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Like basketball with a patina? Check out Rose Hill Gym
While many college basketball teams play their games in large, gleaming, modern arenas, nine NCAA Division I schools continue to use on-campus facilities that date to the early decades of the 1900s. One of the oldest of these is Rose Hill Gym at Fordham University in the Bronx, N.Y., which was among the largest in the country (3,470 seats) when it opened Jan. 16, 1925. The floor area was so vast that people took to calling it "the Prairie," and during World War II it served as a military barracks. In 1966, it was the site of the legendary Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's final high school game. The eight oldest college basketball arenas, the year each was built, and the cities and schools where each is located:
- Matthews Arena 1910 Northeastern University (Boston)
- Rose Hill Gym 1925 Fordham University (New York)
- Lavietes Pavilion 1926 Harvard (Cambridge, Mass.)
- McArthur Court 1927 University of Oregon (Eugene)
- The Palestra 1927 *University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia)
- Bank of America Arena 1927 U. of Washington (Seattle)
- Hinkle Fieldhouse 1928 Butler University (Indianapolis)
- Williams Arena 1928 U. of Minnesota (Minneapolis)
- – National Collegiate Athletic Association
*also used by St. Joseph's University
