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The University of Evansville (UE) is a private university in Evansville, Indiana. It was founded in 1854 as Moores Hill College. The university operates a satellite center, Harlaxton College, in Grantham, England. UE offers more than 80 different majors and areas of study, each housed within three colleges and one school within the university ...
After several old buildings were torn down, the cornerstone of the 66,000-square-foot facility was laid May 9, 1916. Construction concluded in March 1917 and the Coliseum was formally dedicated April 18, 1917, right around the time the United States was joining World War I. The original construction cost $180,000. [2]
It is home to the Evansville Thunderbolts minor league hockey team in the SPHL and the Evansville Purple Aces men's basketball team, representing the University of Evansville. The UE women's basketball team also played at Ford Center from the venue's opening, but moved its home games back to its campus starting with the 2017–18 season.
It was the home of the University of Evansville's Purple Aces basketball program from its opening in 1956 until the Aces moved downtown into the new Ford Center in 2011. From 1957 to 1976, Roberts Stadium served as the host site for the NCAA College Division (now referred to as Division II) Men's Basketball National Championship . [ 3 ]
Since 2000, it has served as home of the Evansville Purple Aces men's and women's soccer teams. The stadium is named after Arad McCutchan, who was the basketball coach at the university for 31 years, [4] (1946–1977), achieving a record of 514–314. McCutchan is regarded as the most important person in the athletics history of the University. [5]
Liberty Arena, Home of the Screaming Eagles is a multi-purpose arena in Evansville, Indiana.It is the home arena of the Southern Indiana Screaming Eagles at the University of Southern Indiana.Seating 4,800 people for basketball games, It opened in 2019 (as the Screaming Eagles Arena) after being rebuilt from the previous much smaller Physical Activities Center or PAC Arena to better prepare ...
Evansville’s Joshua Hughes (11) and Murray State’s Sam Murray II (22) reach for the rebound as the University of Evansville Purple Aces play the Murray State Racers at Ford Center in ...
It is the home field of the Evansville Purple Aces baseball team of the Missouri Valley Conference (MVC). The stadium was opened in 1999 and named after Charles H. Braun, a businessman who played American football, basketball, and baseball for Evansville Memorial High School, a block away from UE's campus. Braun died in 1998.