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Bob Devaney Sports Center
1600 Court St
Lincoln, NE 68588
Opened: November 27, 1976
The Bob Devaney Sports Center (commonly referred to as the Devaney Center, formerly the NU Sports Complex) is a sports complex on the campus of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in Lincoln, Nebraska. The 7,909 seat arena opened in 1976 and serves as the primary home venue for several of Nebraska's athletic programs. The complex is named for Bob Devaney, who served as Nebraska's football coach from 1962 to 1972 and athletic director from 1967 to 1992.

The Devaney Center opened in 1976 with a capacity of 13,595, replacing the Nebraska Coliseum as the primary home venue for Nebraska's men's and women's basketball programs. Initially called the NU Sports Complex, it was later named for College Football Hall of Fame head coach Bob Devaney, who led Nebraska's football program to two national championships and served as athletic director for twenty-five years. Nebraska's men's team played at the Devaney Center from 1976 until 2013, compiling a record of 477-148 in its thirty-seven years at the arena. The highest attendance recorded at the arena was 15,038, a 62–54 Nebraska win over Oklahoma State on February 7, 1981.

From December 1986 to January 1989, Nebraska's women's team won twenty-nine consecutive games at the Devaney Center, an arena record. Decades later, NU's record-setting 32-2 season in 2009-10 produced the only regular-season sellout in program history, a 67-51 win for No. 3 Nebraska over Missouri. While Pinnacle Bank Arena became the home venue for NU's men's and women's basketball teams in 2013, both programs practice and train at the Hendricks Training Complex at the Devaney Center.

The arena hosted first and second round games in the 1980, 1984, and 1988 men's NCAA basketball tournaments, and first round games in the 1993 women's tournament. Michael Jordan and Magic Johnson both played preseason NBA games at the arena; during a 1995 game featuring Jordan's Bulls against former NU star Eric Piatkowski and the Los Angeles Clippers, Chicago center Dennis Rodman was called for two technical fouls and ejected to a standing ovation from the Devaney Center crowd.
Last 10 Games
Date Opponents Result
Mar 6, 2013Minnesota @ Nebraska 51 - 53
Feb 23, 2013Iowa @ Nebraska 60 - 64
Feb 16, 2013Michigan St. @ Nebraska 73 - 64
Feb 9, 2013Penn State @ Nebraska 53 - 67
Feb 2, 2013Ohio State @ Nebraska 63 - 56
Jan 26, 2013Northwestern @ Nebraska 49 - 64
Jan 22, 2013Illinois @ Nebraska 71 - 51
Jan 16, 2013Purdue @ Nebraska 65 - 56
Jan 6, 2013Wisconsin @ Nebraska 47 - 41
Dec 29, 2012Nicholls State @ Nebraska 59 - 68