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50-736: The building opened in 1991 as a replacement for Woodling Gym and was known until 2005 as the CSU Convocation Center . It is named for Bert Wolstein , a Cleveland area real estate developer, former owner of the Force, and CSU alumnus, and his wife Iris. The main arena is known as Henry J. Goodman Arena , named for a businessman and former chairman of the CSU Board of Trustees. In its full configuration, it seats 13,610 for basketball, and with additional floor seating can hold 15,000 for concerts and professional wrestling . In addition to

100-726: A Democratic Party presidential debate between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama on February 26, 2008, at the Wolstein Center. The debate was broadcast live on MSNBC , and was moderated by Brian Williams with Tim Russert . The arena hosted the Kellogg's Tour of Gymnastics Champions in 2016 and the Hot Wheels Monster Trucks Live in 2019 and 2020. AJR headlined the arena on May 11, 2022, for their tour in support of their album " OK Orchestra ". On March 5, 2021, Ohio Governor Mike DeWine announced

150-525: A Division II school located in the Summit's headquarters city of Sioux Falls. Many of the school's boosters have ties to Sanford Health , a hospital company that has long been a major league sponsor and also owns the office complex that houses the league headquarters. The university announced on December 14 that it would start a transition to Division I, though stating at the time that no such move would take place until at least 2021. However, on May 22, 2020,

200-522: A baseball associate starting in the 2022 season (2021–22 school year), and Lindenwood and Southern Indiana became associates in men's soccer plus men's and women's swimming & diving in the 2022–23 school year. Eastern Illinois, Lindenwood, and Southern Indiana moved men's soccer to their primary home of the Ohio Valley Conference in 2023–24 while remaining Summit affiliates in swimming & diving. Western Illinois elected to leave

250-440: A guaranteed six regular-season men's basketball games on the network with an option of six more men's or women's basketball games during the season. For the 2024 tournament, CBS Sports Network will also broadcast the women's basketball tournament semifinal. In 2025 and 2026 there will remain an option to have the men's and women's tournaments semifinals on CBS Sports Network if scheduling allows. The Midco contract will now expand to

300-574: A live broadcast of their flagship program AEW Dynamite at the arena on January 29, 2020, in its Cleveland debut, and returned for their Beach Break event – which encompassed Dynamite and it's companion show Rampage – on January 26, 2022. Another Dynamite / Rampage broadcast and taping took place on August 24, 2022. A Halloween themed edition of Dynamite titled Fright Night Dynamite took place on October 30, 2024. World Championship Wrestling (WCW) also held numerous events (including episodes of their flagship show WCW Monday Nitro ) at

350-508: A school no longer a part of the Summit League. Future members in gray On August 10, 2023, the Summit League announced the signing of a new three-year media rights deal that would tie the league with CBS Sports Network and even closer ties with Midco Sports through the 2025–26 academic year. The new deal transfers the Summit League's men's/women's basketball championship game rights over to CBS Sports Network from ESPN , and adds

400-690: A sports venue in Ohio is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . The Summit League The Summit League , or The Summit , is an NCAA Division I intercollegiate athletic conference with its membership mostly located in the Midwestern United States , from Minnesota in the east, to the Dakotas, Nebraska and Colorado to the West, and Missouri and Oklahoma to the South. Founded as

450-568: A video board and auxiliary scoreboards facing the court. The Wolstein Center has also hosted numerous concerts, featuring artists such as David Bowie , Elton John , Martina McBride , TLC , Carrie Underwood , Justin Bieber , Janet Jackson , 311 , The Beastie Boys , The Cure , The Blue Man Group and Twenty One Pilots . The arena was site of the 1998 NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships and served as host for first and second-round games of

500-644: Is a gym on the campus of Cleveland State University in Cleveland , Ohio . It opened in 1973. One of its facilities is a 3,000 seat multi-purpose arena that was home to the Cleveland State Vikings basketball team until the Wolstein Center opened in 1991. It is named after former Fenn College and Cleveland State University coach and athletic director Homer E. Woodling . It was dedicated on October 20, 1973. This article about

