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Hartford Civic Center

1 Civic Center Plaza

Hartford, CT

Opened: January 9, 1975

The Hartford Civic Center, now known as the XL Center, is a multi-purpose arena and convention center located in downtown Hartford, Connecticut. Owned by the City of Hartford, it is managed by the quasi-public Capital Region Development Authority (CRDA) under a lease with the city and operated by Spectra. In December 2007, the center was renamed when the arena's naming rights were sold to XL Group insurance company in a six-year agreement. The arena is ranked the 28th largest among college basketball arenas. It opened in 1975 as the Hartford Civic Center and was originally located adjacent to Civic Center Mall, which was demolished in 2004. It consists of two facilities: the Veterans Memorial Coliseum and the Exhibition Center.

The Civic Center is the full-time home of the Hartford Wolf Pack AHL hockey team and part-time home of the University of Connecticut (UConn) men's and women's basketball teams and the UConn Huskies men's ice hockey team. Starting in the late 1990s, UConn men's basketball moved most of their important games, including the bulk of their Big East Conference games, to the Coliseum. During the 2011-2012 season, for instance, they played 11 home games at the Coliseum and only eight at their on-campus facility, Gampel Pavilion. This practice continued when the Huskies joined the American Athletic Conference, successor to the original Big East, in 2013.

The ECAC New England Region Tournament, a National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I men's college basketball tournament organized by the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC), took place at the Hartford Civic Center on March 3 and 5, 1977. The tournament champion received an automatic bid to the 1977 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament.

The 1982 Big East Conference and 1988-1990 America East Conference men's basketball tournaments were also here, as well as occasional games of the UConn Huskies men's basketball team.

Last 10 Games
Date	Opponents	Result

Nov 19, 2006	Central Arkansas @ Fairfield	46 - 43
Nov 18, 2006	Central Arkansas @ Ole Miss	75 - 61
Nov 17, 2006	Ole Miss @ Fairfield	67 - 70
Dec 12, 2002	Central Connecticut St. @ Yale	71 - 59
Dec 11, 2002	Central Connecticut St. @ Hartford	70 - 66
Dec 11, 2002	Holy Cross @ Yale	70 - 66
Feb 16, 2002	BC @ Uconn	79 - 77
Jan 7, 2002	Oklahoma @ Uconn	67 - 69
Dec 28, 2001	St. Bonaventure @ Uconn	70 - 88
Dec 21, 2001	Quinnipiac @ Uconn	79 - 95