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The Petersen Events Center is a 12,508-seat multi-purpose arena on the campus of the University of Pittsburgh in the Oakland neighborhood. The arena is named for philanthropists John Petersen and his
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The Petersen Events Center's plaza is also the site of one of the campus' Panther statues and the former site of Pitt Stadium.
The early minutes of a game against number one ranked UConn in 2009. A portion of the Oakland Zoo can be seen at the bottom. Pitt won the nationally televised game 70–60.
An inside view of the arena in November, 2019
Pitt Stadium
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Pitt Stadium was an outdoor athletic stadium in the eastern United States, located on the campus of the University of Pittsburgh in the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Opened in 1925
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…won the 2003 Innovative Architecture & Design Honor Award from Recreation Management magazine. The arena opened in 2002 on part of the former site of Pitt Stadium, which housed the university's football team from 1925 to 1999. The Pitt men's and women's basketball programs make their home here, having previously…
View from southwest corner in 1998
View of the stadium in 1925
Pitt Stadium at the University of Pittsburgh prior to its last game, 1999
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