Alaska Airlines Arena at Hec Edmundson Pavilion - Milestones

Milestones

• Hec Ed has hosted the NCAA basketball Final Four twice, in 1949 and 1952.
• The overall attendance record for the building is 12,961, set during the semi-finals of the 1957 high school state basketball tournament.
  Hec Ed hosted the state tournament for over fifty years.
• Arguably the biggest game in the building since its renovation occurred on March 6, 2004, when the UW men's basketball team hosted top-ranked and then-undefeated Stanford on national television, a game which the Huskies won 75-62.
• On May 21, 1974, the pioneering jam band Grateful Dead performed to a sold-out audience in the arena, playing the longest ever recorded version of "Playing in the Band".