Venue: Allen County War Memorial Coliseum
Town: Fort Wayne, US
Capacity: 10,480

Allen County War Memorial Coliseum is a 13,000-seat multi-purpose arena located in Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States, near present-day Johnny Appleseed Park. It opened in 1952 with a construction cost of nearly $3 million. The Allen County War Memorial Coliseum was originally designed to seat 8,103 for hockey or 10,240 for basketball. Opened in 1989, the Coliseum's $26 million Exposition Center contains 108,000 square feet (10,000 m2) devoted to hosting substantial trade shows and other events with seating for 7,500. In 2002, an extensive $35 million renovation and expansion raised the Allen County War Memorial Coliseum's roof by 41 feet (12 m), thus increasing the arena's seating capacity to 10,500 for hockey or music concerts and 13,000 for basketball. The original structure was designed by A.M. Strauss Architects. The Allen County War Memorial Coliseum is the current home of the: Fort Wayne Derby Girls of the Women's Flat Track Derby Association Division 2 War Memorial Coliseum was known foremost as the home of the NBA's Fort Wayne Pistons for five seasons (1952-57) as well as the 1953 NBA All-Star Game and 1955 and 1956 NBA Finals. After the Pistons moved to Detroit in 1957, the facility continued to host at least one of their games every season from the 1958-59 to 1966-67 campaigns. Other pro basketball events there were the 1994 CBA All-Star Game and the 2014 and 2015 NBA D-League Finals. Memorial Coliseum was the site of several NCAA events, including the 2000, 2001 and 2002 Mid-Continent Conference men's basketball tournaments and the 1988, 1994 and 2000 NCAA Division I Final Four men's volleyball championships. More recently, the University of Notre Dame hosted the 2010 NCAA Division I men's ice hockey tournament Midwest Regional at Memorial Coliseum. The 2022 and 2023 NCAA Division III men's basketball championship also were held there. The arena has hosted college wrestling tournaments as well as the sectional, regional and semistate championships of the