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Full name | University Credit Union Center |
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Former names | Recreation Hall (1977–2004), Pavilion at the ARC (2004-2021) |
Location | 232 ARC, 1 Shields Avenue Davis, CA 95616 |
Coordinates | 38°32′30″N121°45′34″W / 38.54167°N 121.75944°W Coordinates: 38°32′30″N121°45′34″W / 38.54167°N 121.75944°W |
Owner | University of California, Davis |
Operator | University of California, Davis |
Capacity | 7,600 (5867 seated bleacher capacity, 2010 renovation; 6,003 for basketball and volleyball) |
Record attendance | 7,926 on January 23, 1999 for Men's Basketball |
Surface | Hardwood (Maple) |
Opened | 1977 |
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UC Davis Aggies men's basketball UC Davis Aggies women's basketball UC Davis Aggies women's volleyball UC Davis Aggies women's gymnastics |
The University Credit Union Center (previously known as Recreation Hall and The Pavilion at the ARC and commonly known as The Pavilion) is an 7,600-seat indoor multi-purpose stadium on the campus of the University of California, Davis in unincorporated Yolo County, California. [1]
Recreation Hall was opened in 1977 for intercollegiate athletics, as well as other large events such as intramural sports and public events. [2] The capacity of the University Credit Union Center for basketball is over 6,000 people and can provide 150,000 square feet (14,000 m2) of floorspace.
In Spring of 2004, UC Davis opened the Activities and Recreation Center (ARC). This structure served as a massive extension to the currently existing Pavilion. Since the two buildings have been fused into one massive complex, Recreation Hall's name was changed to The Pavilion at ARC upon the opening of the ARC in 2004. [3]
As of July 2021, the Pavilion is known as the University Credit Union Center for sponsorship reasons. As part of UC Davis' 10-year sponsorship agreement with University Credit Union, a Daktronics videoboard was added to provide game statistics and live replays for Aggie sporting events. [4]
The main tenants of The Pavilion are the UC Davis Aggies athletic programs. The UC Davis Aggies men's basketball, women's basketball, women's volleyball and women's gymnastics teams call The Pavilion home.
It was the home of the UC Davis Aggies wrestling team until the program was discontinued in 2010.
An annual "Break the Record Night" is held during each basketball season to attempt to break the prior attendance record for a basketball game. The current record of 7,926 was set on January 23, 1999, when UC Davis defeated Chico State 102–71. [5] Due to changes in seating configuration however, this record is no longer attainable. [6]
Former President Bill Clinton visited UC Davis to gain support for his wife Hillary Clinton's presidential nomination in 2008. Around 7,800 people were in attendance with a reported 3,500 more turned away at the door. [7]
World Wrestling Entertainment have also held shows at The Pavilion.
The University of California, Davis is a public land-grant research university near Davis, California. Named a Public Ivy, it is the northernmost of the ten campuses of the University of California system. The institution was first founded as an agricultural branch of the system in 1905 and became the seventh campus of the University of California in 1959.
The University of California Davis School of Medicine is the medical school of the University of California, Davis. Although the parent institution is near Davis, California, the medical school is in Sacramento, California.
UC Davis Medical Center is part of UC Davis Health and a major academic health center located in Sacramento, California. It is owned and operated by the University of California as part of its University of California, Davis campus. The medical center sits on a 142-acre (57 ha) campus located between the Elmhurst, Tahoe Park, and Oak Park residential neighborhoods. The site incorporates the land and some of the buildings of the former Sacramento Medical Center as well as much of the land previously occupied by the California State Fair until its 1967 move to a new location.
Robert Allen Williams is an American college basketball coach and the former head men's basketball coach at the UC Santa Barbara. He is sometimes referred to as the Dean of the Big West Conference's basketball coaches. He was previously the head coach at the UC Davis, winning the NCAA Men's Division II Basketball Championship in 1998. Williams is the all-time winningest coach at UC Santa Barbara with a 19-year record of 313–260.
The Causeway Classic is the annual college football game between the Sacramento State Hornets and the UC Davis Aggies in the United States. The teams exchange a Causeway Classic Trophy made from cement taken from the Yolo Causeway.
