Value City Arena
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Value City Arena at the Jerome Schottenstein Center is a 19,200-seat multi-purpose arena located on the campus of The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio. The arena opened in 1998 and is part of the Jerome Schottenstein Center. It is home to the Ohio State Buckeyes basketball and men's ice hockey teams, in addition to live entertainment. Previously, the basketball teams played at St. John Arena while the ice hockey team played at the OSU Ice Arena. It is named for Value City department stores and Jerome Schottenstein of Columbus, late founder of Schottenstein Stores Corp. and lead benefactor of the project.
The arena seats 17,500 for hockey and up to 21,000 for concerts (20,500 for end-stage shows). VCA's seating capacity makes it one of the nation's premier college owned arenas and the largest in the Big Ten. In its eight years as home of Ohio State basketball over 2 million fans have attended games in the arena. Ohio State ranked 18th in the nation in average attendance (15,390) for the 2005-06 season. It hosted the 2005 NCAA Frozen Four.
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