McLeod Center

McLeod Center
Construction

Location	Cedar Falls, Iowa, USA
Owner	University of Northern Iowa
Operator	University of Northern Iowa
Capacity	7,018
Surface	Multi-surface
Broke ground	October 9, 2004
Built	2004–2006
Opened	November 18, 2006
Construction cost	$26 million ($30.5 million in 2016 dollars^[1])
Architect	HLKB Architecture Crawford Architects
Structural engineer	Martin/Martin, Inc.^[2]
Services engineer	M-E Engineers, Inc.^[3]
General contractor	Cardinal Construction^[4]
Tenants
UNI Panthers (NCAA DI) (2006–present)

The McLeod Center is a 6,650-seat multi-purpose arena on the campus of the University of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls, Iowa, currently housing the school's teams in men's and women's basketball, women's volleyball, and wrestling. The arena opened November 18, 2006 with a volleyball game against Bradley. The other three UNI teams made their debuts in the facility over the next three days—men's basketball versus Milwaukee on November 19, women's basketball against Iowa State on November 20, and wrestling versus Iowa on November 21.

The McLeod Center replaced the UNI-Dome as the home of the school's basketball teams and West Gymnasium as the home of the volleyball and wrestling teams. The McLeod Center is located on the west end of the campus, directly south of the UNI-Dome and connected by a covered walkway that also houses an extensive athletic hall of fame.

A video board is located on the south wall with home and visiting team scoreboards on either side showing the player's game information. There are two scoreboards on the north side and ribbon boards above the concession stands on the east and west sides.

Since opening, the arena has had quite a significant positive economic impact for the university. It brings in $20-25 million annually, doubled the attendance of basketball games, and has almost 400,000 total visitors a year.

The arena also hosts commencement ceremonies throughout the year and can be used for recreation upon request.

During the 2009-2010 and 2014-2015 Men's basketball seasons, the team went undefeated at the McLeod Center. This can be attributed to the fact that during UNI basketball games, it can become notoriously noisy, especially in the rowdy student section.

It was rumored that the noise reached 100.3 decibels during an upset of then-#1 North Carolina in the 2015-16 season.

McLeod Center Interior

Other

On May 18th, 2010, the McLeod Center became the first building in Iowa to host the 14th Dalai Lama.
On October 24, 2010 Bob Dylan performed at the venue.
Other artists who have performed include Luke Bryan, Rodney Atkins, The All-American Rejects, Meat Loaf, Miranda Lambert, Gloriana (band), and Alan Jackson.

References

↑ "Consumer Price Index (estimate) 1800–". Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. Retrieved November 10, 2015.
↑ MPA Focus Summer 09
↑ "College Arenas". M-E Engineers, Inc. Archived from the original on January 13, 2008.
↑ McLeod Center | Rod Library

External links

University of Northern Iowa

Academics	Colleges Business Education Graduate College Humanities, Arts and Sciences Social and Behavioral Sciences

Athletics	Men's Baseball Cross Country Basketball Football Golf Track & Field Wrestling Women's Basketball Cross Country Golf Soccer Softball Swimming & Diving Tennis Track & Field Volleyball Venues McLeod Center O. R. Latham Stadium UNI-Dome People Mark Farley Ben Jacobsen Doug Schwab Tanya Warren

Campus	Buildings University of Northern Iowa Gallery of Art

History	UNI Presidents Notable Alumni

Media	KICJ KUNI North American Review The Northern Iowan

Related	Camp Adventure

Northern Iowa Panthers men's basketball

Venues	UNI-Dome (1976–2006) McLeod Center (2006–present)

Culture & lore	2007 Summer Universiade Iowa "Big Four"

People	Head coaches

Seasons	1900–01 1901–02 1902–03 1903–04 1904–05 1905–06 1906–07 1907–08 1908–09 1909–10 1910–11 1911–12 1912–13 1913–14 1914–15 1915–16 1916–17 1917–18 1918–19 1919–20 1920–21 1921–22 1922–23 1923–24 1924–25 1925–26 1926–27 1927–28 1928–29 1929–30 1930–31 1931–32 1932–33 1933–34 1934–35 1935–36 1936–37 1937–38 1938–39 1939–40 1940–41 1941–42 1942–43 1943–44 1944–45 1945–46 1946–47 1947–48 1948–49 1949–50 1950–51 1951–52 1952–53 1953–54 1954–55 1955–56 1956–57 1957–58 1958–59 1959–60 1960–61 1961–62 1962–63 1963–64 1964–65 1965–66 1966–67 1967–68 1968–69 1969–70 1970–71 1971–72 1972–73 1973–74 1974–75 1975–76 1976–77 1977–78 1978–79 1979–80 1980–81 1981–82 1982–83 1983–84 1984–85 1985–86 1986–87 1987–88 1988–89 1989–90 1990–91 1991–92 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95 1995–96 1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 1999–00 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16

Basketball arenas in the Missouri Valley Conference

Carver Arena (Bradley, men's) Renaissance Coliseum (Bradley, women's) Knapp Center (Drake) Ford Center (Evansville) Redbird Arena (Illinois State) Hulman Center (Indiana State) Joseph J. Gentile Arena (Loyola) JQH Arena (Missouri State) McLeod Center (Northern Iowa) SIU Arena (Southern Illinois) Charles Koch Arena (Wichita State)

Coordinates: 42°30′50″N 92°28′02″W / 42.51395°N 92.46714°W / 42.51395; -92.46714

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Thursday, March 17, 2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.