Moby Arena is a 8,745-seat basketball

Basketball

Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...

 arena

Arena

An arena is an enclosed area, often circular or oval-shaped, designed to showcase theater, musical performances, or sporting events. It is composed of a large open space surrounded on most or all sides by tiered seating for spectators. The key feature of an arena is that the event space is the...

 in Fort Collins, Colorado

Fort Collins, Colorado

Fort Collins is a Home Rule Municipality situated on the Cache La Poudre River along the Colorado Front Range, and is the county seat and most populous city of Larimer County, Colorado, United States. Fort Collins is located north of the Colorado State Capitol in Denver. With a 2010 census...

. The arena, originally named Moby Gymnasium, was opened on January 27, 1966 with a victory over New Mexico State. The arena was built to replace South College Gymnasium, which was built in 1926 and seated 1,500 people.

Design

On the outside, the arena is a rounded rectangle over the indented lower level, with a hump-shaped roof arcing over the long sides of the building. Inside, the seating is much higher on the sidelines than in the endzones. However, the most recognizable features of the arena are the corner walls which divide the sidelines from the end zones, and feature large ram's horn patterns on each one, radiating out from the near corners. The basketball court floor also features the ram's horns pattern, created with the use of two different colors of hardwood (the horns use the darker shade). A video scoreboard hangs from the center of the rafters, and is surrounded by banners as well as retractable basketball hoops for use during practice.

Uses

The arena is home to the Colorado State University

Colorado State University

Colorado State University is a public research university located in Fort Collins, Colorado. The university is the state's land grant university, and the flagship university of the Colorado State University System.The enrollment is approximately 29,932 students, including resident and...

 Rams basketball and volleyball teams. In 1967, it hosted two first-round games for the West & Midwest regions, for that year's Men's Basketball Tournament

1967 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament

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. It also hosted the 1992 Western Athletic Conference

Western Athletic Conference

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 men's basketball tournament.

Moby Arena also hosts concerts. The Rolling Stones

The Rolling Stones

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 played the first show of their 1969 tour at the arena.
Other artists to have played here are: Big Head Todd and the Monsters

Big Head Todd and the Monsters

Big Head Todd & the Monsters is a rock band formed in 1986 in Colorado. The band has released a number of albums since 1989 with their 1993 album Sister Sweetly going platinum in the United States...

, Steve Miller Band

Steve Miller Band

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, O.A.R.

Of a Revolution

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, The Fray

The Fray (band)

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, Blind Melon

Blind Melon

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, Set Forth, Gov't Mule

Gov't Mule

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 and Ludacris

Ludacris

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. Lupe Fiasco

Lupe Fiasco

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 and Three 6 Mafia

Three 6 Mafia

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 played a controversial show at Moby Arena in which Lupe addressed the crowd multiple times as the "University of Colorado."

Parts of the 1977 film One on One

One on One (film)

One on One is a 1977 drama film starring Robby Benson and Annette O'Toole. It was written by Benson and Jerry Segal , and shot on location in 1976 at Colorado State University. The film features songs from Seals and Crofts and was directed by Lamont Johnson.-Plot:Henry Steele , a naive high school...

were filmed in Moby Arena.

Campus Crusade for Christ

Campus Crusade for Christ

Campus Crusade for Christ is an interdenominational Christian organization that promotes evangelism and discipleship in more than 190 countries...

hosts its U.S. staff conference every other year at CSU; main sessions are held inside Moby Arena.