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Rose Garden Arena
1 North Center Court St
Portland, OR 97227
Opened: July 12, 1993
Originally known as the Rose Garden Arena, now called the Moda Center, is the primary indoor sports arena in Portland, Oregon. It is used for basketball, ice hockey, rodeos, circuses, conventions, ice shows, concerts, and dramatic productions. The arena has a capacity of 19,393 spectators when configured for basketball. It is equipped with state-of-the-art acoustics and other amenities.

The primary tenant is the Portland Trail Blazers NBA franchise, owned by the Paul Allen estate. The other major tenant of the building was the major junior hockey franchise Portland Winterhawks of the Western Hockey League, which used to split its schedule with the Memorial Coliseum next door. In addition to the Blazers and Winterhawks, several other professional sports franchises, and the Portland State University men's basketball team, either currently play home games in Moda Center, or have done so in the past. In addition, Moda Center is a popular venue for concerts and other artistic productions.

Construction began in 1993, and the arena opened on October 12, 1995. The arena cost $262 million to build; construction was financed with funds obtained by a variety of sources, including the City of Portland, Allen's personal fortune, and $155 million in bonds issued by a consortium of mutual funds and insurance companies. These bonds would become the subject of an acrimonious 2004 bankruptcy in which the Oregon Arena Corporation, the holding company which owned the arena at the time, would forfeit title to the arena in lieu of repaying the bonds per the payment terms. Allen would later repurchase the arena from the creditors in 2007.

In 2009, the arena hosted first and second round games of the NCAA men's basketball tournament as well as in 2015 and 2022. It was the first time NCAA men's tournament games were played in the state of Oregon since 1983, though the arena did host the finals of the 2008 Big Sky Conference men's basketball tournament. The state had been under an NCAA-imposed tournament embargo due to sports betting being legal in the state (specifically, the Oregon Lottery's "Sports Action" game, a parlay game which allowed bettors to wager on NFL games), but was awarded 2009 tournament games when the state Legislature eliminated Sports Action from the lottery's lineup.
Last 10 Games
Date Opponents Result
Mar 17, 2012New Mexico @ Louisville #56 - 59
Mar 17, 2012VCU @ Indiana #61 - 63
Mar 15, 2012VCU @ Wichita State #62 - 59
Mar 15, 2012Long Beach State @ New Mexico #68 - 75
Mar 15, 2012Davidson @ Louisville #62 - 69
Mar 15, 2012New Mexico State @ Indiana #66 - 79
Nov 19, 2010Kentucky @ Portland 79 - 48
Mar 21, 2009Washington @ Purdue $74 - 76
Mar 21, 2009Western Kentucky @ Gonzaga #81 - 83
Mar 19, 2009Purdue @ Northern Iowa #56 - 61

# - 2011-12 NCAA Tournament
$ - 2008-09 NCAA Tournament