Venue: Pinnacle Bank Arena
Address: 400 Pinnacle Arena Drive
Town: Lincoln, US
Capacity: 15,147

Pinnacle Bank Arena (PBA), known as West Haymarket Arena during construction, is a multi-purpose indoor arena located in the West Haymarket District of Lincoln, Nebraska, United States, just southwest of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's City Campus. The 15,500-seat arena was completed in 2013 and replaced the Bob Devaney Sports Center as the home of Nebraska's men's and women's basketball teams. The arena serves as the primary large-scale entertainment venue in Lincoln and annually hosts Nebraska School Activities Association state basketball tournament games. In its standard configuration, Pinnacle Bank Arena is the second-largest arena in the state of Nebraska and fifth-largest in the Big Ten Conference. The possibility of a new downtown arena to host Nebraska's basketball teams and serve as the anchor of a redevelopment of the Haymarket District was noted years prior to Pinnacle Bank Arena's September 2011 groundbreaking. The Pershing Center, then the largest entertainment venue in Lincoln, had a listed capacity of just 4,526 and was considered inadequate to meet the logistical demands of modern concerts. The larger but aging Bob Devaney Sports Center, home to Nebraska's indoor sports teams since 1976, was similarly incapable of hosting large-scale performances and required tens of millions of dollars of maintenance updates. In 2007, the City of Lincoln completed a study of five potential sites for a 12,000-seat, $50 million arena and identified its preferred location in the West Haymarket near the Lincoln Main Post Office, approximately a quarter-mile southwest of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's City Campus. The project's momentum slowed during the 2008 financial crisis, but reemerged on a larger scale when renderings of a $200 million to $300 million complex were released. The City of Lincoln established the West Haymarket Joint Public Agency (JPA) in conjunction with the University of Nebraska-Lincoln to control the financing of the proposed arena and