550-531: Is an associate member for men's and women's swimming and diving and men's soccer. Drake and Illinois State became associate members in men's tennis starting in 2017–18, and former full member Valparaiso rejoined for men's swimming and men's tennis at the same time. Valparaiso dropped men's tennis after the 2019–20 season; it remained a swimming associate until moving that sport to the Mid-American Conference in 2021. Northern Colorado became

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600-552: The 2000 and 2005 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournaments as well as the 2019 NCAA Fencing Championships . Construction on the Wolstein Center began in August 1989 in the aftermath of the team's run to the Sweet Sixteen in the 1986 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament . Prior to its opening, the team played at Woodling Gym on campus or (for higher profile games) at the 10,000-seat Public Auditorium . The arena

650-670: The 2022 NBA All-Star Game at Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse . As part of the All-Star Weekend events, the All-Star Celebrity Game was held at the Wolstein Center on February 18, 2022. The Wolstein Center also hosted multiple professional wrestling events from numerous companies, including WWE 's Monday Night Raw on January 26, 2009, and Friday Night SmackDown on December 28, 2010. TNA Wrestling 's weekly Impact program taped two weeks worth of shows on August 29, 2013. All Elite Wrestling (AEW) did

700-772: The Association of Mid-Continent Universities in 1982, it rebranded as the Mid-Continent Conference in 1989, then again as the Summit League on June 1, 2007. The league headquarters are in Sioux Falls, South Dakota . The membership currently consists of nine full members plus seven associate members. The most recent change in the core conference membership is the 2021 arrival of the University of St. Thomas , which began an unprecedented transition from NCAA Division III to Division I. A year earlier,

750-853: The Gateway Conference , merged into the Missouri Valley Conference. The University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee joined the Mid-Continent a year later. In 1994, charter members Cleveland State, UIC and Green Bay, as well as newer members Wisconsin–Milwaukee, Northern Illinois, and Wright State left the conference to join the Midwestern Collegiate Conference, now known as the Horizon League . The Mid-Continent absorbed Central Connecticut State University , Chicago State University ,

800-742: The Ohio Valley Conference (OVC), which at the time did not sponsor any of these schools' Summit League sports, in July 2022. Southern Indiana started its swimming & diving program for both sexes in 2022–23. In late March 2023, the OVC announced that it would begin sponsoring men's soccer that fall, leading to Eastern Illinois , Lindenwood, and Southern Indiana moving that sport to their full-time home. Eastern Illinois and Southern Indiana remain swimming & diving affiliates, while Lindenwood dropped both of its swimming & diving programs after

850-643: The Trans America Athletic Conference while Central Connecticut joined the Northeast Conference in 1997. Buffalo joined the MAC in 1998 while Northeastern Illinois ceased intercollegiate athletics at that time. Oral Roberts University and Southern Utah University replaced the former pair while Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI; its athletic program is now IU Indy) and Oakland University moved into

900-525: The University at Buffalo , Troy State University (now Troy University ), and Northeastern Illinois University from the collapsed East Coast Conference in response. None of these institutions remain in the league. Missouri-Kansas City , formerly an independent, also joined the Mid-Continent Conference in 1994. Eastern Illinois moved to the Ohio Valley Conference in 1996, reducing membership to nine programs. Troy State departed for

950-542: The University of Missouri–Kansas City returned as a full member after a seven-year absence with the new athletic identity of the Kansas City Roos, while Purdue University Fort Wayne left for the Horizon League . A total of 32 schools have been full members; the last charter member remaining in the league, Western Illinois University , left for the Ohio Valley Conference on July 1, 2023 in most sports, with men's soccer playing one more season before leaving at

