re: Ranking the SEC Basketball Arenas

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When it was built, designed, Coach McGuire insisted it have 12,501 seating capacity ... alterations had to me made. Why? Because he hated NC State so badly, and their arena held 12,500 .... ours had to be bigger.

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"The Basketball Palace of the South" ~ circa 1968

The Frank was the original "And 1" ...Big Frank wouldn't have had it any other way -