29-730: Honda Center (formerly known as the Arrowhead Pond of Anaheim ) is an indoor arena located in Anaheim, California . The arena is home to the Anaheim Ducks of the National Hockey League . Originally named the Anaheim Arena during construction, it was completed in 1993 at a cost of US$ 123 million. Arrowhead Water paid $ 15 million for the naming rights over 10 years in October 1993. In
58-553: A Ducks pre-season game against the Los Angeles Kings. In March 2020, the arena would lose all its scheduled events because of the COVID-19 pandemic . For the rest of the year, Honda Center would instead host charity events, such as blood drives , food bank distributions, and a collective wedding, along with serving as a drive-through voting location for the 2020 United States presidential election . The Ducks would only play again in
87-460: A location, often with the specific intent of comparing an idea to a sporting event. Such examples of these would be terms such as "the arena of war", "the arena of love" or "the political arena". 2001 NCAA Men%27s Division I Basketball Tournament The 2001 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament involved 65 schools playing in single-elimination play to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division I college basketball for
116-476: Is also the sport of indoor American football (one variant of which is explicitly known as arena football), a variant of the outdoor game that is designed for the usual smaller playing surface of most arenas; variants of other traditionally outdoor sports, including box lacrosse as well as futsal and indoor soccer , also exist. The term "arena" is also used loosely to refer to any event or type of event which either literally or metaphorically takes place in such
145-429: Is composed of a large open space surrounded on most or all sides by tiered seating for spectators, and may be covered by a roof. The key feature of an arena is that the event space is the lowest point, allowing maximum visibility. Arenas are usually designed to accommodate a multitude of spectators. The word derives from Latin harena , a particularly fine-grained sand that covered the floor of ancient arenas such as
174-595: The 2000–01 NCAA Division I men's basketball season . It began on March 13, 2001, with the play-in game , and ended with the championship game on April 2 in Minneapolis , at the Metrodome . A total of 64 games were played. This tournament is the first to feature 65 teams, due to the Mountain West Conference receiving an automatic bid for the first time. This meant that 31 conferences would have automatic bids to
203-598: The Arena Football League from 1996 to 1997. This arena has also hosted a PBR Bud Light Cup (later Built Ford Tough Series ) event annually since 1998. Since 1994, the arena has hosted the annual Wooden Legacy basketball tournament. In 2011, the arena began hosting the Big West Conference Men's and Women's Basketball tournaments. The arena has also hosted the NCAA men's basketball tournament seven times, as
232-619: The Colosseum in Rome , Italy, to absorb blood. The term arena is sometimes used as a synonym for a very large venue such as Pasadena's Rose Bowl , but such a facility is typically called a stadium . The use of one term over the other has mostly to do with the type of event. Football (be it association , rugby , gridiron , Australian rules , or Gaelic ) is typically played in a stadium, while basketball , volleyball , handball , and ice hockey are typically played in an arena, although many of
261-461: The Jim O’Brien scandal . Unlike forfeiture, a vacated game does not result in the other school being credited with a win, only with Ohio State removing the wins from its own record. This tournament featured many upsets in the first two rounds, with two #13 seeds and two #12 seeds winning in the first. The best remembered and most unexpected occurred when Hampton beat number 2 seed Iowa State 58–57 in
290-519: The 2001 NCAA field by virtue of winning their conference's tournament (except for the Ivy League and Pac-10, whose regular-season champions received their automatic bids). At Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome , Minneapolis, Minnesota Winner advances to 16th seed in Midwest Regional vs. (1) Illinois . # — Ohio State vacated all wins and its NCAA Tournament appearance from the 2000–01 season due to
319-511: The Ducks. It takes only five hours to convert Honda Center from a sporting arena to an 8,400-seat amphitheater. There are 84 luxury suites in the building, which has hosted 17.5 million people, as of 2003. In 2005, the arena became the first in the U.S. to have two full levels of 360° ribbon displays installed. Daktronics of Brookings, South Dakota , designed, manufactured and installed the 1,800 feet (550 m) of full-color LED technology. Outside
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#1732852519851348-597: The West Regional site – 1998 , 2001 , 2003 , 2008 , 2011 , 2014 , 2016 and 2019 . It even hosted the Frozen Four, the semifinals and final of the NCAA Men's Ice Hockey Championship , in 1999, underscoring the popularity of hockey in the region. On December 6, 2000, music legend Tina Turner played her last concert at the arena for the record breaking Twenty Four Seven Tour , but after popular demand, Turner returned to
377-644: The arena before a sellout crowd on October 14, 2008, for her Tina!: 50th Anniversary Tour . The Honda Center lies northeast across California State Route 57 from Angel Stadium (the home stadium of Major League Baseball 's Los Angeles Angels ) and roughly 3 miles (4.8 km) from Disneyland Park . It is also across the street from Anaheim Regional Transportation Intermodal Center with service by Amtrak ( Pacific Surfliner ), Metrolink ( Orange County Line ), Anaheim Resort Transit , Orange County Transportation Authority and private transportation companies. The arena seats up to 17,174 for its primary tenant,
406-569: The arena once the following NHL season started in January 2021, with a reduced audience of 2,000 being allowed to attend the final five games of the season, starting with an April 17 matchup with the Vegas Golden Knights . Honda Center has the second highest gross ticket sales from special events on the West Coast, following only Crypto.com Arena . These events have included the following over
435-495: The city's councilmen from the telephone directory to sell them his idea. They approved of the concept, and one year later following location surveys, the placement was chosen at a seven-acre parcel at Douglass Road and Katella Avenue, that at the time was owned by the German social group Phoenix Club. Papiano also managed to get financial backing from two New York-based firms, Ogden Corporation and Nederlander Organization . Even if there
