Venue: First Horizon Coliseum
Town: Greensboro, US

First Horizon Coliseum (formerly Greensboro Coliseum) is an arena in Greensboro, North Carolina. Opened in 1959 as the first building of the Greensboro Complex, the 22,000-seat arena is the home arena of the UNC Greensboro Spartans basketball team and the Greensboro Gargoyles of the ECHL. It has a history in hosting college basketball games, having been a recurring host of the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) basketball tournaments, and early-round games in the NCAA tournament. As it was the largest arena in the state for a period, the Coliseum previously hosted a number of neutral site games involving North Carolina's teams; Wake Forest regularly played marquee and ACC games at the Coliseum from 1959 to 1989. The arena was first proposed in 1944 by Greensboro mayor W.H. Sullivan to honor the soldiers who fought in World War I and World War II. The building was approved and venue construction commenced in 1958 and was finalized by September 1959 and opened one month later. Initially named the "Greensboro Memorial Coliseum" (a title it retained until 1980), the arena welcomed its first event on October 29, 1959. At its inception, the Coliseum had a seating capacity of 7,100, making it one of the largest arenas on the East Coast. In 1993 the arena was expanded to reach a capacity of 22,000, where the arena stands today. In October 2024, the arena announced a ten-year naming rights agreement with First Horizon Bank, under which it was renamed First Horizon Coliseum. Over the years, the Coliseum has been the site of numerous sporting events, particularly basketball. Additionally, it has hosted concerts for over four decades. During the 1960s and 1970s, the venue attracted rock and R&B artists, with The Monkees being the first major act to perform there. Elvis Presley held a concert on April 14, 1972, and footage from this event was featured in his last film, titled Elvis on Tour. Presley returned to the Coliseum for another concert on April 21, 1977, shortly before his d