1000-491: The 1979 season, while Northern Michigan and Youngstown State left the following year; they were replaced by Southwest Missouri State (now known as Missouri State University ) in 1981. The 1981 season also saw the conference as a whole move from Division II to Division I-AA; this would be the conference's final season under the name of the Mid-Continent Athletic Association. The new association

1050-455: The 2023–24 season. In early May 2023, it was announced that founding member Western Illinois would be leaving the Summit League in all sports and would join the Ohio Valley Conference beginning in fall 2023. In mid-June, Western Illinois announced that its men's soccer team would remain in the Summit League for the fall 2023 season, and depart for the OVC after that. On April 4, 2024, both entities announced that Delaware would be joining

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1100-442: The 2024–25 season. While a rumored "impending demolition" of the Wolstein Center as part of Cleveland State University's 2022 master plan was mentioned as a reason for the move to Public Auditorium, Cleveland State University stated that there are no immediate plans regarding the arena's future. Both the 1992 Mid-Continent Conference men's basketball tournament and the 2002 Horizon League men's basketball tournament were held at

1150-771: The Division I-AA level, now under the new AMCU name, from 1982 until 1984, when the football sponsoring members of the Missouri Valley Conference joined with the football sponsoring members of the AMCU to form the beginnings of what is now the Missouri Valley Football Conference ; current members North Dakota , North Dakota State , South Dakota , and South Dakota State continue to house their FCS football programs there to this day. The conference saw its first changes in

1200-670: The Horizon League. Eight of the nine then-current Horizon League programs were former Summit League members with Oakland's move (the Horizon has since added two more members that were never in The Summit League, Northern Kentucky and Robert Morris , as well as another former Summit member in Purdue Fort Wayne). In December 2013, The Summit League office announced that Oral Roberts University returned to

1250-441: The Mid-Continent Conference annual Presidents Council meeting in 2006, and Indiana University–Purdue University Fort Wayne (IPFW, now Purdue Fort Wayne), North Dakota State , and South Dakota State were approved for site visits. On August 30, 2006, IPFW accepted an invitation to join the Mid-Continent Conference as a full member starting July 1, 2007. Both North Dakota State and South Dakota State also accepted invitations to join

1300-475: The Mid-Continent added women's sports by absorbing the North Star Conference (NSC), a women's-only league whose final seven members were in the Mid-Continent. All of the final NSC members except for Akron moved their women's sports into the Mid-Continent. At the same time, Eastern Illinois and Western Illinois moved their women's sports into the Mid-Continent when their former women's sports home,

1350-451: The Summit League commissioner, Tom Douple, informed Augustana president Stephanie Herseth Sandlin that the conference would not be adding more new teams "at this time." The conference expanded anyway, announcing in June 2019 that UMKC would return in 2020 after a seven-year absence. However, shortly thereafter, Purdue Fort Wayne announced its 2020 departure for the Horizon League, maintaining

1400-623: The Summit League, but controversy over the Fighting Sioux nickname in all likelihood prevented UND's admission at that time. Expectations that UND would join the Summit League came to an end on November 1, 2010, when North Dakota instead accepted an invitation to join the Big Sky Conference. The University of South Dakota entered into very brief negotiations to join the Big Sky as well, rather than continuing their plans to join

1450-447: The Summit. However, South Dakota chose instead to remain with the more compact Summit League (along with other Dakota schools, NDSU and SDSU). As the University of Nebraska Omaha began the transition to Division I athletics in all sports, it joined the Summit League on July 1, 2012. With the departures of Centenary to Division III at the end of the 2010–11 athletic year, and Southern Utah and Oral Roberts for other Division I conferences at

1500-491: The Wolstein Center would host Ohio's first mass COVID-19 vaccination center , which ran from March 17 - June 7, 2021. Since 2015, the Wolstein Center has been managed in partnership with Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse . The Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse staff works as a consultant to assist in promoting and booking events at both venues, while in return, select Vikings men's basketball games are played at Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse each season. Woodling Gym Woodling Gymnasium

