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Roanoke Civic Center
710 Williamson Road Northeast
Roanoke, VA 24016
Opened: October 3, 1971
Originally known as the Roanoke Civic Center, now called the Berglund Center, is a 10,500 seat multi-purpose arena located in the Williamson Road neighborhood of Roanoke, Virginia. It was built in 1971. It was the former home to the Roanoke Dazzle basketball team, as well as the Roanoke Express and Roanoke Valley Vipers ice hockey teams. Currently, it is the home of the Roanoke Rail Yard Dawgs of the Southern Professional Hockey League, Virginia Tech, Radford University and Roanoke College men's ice hockey teams. The arena is also the home of the annual boys basketball games between Roanoke's two city high schools, Patrick Henry High School and William Fleming High School.

Opened in October 1971, the Roanoke Civic Center was also the former home of the American Basketball Association (1967-1976) professional basketball franchise Virginia Squires. The Squires played there (in addition to the Norfolk Scope, Richmond Coliseum and Hampton Coliseum; all within the state of Virginia) from 1971 to 1972. The Virginia Squires used the Civic Center for only one season due to low attendance, before folding in 1976. Elvis Presley performed there in 1972, 1974, 1976, and was due to return in 1977, about a week after his death. It hosted 251 professional wrestling events between 1975 and 2013. WCW held Fall Brawl (1994) there and Monday Nitro on March 31, 1997. WWE brought Monday Night Raw on December 1, 1997, May 6, 2013, and November 17, 2014. The 1977-1981 Southern Conference men's basketball tournaments were held there as well.

From 2001 to 2006, professional basketball was active again at the Roanoke Civic Center, with the National Basketball Association's D-League franchise, the Roanoke Dazzle. College basketball was also recently contested there, in the form of the Big South Conference men's basketball tournaments in 2001 and 2002. The Metro Conference men's basketball tournament was held here in 1991. When both the Dazzle and Vipers folded after the 2005-06 season, the Roanoke Civic Center was left with 60 open dates to fill for the upcoming fall and winter. Eventually, nearly two-thirds of these open dates were awarded to the Virginia Tech, Radford University and Roanoke College hockey clubs, the arena's primary tenants until 2016, when the Mississippi Surge relocated to Roanoke, becoming the Rail Yard Dawgs.
Last 10 Games
Date Opponents Result
Mar 2, 2002High Point @ Winthrop #70 - 48
Mar 1, 2002Elon @ Winthrop #77 - 66
Mar 1, 2002High Point @ Radford #72 - 70
Feb 28, 2002Elon @ Charleston Southern #64 - 83
Feb 28, 2002Coastal Carolina @ Radford #81 - 66
Feb 28, 2002Liberty @ Winthrop #66 - 59
Feb 28, 2002High Point @ UNC Asheville #72 - 71
Mar 3, 2001Winthrop @ Radford $67 - 65
Mar 2, 2001Liberty @ Winthrop #62 - 67
Mar 2, 2001Charleston Southern @ Radford #62 - 65

# - 2001-02 Big South Conference Tournament
$ - 2000-01 Big South Conference Tournament