Mitchell Center
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| Mitchell Center | |
|---|---|
| Location | Mobile, AL 36608 |
| Opened | 1998 |
| Owner | University of South Alabama |
| Operator | University of South Alabama |
| Tenants | |
| USA Jaguars (Men's and women's basketball) | |
| Capacity | |
| 10,041 | |
Mitchell Center is a 10,041-seat multi-purpose arena in Mobile, Alabama. It was built in 1998. It is home to the University of South Alabama Jaguars basketball team.
The venue can seat 3,500 for theatrical presentations, 7,354 for front-of-arena concerts, 8,777 for the circus and auto racing, and 10,800 for full-arena concerts; it has become the premier sports and entertainment venue in the region.
The arena contains 18,080 square feet of arena floor space; 6,918 square feet of meeting rooms space and an additional 4,230 square feet in the Globe area, where the Waterman Globe is located. The arena's eight-sided Daktronics center-hung scoreboard features four video screens. There are 16 ticket windows, a 14,000-watt sound system, a 60-by-40-foot portable stage; four dressing and two team locker rooms, a training room, a production office and in-house catering. The arena measures 63'8" for floor to the roof. There is parking for 4,450 cars within a ten-minute walk of the arena, including 450 at the arena itself.
It hosted the 2001 Sun Belt Conference men’s basketball tournament and is scheduled to do so again in 2008.
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| Current Basketball Arenas in the Sun Belt Conference |
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| Cajundome (Louisiana-Lafayette) • Convocation Center (Arkansas State) • E.A. Diddle Arena (Western Kentucky) • Fant-Ewing Coliseum (Louisiana-Monroe) • FAU Arena (Florida Atlantic) • Jack Stephens Center (Arkansas-Little Rock) • Lakefront Arena (New Orleans) • Magness Arena (Denver) • Mitchell Center (South Alabama) • Murphy Center (Middle Tennessee) • Pharmed Arena (Florida International) • Super Pit (North Texas) • Trojan Arena (Troy)
Temporary: Human Performance Center (New Orleans) |
| Current arenas in the American Basketball Association Blue Conference |
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| North Division | Central Division | South Division | Southeast Division | |||||
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| Barre Auditorium1 | Buffalo State Sports Arena | Burlington Memorial Auditorium2 | Centre Pierre Charbonneau | Nauset Regional High School | PEPS | Cape Fear Community College | Essex County College | Kingsborough Community College | Montgomery College | Suffolk County Community College | Howard School of Academics and Technology | Mitchell Center | Suwanee Sports Academy | Washington County Convention Center | Downtown Recreation Center | FAU Arena | University of North Florida Arena | |||||
| 1The Vermont Frost Heaves play half of their home games at Barre Auditorium. 2The Vermont Frost Heaves play half of their home games at Burlington Memorial Auditorium. |
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