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Lakefront Arena

LAKEFRONT ARENA
Home to Privateers Men's & Women's Basketball

Opened: 1983
Capacity: 8,785
Website: http://arena.uno.edu/
Seating Chart: Available here.

Built for a cost of $38 million, Lakefront Arena opened its doors on Nov. 26, 1983, and has been the home of both Privateers men’s and women’s basketball for all but two of the past 32 seasons. In the past, the arena has also been the home venue for Privateers swimming and diving, as well as Privateers volleyball. Configured for Privateers basketball Lakefront Arena has 8,701 theatre-style seats, along with 84 chairback seats for the Courtside Krewe, for an official capacity of 8,785.

Following major damage from Hurricane Katrina in 2005, the arena reopened in 2008 after undergoing over $20 million dollars of renovations. The arena received state-of-the-art hurricane proof exterior paneling and roofing, along completely resurfaced exterior ramps. Improvements inside the arena, included brand new seats, a new basketball court, redone locker rooms, a multimedia room, brand new lighting and sound systems, and state of the art weight-rooms and training rooms for Privateers student-athletes.

Further improvements came during the summer of 2013 when high-definition videoboards in each endzone, along with LED ribbon board panels around the center ring of the arena were installed by Daktronics, enhancing the gameday experience for fans. Following the 2014 Sun Belt Tournament, brand new goals and shot clocks were installed as well.

Located just steps off the auxiliary gym the Ervin Johnson Strength & Conditioning Center provides an optimal opportunity for our basketball programs to maximize their workouts. Named after a former Privateer basketball great and first-round NBA Draft pick the weight room was fully renovated and reopened in the summer of 2018.

The 1,250-square-foot facility features three customized Sorinex lifting stations, free weights, dumb bells and individual machines.  A brand new Regupol Aktiv rubber flooring system with 3 inlaid lifting platforms was recently added to ensure an optimal experience for our student-athletes.

The arena is also home to the UNO Aquatic Center. Hosting high school, and other swim meets frequently, the Aquatic Center features an Olympic sized swimming pool, swimming locker rooms and a sauna. During the summer of 1997 a 50-meter swimming pool was added next to the arena which can be used by the general UNO population as well as for swim meets hosted by the Aquatic Center.

Lakefront Arena is not only a great athletic venue, but is regarded as one of the finest concert venues in the country. Lakefront Arena is routinely ranked as a Top Stop for a venue its size and as a university venue. Configured for concerts, Lakefront Arena can seat anywhere from 1,500 to over 10,000 with parking spots available to accommodate all patrons comfortably. Besides annually hosting popular events such as Disney on Ice, the arena has a long history of hosting major concerts with shows ranging from Madonna to Demi Lovato and James Taylor and even Pope John Paul II over the last 30-plus years. 

Coming into the 2021-22 athletic year, the men's program boasts an all-time record of 343-113 (.752) at Lakefront Arena while the women's program has had similar success with an all-time record of 328-128 (.719) at Lakefront Arena.