Cintas Center
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| Location | 1624 Herald Avenue Cincinnati, OH 45207 |
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| Coordinates | 39°09′01″N 84°28′19″W / 39.150148°N 84.471881°WCoordinates: 39°09′01″N 84°28′19″W / 39.150148°N 84.471881°W |
| Owner | Xavier University |
| Operator | Xavier University |
| Capacity | 10,250 (Basketball) |
| Surface | Removable Basketball Floor; Concrete |
| Scoreboard | 10mm Mitsubishi DiamondVison & 16.5mm LSI/SACO |
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| Broke ground | February 26, 1998 |
| Opened | November 18, 2000 |
| Construction cost |
$46 million ($64 million in 2017 dollars) |
| Architect | NBBJ |
| Structural engineer | McNamara/Salvia, Inc. |
| General contractor | The Opus Group |
| Tenants | |
| Xavier Musketeers (Basketball & volleyball) |
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Cintas Center is a 10,250 seat multi-purpose arena and conference center at Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio. The arena officially opened in 2000 and was constructed through private donations as part of Xavier University's Century Campaign. It is home to the Xavier University Musketeers basketball and volleyball teams. It is named for the uniform company Cintas.
In the spring of 2009, Cintas Center was voted the 3rd "Toughest Place to Play" in a poll conducted by EA Sports.
Cintas Center hosted the Atlantic 10 (A10) Women's Basketball Championship in 2007 and 1st & 2nd Round games of the 2010 and 2011 NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Championship. Cintas Center also hosted the A10 Women's Volleyball Championship in 2010 and is a perennial site for OHSAA boys' basketball state tournament games. It has also hosted Cleveland Cavaliers games here since 2014.
On November 2, 2014, Xavier gave nearby Mount St. Joseph University free use of the arena for the school's women's basketball game with Hiram College. The game had been rescheduled, with NCAA approval, to allow terminally ill Mount St. Joseph player Lauren Hill to play in a college game. The game also served as a charity fundraiser for research into diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma, the brain cancer from which Hill was suffering. On April 13, 2015, the arena hosted a public memorial service for Hill following her death three days earlier. Later that year, the two schools launched the Lauren Hill Tipoff Classic, an annual season-opening event featuring both schools' women's teams, at the arena.
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