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on the campus of

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. It was designed by Houston architect Willie C. Jordan Jr. and built in 1989 and is home to the Texas Southern University Tigers

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and

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teams. The arena played host to

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games during the 2017–18 season, as well as all

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home games in the same season, due to renovations of their arena, and hosted both teams for the first month of the 2018–19 season due to construction delays to the Cougars' home arena. Originally, the plan was to play most of the Cougars' men's conference games as well as a non-conference game against

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, with the remainder of the games at TSU. However, all of the games were eventually scheduled for H&PE Arena. H&PE Arena had previously hosted Houston's first-round game against

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in the

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due to the renovations at UH.Cougars Ready to Go in NIT First Round
''uhcougars.com'' The arena also hosted home games during the

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for the

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of the

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. The H&PE Arena hosted a Democratic presidential debate on September 12, 2019.

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