1550-556: The Wolstein Center, then called the CSU Convocation Center, as well as being the site for first and second-round games of the NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament , in 2000 and 2005 . In the 2005 tournament, the 12th-seeded Milwaukee Panthers and 7th-seeded West Virginia Mountaineers won both of their respective games played at the Wolstein Center to advance to the Sweet Sixteen. Cleveland hosted

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1600-407: The arena is curtained off. For many games only lower-level seating is available and upper-level seating sections are covered with tarps, further reducing available seating. The area behind the curtain is used for a variety of other purposes, including a "Kids Fun Zone" children's play area during games. The curtain itself was adorned with a large American flag for several years and since 2023 features

1650-745: The arena was home to the Cleveland Charge , the NBA G League affiliate of the Cleveland Cavaliers . The team, previously located in Canton, Ohio , as the Canton Charge, announced the move to Cleveland on June 9, 2021, and began play at the Wolstein Center in the 2021–22 season. The team announced a six-year agreement with the city of Cleveland in June 2024 to move home games to Public Auditorium in downtown Cleveland beginning with

1700-410: The arena, the Wolstein Center also has a practice gym and grand ballroom. It is the largest basketball arena in the Horizon League and the second-largest college basketball arena in Ohio by total seating capacity. In recent years, Cleveland State has downsized capacity for basketball to 8,500 for most Vikings games. The basketball floor is placed closer to the eastern baseline, and the western third of

1750-477: The building is named after Bert and Iris Wolstein, who donated $ 6.5 million towards the building's construction, the largest philanthropic gift in CSU history. The building also contains a practice gym, a 23,744 square feet (2,205.9 m) grand ballroom, six-room conference center, and eight concession stands. In the arena, there is a 100-seat party loge located above the seating in the west baseline. From 2021 to 2024,

1800-496: The center until WCW's folding in 2001. On February 26, 2015, Barry Manilow performed at the Wolstein Center during his "One Last Time! Tour." The 1998 NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships were held in the arena, won by the Iowa Hawkeyes . The Professional Bull Riders Bud Light Cup tour hosted a bull riding event at the Wolstein Center, then known as the CSU Convocation Center, in 2000 and 2001. NBC News held

1850-690: The conclusion of the fall 2023 season. The conference can trace its roots back to 1978, when the Mid-Continent Athletic Association was founded as a football-only conference playing in Division II at the time. Its inaugural members were the University of Akron , Eastern Illinois University , University of Northern Iowa , Northern Michigan University , Western Illinois University , and Youngstown State University ; Wayne State University had also expressed interest in joining, but ultimately never did. Akron left after

1900-847: The conference as an associate member in men's soccer starting in 2025. On May 7, 2024, the league announced that Northern Colorado , who is also an affiliate in baseball, and Weber State would be joining the league for men's golf starting in the fall of 2024. ( Evangelical ) ( Catholic ) All institutional names and nicknames used reflect those in the final school year of conference membership. The Summit League has 23 former members. ( UMC ) ( Lutheran ) Full members Full members (non-football) Associate members (football only) Associate member (baseball, men's soccer, softball, swimming and diving, or men's tennis) Other Conference Other Conference The Summit League sponsors championship competition in nine men's and ten women's NCAA sanctioned sports. Former full member Eastern Illinois

1950-515: The conference in all sports, effective July 1, 2014. The next changes to the conference's core membership were announced in 2017. First, on January 26, North Dakota, which had resolved its controversy by selecting the new nickname Fighting Hawks, unveiled as a new member beginning in 2018. Then, on June 28, IUPUI announced it would leave the conference to join the Horizon League effective July 1, 2017. For much of 2018, speculation involving further league expansion focused on Augustana University ,

2000-473: The conference the next day. The Summit League continued its renewed expansion push with the admission of the University of South Dakota . The Coyotes began conference play in the 2011–12 academic year and become eligible for all championships the following season. Centenary College subsequently announced that it would leave the Summit League following the 2010–2011 campaign. The University of North Dakota had also been openly rumored to have been courted by

