Venue: Rupp Arena
Town: Lexington, US
Capacity: 23,500

Rupp Arena at Central Bank Center is an arena located in downtown Lexington, Kentucky, United States. It is part of Central Bank Center (formerly Lexington Center), a convention and shopping facility owned by an arm of the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government. It is located next to the Lexington Hyatt and Hilton hotels. Rupp Arena also serves as home court to the University of Kentucky men's basketball program, and is named after former Kentucky coach Adolph Rupp. It has an official capacity of 20,500 and also regularly hosts concerts, conventions and shows. The arena's primary tenant is the Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball team, with the Kentucky Wildcats women's basketball team hosting rivalry and power program opponent games at the venue in recent years. Rupp Arena was the host of the 1985 NCAA Final Four. It also formerly hosted the Kentucky Thoroughblades (currently the San Jose Barracuda) and the Lexington Men O' War minor-league hockey teams, the Lexington Horsemen arena football team, numerous concerts (theater capacity 2,300; concert hall capacity 10,000; arena capacity 20,500), conventions, and other events. The arena opened in 1976, a little more than a year before Rupp's death in late 1977. Since the 1985 Final Four, Rupp Arena has hosted a number of NCAA Tournament regional games, most recently in 2013 when it hosted second and third round NCAA Tournament games. Rupp Arena is also home to Kentucky's high school boys' basketball Sweet Sixteen, a single-elimination tournament which determines the state champion with sixteen teams representing each of Kentucky's regional high school champions. On January 27, 2020, it was announced that Lexington Center's overall naming rights were sold to Central Bank, a local community bank, by the Lexington Center Corporation and JMI Sports, which handles the multimedia rights for both the LCC and the University of Kentucky. The Rupp name will continue to receive primacy in the fourteen-year agreement for the aren