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Bridgestone Arena
501 Broadway
Nashville, TN 37203
Opened: December 18, 1996
Bridgestone Arena (originally Nashville Arena, and formerly Gaylord Entertainment Center and Sommet Center) is a multi-purpose venue in downtown Nashville, Tennessee. Completed in 1996, it is the home of the Nashville Predators of the National Hockey League.

Designed by HOK Sport in conjunction with the Nashville-based architecture/engineering firm Hart Freeland Roberts, INC., it was designed at an angle on the corner of Broadway and 5th Avenue in Nashville in physical homage to the historic Ryman Auditorium, the original home of the Grand Ole Opry. Bridgestone Arena is owned by the Sports Authority of Nashville and Davidson County and operated by Powers Management Company, a subsidiary of the Nashville Predators National Hockey League franchise, which has been its primary tenant since 1998.

The arena has hosted college basketball events, including both men's (2001, 2006, 2010) and women's tournaments of the Southeastern Conference and the Ohio Valley Conference. Nashville will serve as a primary venue for the SEC Men's Basketball Tournament nine times between 2015 and 2025 (2015-2017, 2019-2021, and 2023-2025) after the SEC signed a long-term agreement with the Nashville Sports Council in 2013. It hosted the 2014 NCAA Women's Final Four, the 2018 SEC Women's Basketball Tournament and will host again in 2022 and 2026.

In odd-numbered years, the arena was regularly one of eight sites to host the first and second rounds of the men's NCAA Basketball Tournament for the first ten years of its existence, though it was taken out of the rotation for several years, partly due to the obsolete octagonal mid-1990s-style scoreboard that hung above the arena floor. It was replaced in the summer of 2007 by a new $5 million scoreboard and digital control room. The NCAA Tournament returned to Nashville in 2012.
Last 10 Games
Date Opponents Result
Feb 14, 2026Virginia @ Ohio State 0 - 0
Mar 16, 2025Tennessee @ Florida #77 - 86
Mar 15, 2025Tennessee @ Auburn #70 - 65
Mar 15, 2025Alabama @ Florida #82 - 104
Mar 14, 2025Ole Miss @ Auburn #57 - 62
Mar 14, 2025Texas @ Tennessee #72 - 83
Mar 14, 2025Missouri @ Florida #81 - 95
Mar 14, 2025Kentucky @ Alabama #70 - 99
Mar 13, 2025Arkansas @ Ole Miss #80 - 83
Mar 13, 2025Texas @ Texas A&M #94 - 89

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