page_title: Greensboro Coliseum Complex
section_title: Basketball
hierarchical_section_title: Greensboro Coliseum Complex / Sports / Basketball
caption_attribution_description: No. 1 UNC vs. No. 16 Radford had the arena full. Not exactly a great game, but got to see Tyler Hansbrough break the all-time scoring record for the ACC. Game 2 of the day. Game 1 was my beloved LSU Tigers against Butler. Geaux Tigers!
context_page_description: The Greensboro Coliseum Complex is an entertainment and sports complex located in Greensboro, North Carolina. Opened in 1959, the arena was once one of the largest venues in the South, with a seating capacity of over 23,500. The complex holds eight venues that includes an amphitheater, arena, aquatic center, banquet hall, convention center, museum, theatre, and an indoor pavilion. It is the home of the UNC Greensboro Spartans men's basketball team, the Greensboro Swarm of the NBA G League, the Carolina Cobras of the National Arena League, as well as the Atlantic Coast Conference with their Men's and Women's Basketball Tournaments.
  It has hosted the Men's ACC Tournament twenty-three times since 1967 and the Women's ACC Tournament twelve times since 2000. The Coliseum hosted both tournaments until 2015. Other notable sporting events include the National Collegiate Athletic Association Men's "Final Four" in 1974 and the East Regionals in 1976, 1979 and 1998. More recently, the Coliseum has hosted the U.S. Figure Skating Championships in 2011 and 2015 and will host again in 2020.
context_section_description: The Carolina Cougars of the American Basketball Association played a majority of their home games at the Greensboro Coliseum during their tenure in North Carolina from 1969 to 1974, before moving to St. Louis and becoming the Spirits of St. Louis. The Greensboro City Gaters played their first and only season as a charter franchise of the Global Basketball Association minor league in 1991–1992 in the Greensboro Coliseum.
  The Greensboro Coliseum has played host to many college basketball tournaments. The Atlantic Coast Conference has held their men's basketball tournament at the Coliseum 23 times since 1967, the most of any venue. This is in part because the arena was within seven hours' drive of the conference's original footprint, and is within an hour of most of the fanbases of the conference's heartland in North Carolina. The Greensboro Coliseum also hosted the Big Four Tournament from 1971 to 1981.  The Coliseum hosted the 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014, and 2015 men's tournament. It has also hosted the MEAC Men's Basketball Tournament ten times.
  It has played host to 12 Men's NCAA Tournaments, most notably the 1974 Final Four and Lehigh's upset of Duke in 2012. It hosted the NCAA Tournament in 2006 and 2009, when it served as a first and second round site. It was the host of the Southern Conference men's basketball tournament from 1996 to 1999. The Coliseum has been the home for the ACC Women's Basketball Tournament since 2000, and is contracted through 2015. It hosted the Greensboro Regional in the Women's NCAA Tournament in 2007 and 2008. The Coliseum is the first arena to host three basketball tournaments in consecutive weeks. The Coliseum has also hosted NBA basketball, high school basketball, and the Harlem Globetrotters.
  From 1959 to 1989, the Wake Forest Demon Deacons basketball team played a portion of its home schedule at the Coliseum, usually games against popular opponents that could not be accommodated in the smaller Winston-Salem Memorial Coliseum. In practice, Wake Forest played most of its ACC games during this period at the Coliseum. From the 1960s to the 1980s, North Carolina, Duke and North Carolina State frequently played neutral-site games at the Coliseum, owing to the fact that it was the state's largest arena at the time. The Tar Heels still occasionally play a neutral-site game here, as late as 2012. Between its service as Wake Forest's de facto primary home court and its many neutral-site and postseason games, the Coliseum has hosted many of the most important basketball games in North Carolina's history.
  Since 2010, the UNC Greensboro Spartans men's basketball team has played at the Coliseum, having moved there from the smaller Fleming Gymnasium on the campus of UNCG. For Spartans games, most of the upper level is curtained off.
  In October 2015, the Charlotte Hornets chose Greensboro for the location of their new NBA G-League team the Greensboro Swarm. The Swarm began play at the Fieldhouse in the 2016–17 season.
  On October 6, 2016, the Hornets played a preseason game against the Boston Celtics at the Coliseum.
caption: UNC vs. Radford (c.2009).
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