The UC Davis Aggies football team represents the University of California, Davis in NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS). The football program's first season took place in 1915, and has fielded a team each year since with the exception of 1918 during World War I and from 1943 to 1945 during World War II, when the campus, then known as the University Farm, was shut down. The team was known as the Cal Aggies or California Aggies from 1922 to 1958 when UC Davis was called the Northern Branch of the College of Agricultur.
The UC Davis Aggies are the athletic teams that represent the University of California, Davis.
Aggie Soccer Field, also known as Aggie Field, is a 1,000 seat soccer stadium on the campus of the University of California, Davis, adjacent to Davis, California.
The Anteater Recreation Center (ARC) is an 89,000-square-foot (8,300 m2) indoor gym facility that is part of campus recreation at the University of California, Irvine (UCI); the anteater is the mascot of the UC Irvine athletics team. It is open to all UCI students, faculty and staff members, alumni, and other university affiliates, including spouses.
For information on all UC Davis sports, see UC Davis Aggies
The 2013–14 UC Davis Aggies men's basketball team represented the University of California, Davis during the 2013-14 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Aggies, led by third year head coach Jim Les, played their home games at The Pavilion as members of the Big West Conference. They finished the season 9–22, 4–12 in Big West play to finish in last place. They failed to qualify for the Big West Conference Tournament.
The UC Davis Aggies women's basketball team represents the University of California, Davis in Davis, California, United States. The school's team currently competes in the Big West Conference.
The 2018 UC Davis football team represented the University of California, Davis as a member of the Big Sky Conference during the 2018 NCAA Division I FCS football season. Led by second-year head coach Dan Hawkins, the Aggies compiled an overall record of 10–3 with a mark of 7–1 in conference play, sharing the Big Sky titlewith Eastern Washington and Weber State. UC Davis received an at-large bid to the NCAA Division I Football Championship playoffs where, after a first round bye, they defeated Northern Iowa in the second round before losing in the quarterfinals to Eastern Washington. The Aggies played home games at Aggie Stadium in Davis, California.
The 2018–19 UC Davis Aggies men's basketball team represented the University of California, Davis in the 2018–19 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Aggies were led by eighth-year head coach Jim Les and competed at The Pavilion. UC Davis was a member of the Big West Conference, and participated in their 12th consecutive season in that league.
The 2019 UC Davis Aggies men's soccer team represented University of California, Davis during the 2019 NCAA Division I men's soccer season and the 2019 Big West Conference men's soccer season. The regular season began on August 30 and concluded on November 2. It was the program's 16th season fielding a Division I men's varsity soccer team, and their 13th season in the Big West. The 2019 season was Dwayne Shaffer's twenty-third year as head coach for the program.
The 2019–20 UC Davis Aggies men's basketball team represented the University of California, Davis in the 2019–20 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Aggies, led by ninth-year head coach Jim Les, played their home games at The Pavilion in Davis, California as members of the Big West Conference. They finished the season 14–18, 8–8 in Big West play to finish in a tie for fourth place. They were set to be the No. 5 seed in the Big West Tournament. However, the Big West Tournament was canceled amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
The 1998 NCAA Division II Men's Basketball Tournament was the 42nd annual single-elimination tournament to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division II college basketball in the United States.
The 2020–21 UC Davis Aggies men's basketball team represented the University of California, Davis in the 2020–21 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Aggies, led by Jim Les in his tenth season with the program, played their games at The Pavilion in Davis, California as members of the Big West Conference.
The 2021 UC Davis football team represented the University of California, Davis as a member of the Big Sky Conference during the 2021 NCAA Division I FCS football season. The season Led by fifth-year head coach Dan Hawkins, the Aggies compiled an overall record of 8–4 with a mark of 5–3 in conference play, tying for third place in the Big Sky. UC Davis received an at-large bid to the NCAA Division I Football Championship playoff, where they lost to South Dakota State in the first round. The Aggies played home games at UC Davis Health Stadium in Davis, California.
The 2021–22 UC Davis Aggies men's basketball team represented the University of California, Davis in the 2021–22 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Aggies, led by 10th-year head coach Jim Les, played their home games at the University Credit Union Center in Davis, California as members of the Big West Conference.