2050-446: The creation of a new all-league media platform called The Summit League Network . It will provide access to all nine member institutions' live streams of every home game, both non-conference and in-conference, as well as interviews and other league info. This expansion will preserve the local media rights given out at select institutions, as the provider for the university will supply Midco with that broadcast/live stream to be simulcast on

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2100-536: The early 1990s. Southwest Missouri State departed for membership in the Missouri Valley Conference as the University of Akron and Northern Illinois University joined in 1990. Then Wright State University joined in 1991 as Northern Iowa followed Southwest Missouri State to the MVC. Major changes came to the conference in 1992. First, Akron left for the Mid-American Conference (MAC) and another Ohio school, Youngstown State University , replaced it. More significantly,

2150-531: The end of the 2011–12 athletic year, the Summit League continued with nine institutions, all within the Midwest geographical region. The conference unveiled the University of Denver (DU) as its tenth member on November 27, 2012, and the Pioneers joined in July 2013. While Denver is slightly outside The Summit's current Midwestern base, the city's status as a major air hub seemingly minimized travel issues for

2200-632: The full-time conference membership at nine schools. Then, on October 4, 2019, the University of St. Thomas , a Minnesota school that was set to be expelled from its longtime athletic home of the NCAA Division III Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (MIAC) in 2021, announced that it received an invitation to join the Summit upon its MIAC departure. St. Thomas eventually received a waiver of an NCAA rule mandating that Division III schools can only transition to Division II, allowing

2250-419: The latter duo's spots a year later. Youngstown State switched to the Horizon League in 2001, and Centenary College replaced it in 2003. Chicago State University announced in the spring of 2006 that it would withdraw from the conference to compete as an independent starting in the 2006–07 school year. Charter member Valparaiso then moved to the Horizon in 2007. Conference expansion was discussed at length at

2300-433: The league full time in 2023, but its men's soccer team remained in the Summit through the fall 2023 season. Men's varsity sports not sponsored by The Summit League which are played by member schools: Women's varsity sports not sponsored by the Summit League which are played by member schools: * At-large bid ** First Four game Italics indicate a school no longer a part of the Summit League. Italics indicate

2350-448: The other members. With Denver among the eight of ten WAC members switching to other conferences, that league searched for new members. UMKC announced on February 7, 2013, that it would be one of six schools joining the WAC for the 2013–14 season, dropping the Summit league back to nine member schools. Membership fell to eight schools on May 7, 2013, when Oakland announced that it was joining

2400-586: The school to move directly to D-I on the originally announced schedule. Shortly before St. Thomas' future conference membership was confirmed, the University of Northern Colorado was announced as a baseball-only member effective in 2021–22. The most recent change to the affiliate membership was announced on May 11, 2022, when Lindenwood University and the University of Southern Indiana were announced as new affiliates in men's soccer plus men's and women's swimming & diving effective in 2022–23. Both institutions began transitions from Division II as new members of

2450-506: Was completed on November 1, 1991, at a cost of $ 55 million. The 13,610 seats made the Wolstein Center the largest arena in downtown Cleveland until the opening of Gund Arena in 1994, and it was the largest university -owned arena in Ohio until 1998 when Value City Arena opened at Ohio State University . The main arena is named Goodman Arena after Henry J. Goodman, former chairman of the Cleveland State board of trustees, while

2500-677: Was officially created on June 18, 1982, at the O'Hare Hilton Hotel in Chicago, Illinois as the Association of Mid-Continent Universities (or AMCU or AMCU-8 , pronounced Am-cue), which it was known as until 1989. Covering all men's sports now in addition to football, the new conference consisted of current MCAA members Northern Iowa, Eastern Illinois, Western Illinois, and Southwest Missouri State, along with non-football sponsoring Cleveland State University , University of Illinois Chicago , University of Wisconsin–Green Bay and Valparaiso University . The conference continued to sponsor football at

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