464-450: The first round. The Pirates were down by as much as 11 in the game and outscored the Cyclones 10–0 in the final seven minutes of the game. Tarvis Williams made the winning shot with 6.9 seconds left. The video of Hampton coach Steve Merfield being lifted in the air by player David Johnson during the celebration has become a classic clip, often played by CBS and ESPN to showcase the excitement of
493-580: The franchise's first Stanley Cup championship. Honda Center has hosted several UFC events , starting with UFC 59 in 2006. It hosted the 2005 IBF World Championships for badminton in 2005. From 1994 to 1999, it served as a second home for the NBA 's Los Angeles Clippers . It was the home arena for the Anaheim Bullfrogs of Roller Hockey International from 1994 to 1999 and for the Anaheim Piranhas of
522-574: The larger arenas hold more spectators than do the stadiums of smaller colleges or high schools. There are exceptions. The home of the Duke University men's and women's basketball teams would qualify as an arena, but the facility is called Cameron Indoor Stadium . Domed stadiums, which, like arenas, are enclosed but have the larger playing surfaces and seating capacities found in stadiums, are generally not referred to as arenas in North America. There
551-560: The national championship in 1997. Duke defeated Arizona 82–72 in the national championship game to win their third national title and first since 1992. Shane Battier of Duke was named the tournament's Most Outstanding Player . The following are the sites that were selected to host each round of the 2001 tournament: Opening Round First and Second Rounds Regional semifinals and finals (Sweet Sixteen and Elite Eight) National semifinals and championship (Final Four and championship) The following teams were automatic qualifiers for
580-638: The short period of time after the Mighty Ducks franchise was awarded and before the naming rights deal with Arrowhead, Disney referred to the Arena as the Pond of Anaheim . In October 2006, Honda paid $ 60 million for the naming rights over 15 years, and renewed the deal for another decade in 2020. The idea for a large indoor arena in Anaheim emerged from entertainment attorney Neil Papiano , who in 1987 randomly selected two of
609-442: The tournament. The NCAA decided to maintain 34 at-large bids, which necessitated a play-in game between the #64 and #65 ranked teams, with the winner playing against a #1 seed in the first round. (Another option would have been to reduce the number of at-large bids to 33, which was the option chosen for the women's tournament.) This is also the first tournament to have been broadcast in high-definition , being broadcast on CBS . This
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#1732852519851638-505: The underdog in the NCAA tournament. Hampton became only the fourth #15 seed to win a game since the tournament expanded to 64 teams in 1985 and the first since 1997 . They went on to lose to Georgetown in the second round, failing to become the first seed that low to make the Round of 16. The Pirates were the last #15 seed to advance in the tournament until 2012 , in which two #15 seeds beat their #2-seeded opponents. 12-seed Gonzaga also made
667-421: The venue, the marquee was upgraded with two large video displays measuring 8 feet (2.4 m) high by 21 feet (6.4 m), and a new marquee was built with more LED video displays. Broadcom chairman Henry Samueli owns the company that operates the arena, Anaheim Arena Management, LLC, and the arena's primary tenant, the Ducks, giving him great flexibility in scheduling events and recruiting new tenants. AAM
696-699: The years: As part of the Walt Disney Company 's biennal D23 convention in 2024, the Disney Entertainment showcase, Disney Experiences showcase, and Disney Legends award ceremony were hosted at the Honda Center, with 12,000 fans in attendance. The arena will host indoor volleyball during the 2028 Summer Olympics . Indoor arena An arena is a large enclosed platform, often circular or oval-shaped, designed to showcase theatre , musical performances , and/or sporting events . It
725-654: Was a dispute to build an arena in Orange County with a Santa Ana project led by Spectacor , and there were discussions of feasibility of the arena given the National Basketball Association and National Hockey League were at the time unwilling to expand to the area, the city of Anaheim pushed forward to build the Hellmuth, Obata & Kassabaum, Inc. -designed arena, which broke ground in November 1990. A tenant
754-640: Was also the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim season opener on October 8, 1993, against the Detroit Red Wings , preceded by a 20-minute pregame show at the cost of $ 450,000. The Ducks lost 7–2. Since then, the arena has been host to a number of events, such as the 2003 and 2007 Stanley Cup Finals . On June 6, 2007, the Anaheim Ducks defeated the Ottawa Senators , 6–2, in game five of the Final at Honda Center to clinch
783-435: Was finally found in 1992, as The Walt Disney Company had just been awarded an NHL franchise for Anaheim, entering negotiations to lease the arena. Once the deal was broken, the arena's final cost ended at $ 121 million, as $ 18 million were added to finance hockey franchise fees and facility improvement. The arena opened on June 19, 1993, with a Barry Manilow concert as its first event. The then-Arrowhead Pond's first NHL game
812-466: Was founded in 2003 to take over operations of the arena from the bankrupt Ogden Corp., which had already sold the arena's concession deal to Aramark in 2000 - who remained providing foods and drinks until 2013, when concessions became an in-house operation. During the 2014–2015 NHL Season, it was announced that Honda Center would get a new scoreboard that will replace the one that was in place since its opening in 1993. The new scoreboard made its debut in
841-544: Was the last tournament where the first- and second-round sites were tied to specific regionals. The "pod system" was instituted for the 2002 tournament to keep as many teams as possible closer to their campus in the first two rounds. The Final Four consisted of Duke , making their second appearance in the Final Four in three years, Maryland , making their first appearance, Michigan State , the defending national champions, and Arizona , making their first appearance since winning
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