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Charlotte Y. Martin Centre

710 Lower Kennedy Dr

Spokane, WA 99258

Opened: December 3, 1965

Charlotte Y. Martin Centre is an athletics center on the campus of Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington. Its multi-purpose arena has a seating capacity of 4,000. The Martin Centre is the home court of the women's volleyball team, and was home of men's and women's basketball teams until the fall of 2004, when the adjacent $25 million McCarthey Athletic Center (MAC) opened. An exception was the partial hiatus in the 1979-80 season when the men's team returned to its former home of the Spokane Coliseum for WCAC home games only, The Pavilion was affectionately known as The Kennel, a reference to the enthusiastic capacity crowds for Bulldog basketball, a nickname which transferred to the MAC.

Ground was broken in June 1964 on the $1.1 million center, which opened in late 1965 as the John F. Kennedy Memorial Pavilion, with a capacity of 3,800 for basketball. The center included a 6-lane 25-yard (23 m) swimming pool. The dedication ceremony on November 21 was attended by 6,000 and included the late president's brother, U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts. The first varsity event on December 3 was a basketball game against Washington State, won by the visiting Cougars 106-78 before an overflow crowd of 4,300.

Charlotte Martin, the daughter-in-law of former governor Clarence D. Martin, donated $4.5 million in 1987 for the renovation of the complex and it was renamed for her as part of Gonzaga's centennial celebrations on March 17. Mrs. Martin died less than eight months later, at age 68.

Prior to the Spokane Coliseum's opening in 1955, Gonzaga basketball games were played on campus at "The Cave," a gymnasium in the administration building.

In late 1968, the English rock group Led Zeppelin played their fifth-ever American concert at the Kennedy Pavilion on December 30, opening for Vanilla Fudge and erroneously billed as "Len Zefflin"; the first known bootleg recording of the band originated from this performance. The bands were welcomed to Spokane with frigid sub-zero temperatures

Last 10 Games
Date	Opponents	Result

Feb 28, 2004	Santa Clara @ Gonzaga	64 - 80
Feb 26, 2004	San Diego @ Gonzaga	78 - 97
Feb 18, 2004	Portland @ Gonzaga	69 - 79
Feb 7, 2004	Loyola Marymount @ Gonzaga	57 - 87
Feb 5, 2004	Pepperdine @ Gonzaga	73 - 93
Jan 17, 2004	Saint Marys @ Gonzaga	61 - 75
Jan 15, 2004	San Francisco @ Gonzaga	50 - 92
Jan 4, 2004	Montana @ Gonzaga	67 - 88
Dec 31, 2003	Eastern Washington @ Gonzaga	70 - 49
Dec 28, 2003	Washington State @ Gonzaga	58 - 96