page_title: Dunkin' Donuts Center
section_title: Other college sports
hierarchical_section_title: Dunkin' Donuts Center / Notable performances and events / Sports / Other college sports
caption_attribution_description: English: Providence College hockey Friars beat Cornell, 4-0, in the NCAA Hockey East Regional at the Dunkin’ Donuts Center, Povidence, Rhode Island.
context_page_description: The Dunkin' Donuts Center is an indoor arena located in downtown Providence, Rhode Island. It was built in 1972, as a home court for the emerging Providence College men's basketball program, due to the high demand for tickets to their games in Alumni Hall, as well as for a home arena for the then-Providence Reds, who played in the nearly 50-year-old Rhode Island Auditorium. Current tenants include the Providence Bruins, of the AHL and the Providence College men's basketball team.
context_section_description: The arena has been the site of many collegiate tournaments, including the inaugural 1980 Big East Conference men's basketball tournament; the Division I men's basketball ECAC New England Region Tournament, organized by the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC), in 1978 and 1979; NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament first- and second-round games in 1976, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1989, 1996, 2010, and 2016; the 1978 and 1985 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament East Region finals; the inaugural 1985 Hockey East Tournament, as well as the second tournament a year later in 1986 before the tourney made Boston a permanent home; and the 1978, 1980, 1982, 1986, 1995 and 2000 NCAA Frozen Four ice hockey championships.  The University of Rhode Island (URI) men's basketball team also played some home basketball games at the Providence Civic Center beginning in 1973, although this practice stopped with the opening of the Ryan Center in 2002.
  In 2010, the arena hosted first and second-round games of the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament for the first time since 1996, and will again be scheduled to host the first and second-round games of the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament on March 18, and March 20, 2021.
caption: 2019 NCAA Hockey East Regional at the Dunk, Cornell University vs Providence College
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