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The Bob Devaney Sports Center is a sports complex on the campus of the University of Nebraska in Lincoln, Nebraska
Lincoln, Nebraska

The City of Lincoln is the Capital and the Nebraska#Important cities and towns of the United States U.S. state of Nebraska. Lincoln is also the county seat of Lancaster County, Nebraska and the home of the University of Nebraska....
 that includes a 13,595-seat multi-purpose arena
Arena

An arena is an enclosed area, often circular or oval-shaped, designed to showcase theater, musical performances, or sporting events. It is composed of a large open space surrounded on most or all sides by tiered seating for spectators....
, a 1,000-seat covered 25-yard swimming
Swimming

Swimming is the movement by humans or animals through water, usually without artificial assistance. Swimming is an activity that can be both useful and recreational....
 and diving
Diving

Diving refers to the sport of performing acrobatics while jumping or falling into water from a platform or springboard of a certain height. Diving is an internationally-recognized sport that is part of the Olympic Games....
 facility (Devaney Center Natatorium) and a 5,000-seat covered track and field (athletics
Athletics (track and field)

Track and field athletics, commonly known as athletics or track and field, is a collection of sports events that involve running, throwing and jumping....
) facility (Devaney Sports Center Indoor Track) that features a 200-meter hydraulic-banked track, one of only 3 in the United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 and 7 in the world.






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The Bob Devaney Sports Center is a sports complex on the campus of the University of Nebraska in Lincoln, Nebraska
Lincoln, Nebraska

The City of Lincoln is the Capital and the Nebraska#Important cities and towns of the United States U.S. state of Nebraska. Lincoln is also the county seat of Lancaster County, Nebraska and the home of the University of Nebraska....
 that includes a 13,595-seat multi-purpose arena
Arena

An arena is an enclosed area, often circular or oval-shaped, designed to showcase theater, musical performances, or sporting events. It is composed of a large open space surrounded on most or all sides by tiered seating for spectators....
, a 1,000-seat covered 25-yard swimming
Swimming

Swimming is the movement by humans or animals through water, usually without artificial assistance. Swimming is an activity that can be both useful and recreational....
 and diving
Diving

Diving refers to the sport of performing acrobatics while jumping or falling into water from a platform or springboard of a certain height. Diving is an internationally-recognized sport that is part of the Olympic Games....
 facility (Devaney Center Natatorium) and a 5,000-seat covered track and field (athletics
Athletics (track and field)

Track and field athletics, commonly known as athletics or track and field, is a collection of sports events that involve running, throwing and jumping....
) facility (Devaney Sports Center Indoor Track) that features a 200-meter hydraulic-banked track, one of only 3 in the United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 and 7 in the world. The arena opened in 1976 and is named after former Nebraska football coach and athletic director Bob Devaney
Bob Devaney

Robert S. "Bob" Devaney was a college football head coach, most notably for the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Nebraska Cornhuskers.He graduated from Alma College, where he played end on the football team, in 1939....
. It is home to the Cornhuskers basketball
Basketball

Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five active players each try to score points against one another by propelling a basketball through a 10 feet  high hoop under organized rules....
, gymnastics
Gymnastics

Gymnastics is a sport involving performance of exercises requiring physical strength, flexibility, agility and coordination. Artistic Gymnastics is the best known and most popular of the gymnastics sports governed by the F?d?ration Internationale de Gymnastique ....
, indoor track and field and swimming
Swimming

Swimming is the movement by humans or animals through water, usually without artificial assistance. Swimming is an activity that can be both useful and recreational....
 and diving
Diving

Diving refers to the sport of performing acrobatics while jumping or falling into water from a platform or springboard of a certain height. Diving is an internationally-recognized sport that is part of the Olympic Games....
 teams. The building replaced the Nebraska Coliseum
Nebraska Coliseum

The University of Nebraska Coliseum , the home of Nebraska Cornhuskers volleyball, is an on-campus arena at the University of Nebraska?Lincoln in Lincoln, Nebraska, Nebraska in the United States....
, the current home of the volleyball
Volleyball

Volleyball is an Olympic Games team sport in which two teams of 6 active players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules....
 and wrestling
Collegiate wrestling

Collegiate wrestling is the style of amateur wrestling practiced at the college and university level in the United States. Collegiate wrestling is sometimes known as folkstyle wrestling because by and large, it is the style that emerged out of the folk wrestling styles practiced in the early history of the United States....
 teams.

It hosted the 1980, 1984 and 1988 men's NCAA basketball tournament
NCAA Basketball Tournament

There are six main National Collegiate Athletic Association basketball tournaments.*NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship*NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Championship...
 Midwest first- and second-round games, and the 1993 women's NCAA tournament first round. In the arena's first thirty years, the men's basketball team has never had a losing home schedule.

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  • - multi-purpose 13,595-seat arena from the NU men's basketball program viewpoint
  • - same as above, from the NU women's basketball program viewpoint
  • - indoor swimming and diving facility
  • - indoor track and field (athletics) facility