renamed Dreamstyle Arena) at New Mexico

Pauly Pavilion at UCLA

Memorial Gymnasium at Vanderbilt

Can you think of any others?
 

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From this....
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to this
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LJVM Coliseum @ Wake
 

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Visiting teams used to fear to play road games at these famous sites, but now they are just a blip on the radar:

The Haskins Center at UTEP

The Pit (officially renamed Dreamstyle Arena) at New Mexico

Pauly Pavilion at UCLA

Memorial Gymnasium at Vanderbilt

Can you think of any others?
Coleman Colosseum has pretty much been a dump since I can remember so at least you don't have worry about it.
 
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Pmac LSU. And whichever one Arkansas plays in, forget what its called. like Tenn football, ark. Basketball has been bad for 20 yrs but they like to live in the 90s.
 

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Pmac LSU. And whichever one Arkansas plays in, forget what its called. like Tenn football, ark. Basketball has been bad for 20 yrs but they like to live in the 90s.

Bud Walton. We lost more home games this past year than we have in a while but prior to this year we were usually damn hard to beat at home. We were 117-21 at home under Anderson but went 7-4 this year.

Hoping the excitement with Musselman can get us back to a consistent 16,000+ in the arena again.
 

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Oregon used to have this tiny arena that would shake when the crowd got into it. People were right on the lines...

Then Knight had a new arena built and it's pretty quiet in there.
 

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Oregon used to have this tiny arena that would shake when the crowd got into it. People were right on the lines...

Then Knight had a new arena built and it's pretty quiet in there.
I liked McArthur Court way more too. Arizona's old gym is office space now.
 

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Oregon used to have this tiny arena that would shake when the crowd got into it. People were right on the lines...

Then Knight had a new arena built and it's pretty quiet in there.
The basketball floor can give you a headache.
 

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Visiting teams used to fear to play road games at these famous sites, but now they are just a blip on the radar:

The Haskins Center at UTEP

The Pit (officially renamed Dreamstyle Arena) at New Mexico

Pauly Pavilion at UCLA

Memorial Gymnasium at Vanderbilt

Can you think of any others?


Duke's home court (Cameron) remains one of the toughest courts in the nation for a visiting team to play on. The Cameron Crazies there will drive a visiting team nuts in that old arena.
 

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Duke's home court (Cameron) remains one of the toughest courts in the nation for a visiting team to play on. The Cameron Crazies there will drive a visiting team nuts in that old arena.

You missed the point of this thread.
 
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