Cadence Bank Arena, formerly Tupelo Coliseum, BancorpSouth Center and BancorpSouth Arena is a 10,000-seat multi-purpose arena, near downtown Tupelo, Mississippi, named for the locally based Cadence Bank, a large multi-state commercial banking company.
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| Location | 375 East Main Street, Tupelo, Mississippi 38804 |
| Coordinates | 34°15′36″N 88°42′00″W / 34.260°N 88.700°W |
| Capacity | 10,000 |
| Field size | 32,000 sq ft (3,000 m2) without ice[1]
209.5 ft (63.9 m) total floor length with south risers extended* 234 ft (71 m) total floor space with south risers folded* 130 ft (40 m) total width* 70 ft (21 m) width seating* * (no ice) |
| Opened | October 9, 1993 |
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It was the home of the Tupelo FireAnts and Mississippi MudCats arena football and the Tupelo T-Rex ice hockey teams. It was also the home of the Mississippi Hound Dogs of the Ultimate Indoor Football League.
The $16 million, 32,000 sq ft (3,000 m2) facility was built in 1993, and is one of the more modern arenas serving a small market in the mid-south. Its lot was previously occupied by a shopping mall called Downtown Mall. When the mall closed in 1990 the arena was retrofitted from the old building.[2][3]
The arena also seats 8,000 for sports events, ranging from basketball to rodeos.
Notable events
editSports
edit- WCW Uncensored (1995)
- WCW Uncensored (1996),
- WCW Spring Stampede (1997),
- Gulf South Conference Basketball Tournament (2001-2005)
The arena has also hosted the Harlem Globetrotters on several occasions. One Memphis Pharaohs (Arena Football League) home game was held there in 1996.
Concerts
edit- Elton John
- Backstreet Boys
- Journey
- Toby Keith
- Brad Paisley
- Florida Georgia Line
- Kenny Chesney
- Aerosmith
- Tim McGraw
- Faith Hill
- Miranda Lambert
- Chris Young
- Lynyrd Skynyrd
- Rae Sremmurd
- Dwight Yoakum
- Reba McEntire
- Carrie Underwood
The arena can be scaled down to 4,500 for theater-style concerts. The arena is also used for trade shows and conventions (33,800 sq ft [3,140 m2]) of exhibit space plus 5,000 sq ft (460 m2) of meeting space).
On November 14, 2008, the arena hosted the Mississippi State Bulldogs club hockey team in a game against the Loyola University New Orleans club in the arena's first venture into ice hockey since the T-Rex left in 2003.
On November 21, 2010, the BancorpSouth Arena hosted a college basketball game featuring the Memphis Tigers and the LSU Tigers.
References
edit- ^ BancorpSouth Arena Online Archived 2007-10-21 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-09-10. Retrieved 2012-05-08.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ "Welcome to Fairpark District | Tupelo, Mississippi". Archived from the original on 2013-08-30. Retrieved 2013-06-25.
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