Venue: Lloyd Noble Center
Town: Oklahoma, US
Capacity: 12,000

The Lloyd Noble Center is a 10,967-seat multi-purpose arena located in Norman, Oklahoma, some 19 mi (31 km) south of downtown Oklahoma City. It opened in 1975 and is home to the University of Oklahoma men's and women's basketball and women's gymnastics teams of the Southeastern Conference. It also regularly hosts concerts, including city school orchestra concerts, and graduation ceremonies for colleges within the University of Oklahoma as well as those for several high schools in the area. Before the construction of the facility, the teams played in the much smaller OU Field House, now known as McCasland Field House, located on campus near Oklahoma Memorial Stadium. The success of Sooner basketball teams in the early 1970s including star forward Alvan Adams, motivated the building of a larger, state-of-the-art, arena, the Lloyd Noble Center (LNC), which was built in 1973-75 at a cost of $6 Million. The center is named after Samuel Lloyd Noble (1896-1950), a Houston oilman and philanthropist, and founder of the Noble Corporation and the Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation. Noble is an OU alumnus and former member of the OU Board of Regents; his foundation provided OU's first ever $1 million gift to finance the center. The Sooners frequently sold out the arena during the Coach Billy Tubbs era, with All-American forward Wayman Tisdale leading the high-scoring team to several Big Eight Conference titles and NCAA Tournament appearances. This led to the popular colloquialism around Norman that Lloyd Noble Center is "the house that Alvan built and Wayman filled." Other notable basketball stars who played at the LNC include Mookie Blaylock, Stacey King, Blake Griffin, Buddy Hield and Trae Young, all of whom also played in the NBA, as well as Stacey Dales, Courtney Paris and Danielle Robinson, who went on to play in the WNBA. The LNC has hosted NIT men's basketball games and NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament Opening Round games, NCAA Women's Gymnastics Regional and National Sem