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. It is home to the

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Maroon Tigers

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. It also hosted

preliminary matches during the

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and was the home arena to the

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. It was opened in 1996 at a cost of $8 million. It sits adjacent to the college's old gym, Archer Hall, which seats 1,000. The arena was named after

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, an athletic director at

and the school's first basketball coach.

References

1996 Summer Olympics official report.
Volume 1. p. 542.
1996 Summer Olympics official report.
Volume 3. p. 451. ;Notes Venues of the 1996 Summer Olympics Sports venues in Atlanta Indoor arenas in Georgia (U.S. state) College basketball venues in the United States Morehouse College Olympic basketball venues Sports venues completed in 1996 {{Summer-Olympic-venue-stub