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19-551: T-Mobile Center (formerly Sprint Center ) is a multi-purpose arena in downtown Kansas City, Missouri , United States. It is located at the intersection of 14th Street and Grand Boulevard on the east side of the Power & Light District . It has effectively become the city's primary indoor arena, a role previously held by Kemper Arena , which had been built in 1974 a few miles away in the West Bottoms neighborhood. The arena

38-727: A 360-degree LED video screen. The arena seats over 19,000 people and has 72 suites. Connected to its north side is the College Basketball Experience , which includes the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame . In early 2006, Anschutz Entertainment Group selected Brenda Tinnen to serve as the facility's general manager. She had previously served as senior vice president of the Staples Center in Los Angeles, and

57-534: A location, often with the specific intent of comparing an idea to a sporting event. Such examples of these would be terms such as "the arena of war", "the arena of love" or "the political arena". Big 12 men%27s basketball tournament Between 2005 and 2019, no current Big 12 member besides Iowa State or Kansas won the tournament, and those two schools have won 18 of 27 titles. The remaining current Big 12 schools only account for six additional tournament titles. For its first twenty-three years, no school from outside

76-505: A roof. The key feature of an arena is that the event space is the lowest point, allowing maximum visibility. Arenas are usually designed to accommodate a multitude of spectators. The word derives from Latin harena , a particularly fine-grained sand that covered the floor of ancient arenas such as the Colosseum in Rome , Italy, to absorb blood. The term arena is sometimes used as

95-430: A synonym for a very large venue such as Pasadena's Rose Bowl , but such a facility is typically called a stadium . The use of one term over the other has mostly to do with the type of event. Football (be it association , rugby , gridiron , Australian rules , or Gaelic ) is typically played in a stadium, while basketball , volleyball , handball , and ice hockey are typically played in an arena, although many of

114-476: Is also the sport of indoor American football (one variant of which is explicitly known as arena football), a variant of the outdoor game that is designed for the usual smaller playing surface of most arenas; variants of other traditionally outdoor sports, including box lacrosse as well as futsal and indoor soccer , also exist. The term "arena" is also used loosely to refer to any event or type of event which either literally or metaphorically takes place in such

133-591: Is owned by the city of Kansas City, Missouri. The final design was selected in August 2005, from the Downtown Arena Design Team, which was a collaboration of the architectural firms Populous, 360 Architecture , Rafael Architects, and Ellerbe Becket . The construction manager was M.A. Mortenson Company , based in Minneapolis, Minnesota . Groundbreaking was on June 24, 2005, and construction

152-505: Is widely credited with the initial success of the venue and for attracting top tier concert tours. Garth Brooks personally thanked her from the stage for luring him out of semi-retirement to play nine consecutive sold-out shows within a month of the venue opening. She responded by unveiling a "Championship Banner" in the rafters, to commemorate his achievement. Sprint Center opened on October 10, 2007, inaugurated by an Elton John concert three days later. In April 2020, T-Mobile US became

171-702: The Big 12 men's basketball tournament in 2008 and in every year since 2010. It hosted the first and second rounds of the 2009 and 2013 NCAA men's tournaments , plus the regional rounds of the 2017 NCAA men's tournament and again in 2019 and 2023 . In 2010 and 2018 the Kansas City regional of the NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Tournament was held here. Additionally, the Kansas Jayhawks men's basketball team frequently plays regular season games at

190-810: The National Hockey League (NHL) and the National Basketball Association (NBA) about possible expansion or relocation of a professional hockey and/or basketball franchise for the arena; however, neither league has yet approved a team to play in T-Mobile Center (the arena and relocation of its franchise was used as leverage by the Pittsburgh Penguins in 2006 to get the current-day PPG Paints Arena in Pittsburgh built). The arena hosted

209-498: The 2,404 individual glass units on the main building were produced sequentially and completely assembled prior to shipping. The 5 million pounds of rebar was detailed, fabricated, and supplied by The Carter-Waters Corporation of Kansas City. The arena features a work of public art , The Moons, by Chris Doyle , commissioned by the Kansas City Municipal Arts Commission (KCMAC). The interior has

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228-615: The arena. The arena held Missouri's first UFC event for UFC on Fox: Johnson vs. Reis on April 15, 2017. On April 15, 2023, the UFC returned to the arena for UFC on ESPN: Holloway vs. Allen . It hosted the former Kansas City Command of the Arena Football League (AFL). The venue was a regular stop for the Professional Bull Riders (PBR)'s Premier Series for several years. Since 2022, it serves as

247-597: The championship was held in Oklahoma City, with the event returning to Kansas City from 2010 through 2020. On October 24, 2018, it was announced that the Big 12 Tournament would stay in Kansas City through 2024, and on June 12, 2020, it was announced that it would stay in Kansas City through 2025. Kansas has won the most Big 12 postseason titles as well, winning 12 out of 25, while appearing in 15 championship games. Numbers in parentheses refer to each team's finish/seed in

266-523: The home venue of the PBR's Kansas City Outlaws during the PBR Team Series season held in the summer and autumn. Arena An arena is a large enclosed platform, often circular or oval-shaped, designed to showcase theatre , musical performances , and/or sporting events . It is composed of a large open space surrounded on most or all sides by tiered seating for spectators, and may be covered by

285-588: The larger arenas hold more spectators than do the stadiums of smaller colleges or high schools. There are exceptions. The home of the Duke University men's and women's basketball teams would qualify as an arena, but the facility is called Cameron Indoor Stadium . Domed stadiums, which, like arenas, are enclosed but have the larger playing surfaces and seating capacities found in stadiums, are generally not referred to as arenas in North America. There

304-479: The naming rights partner by completing a merger with Sprint Corporation . On July 9, 2020, Sprint Center was officially renamed to T-Mobile Center. Changes include an entrance specifically for T-Mobile customers, a lounge with tables that can charge smartphones wirelessly, charging stations all over the arena, T-Mobile 5G coverage, and a monument outside saying "Heart KC". Since the arena's construction, various city officials of Kansas City have been in discussions with

323-594: The original Big Eight Conference had ever won the tournament. This streak ended when the Texas Longhorns won the championship game against Oklahoma State in 2021. The tournament is set to be held at the T-Mobile Center (formerly Sprint Center) in Kansas City, Missouri until 2031. The tournament has been held every year since the first full basketball season was completed in 1997. (The Big 12

342-735: Was completed on October 11, 2007, at US$ 276 million (equivalent to $ 406 million in 2023). The complete exterior glass façade system, all metal panels for the adjacent buildings and all accessory metal cladding, was custom designed, detailed, and supplied by Overgaard Ltd. Hong Kong to Architectural Wall Systems, the Des Moines, Iowa based glazing contractor who installed the building envelope. In total there are approximately 13,000 square meters (140,000 sq ft) of double insulated glass and 5,000 square meters (54,000 sq ft) of painted aluminum curtain wall panels. There are roughly 200 tons of system profiles and accessories. All of

361-734: Was formed in 1996) Since that time, it was held in Kemper Arena in Kansas City, Missouri in early March for every year up until 2003, and also in 2005. In 2003, 2004, and 2006 it was held at the American Airlines Center in Dallas, Texas , and in 2007 it was held in the Ford Center at Oklahoma City, Oklahoma . In 2008 it was again held in Kansas City, but this time at the Sprint Center . The 2009 edition of

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