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LSU Assembly Center

101 N Stadium Rd

Baton Rouge, LA 70802

Opened: January 3, 1972

Originally known as the LSU Assembly Center, now called the Pete Maravich Assembly Center, is a 13,215 seat multi-purpose arena in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The arena opened in 1972. It is home to the Louisiana State University Tigers and Lady Tigers basketball teams, the LSU Tigers women's gymnastics team and the LSU Tigers women's volleyball team. It was originally known as the LSU Assembly Center, but was renamed in honor of Pete Maravich, a Tiger basketball legend, shortly after his death in 1988. Louisiana governor Buddy Roemer signed an act to rename the building in Maravich's honor (under Louisiana law, no LSU or state owned building may be named after a living person). Maravich never played in the arena as a collegian but played in it as a member of the Atlanta Hawks in a preseason game. But his exploits while at LSU led the university to build a larger home for the basketball team, which languished for decades in the shadow of the school's football program. The Maravich Center is known to locals as "The PMAC" or "Pete's Palace", or by its more nationally known nickname, "The Deaf Dome", coined by Dick Vitale. The Maravich Center's neighbor, Tiger Stadium is known as "Death Valley".

The slightly oval building is located directly to the north of Tiger Stadium, and its bright-white roof can be seen in many telecasts of that stadium. The arena concourse is divided into four quadrants: Pete Maravich Pass, The Walk of Champions, Heroes Hall and Midway of Memories. The quadrants highlight former LSU Tiger athletes, individual and team awards and memorabilia pertaining to the history of LSU basketball, gymnastics and volleyball. There are 11,230 permanent seats in the arena. 6,931 upper-level seats, 4,299 lower-level seats and 2,000 seats on retractable risers.

It played host to the NCAA men's basketball tournament twice, in 1976 and 1986. In 1976, Indiana University defeated Alabama and Marquette in the Mideast Regional en route to an undefeated season and the national championship, and in 1986, LSU defeated Purdue and Memphis State (now Memphis) to begin an unlikely run to the Final Four as a #11 seed, the first of only three 11 seeds to reach the national semifinals (the others being George Mason in 2006 and VCU in 2011).

The Maravich Assembly Center has played host to NIT Men's Tournament games in 1982, 1983, 2002, and 2018.

The Maravich Center also played host to the 1981 SEC women's basketball tournament, the 1988 SEC men's basketball tournament and two SEC Volleyball Tournaments.

Last 10 Games
Date	Opponents	Result

Mar 12, 1988	Kentucky @ LSU #	86 - 80
Mar 11, 1988	Vanderbilt @ LSU #	80 - 87
Mar 6, 1988	Florida @ LSU	69 - 86
Mar 5, 1988	Auburn @ LSU	89 - 80
Feb 17, 1988	Georgia @ LSU	62 - 63
Feb 13, 1988	Tennessee @ LSU	62 - 92
Feb 10, 1988	Ole Miss @ LSU	57 - 78
Feb 6, 1988	Vanderbilt @ LSU	79 - 94
Jan 30, 1988	Mississippi State @ LSU	49 - 47
Jan 23, 1988	Kentucky @ LSU	76 - 61
	# - 1987-88 SEC Conference Tournament