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Value City Arena
Home of the Ohio State Buckeyes
555 Borror Dr
Columbus, OH 43210
Opened: November 3, 1998
Value City Arena at the Jerome Schottenstein Center is a multi-purpose arena, located on the campus of Ohio State University, in Columbus, Ohio. The arena opened in 1998 and is currently the largest by seating capacity in the Big Ten Conference, with 19,049 seats, which is reduced to 18,809 for Ohio State men's basketball games.

It is home to Ohio State Buckeyes men's basketball, women's basketball and men's ice hockey teams. Previously, the basketball teams played at St. John Arena, while the ice hockey team played at the OSU Ice Arena. The facility is named the Jerome Schottenstein Center in honor of Jerome Schottenstein, of Columbus, late founder of Schottenstein Stores Corp. and lead benefactor of the project, while the seating bowl is named for Schottenstein's store Value City Furniture.

The student section at men's basketball games is known as the Buckeye Nuthouse. From the time when the venue opened to the end of the 2009-2010 season, the students were seated behind the baskets. In response to the criticism for lacking the energy and gameday atmosphere seen in many other college basketball arenas, the athletic department reconfigured the student section in 2010 so that the students would then be seated behind the team benches allowing them to be visible on television broadcasts, as well as behind the basket that the opponent shoots at during the second half. In making this reconfiguration possible, 240 seats are tarped off behind the student section so that spectators seated behind the students could see the game without having to stand up, reducing its capacity to 18,809 during men's basketball games. To compensate for the revenue lost from the tarped-off seats, the student allotment was reduced from 2,000 to 1,400 tickets.
Last 10 Games
Date Opponents Result
Mar 7, 2026Indiana @ Ohio State 0 - 0
Mar 1, 2026Purdue @ Ohio State 0 - 0
Feb 17, 2026Wisconsin @ Ohio State 0 - 0
Feb 11, 2026USC @ Ohio State 0 - 0
Feb 8, 2026Michigan @ Ohio State 0 - 0
Jan 26, 2026Penn State @ Ohio State 0 - 0
Jan 20, 2026Minnesota @ Ohio State 0 - 0
Jan 17, 2026UCLA @ Ohio State 0 - 0
Jan 5, 2026Nebraska @ Ohio State 0 - 0
Dec 23, 2025Grambling @ Ohio State 0 - 0