Moody Coliseum is an 8,998-seat multi-purpose arena in University Park, Texas, United States. The arena opened in 1956. It is home to the Southern Methodist University Mustangs basketball team. It was also home to the Dallas Chaparrals and Texas Chaparrals of the American Basketball Association before they moved to San Antonio, Texas as the San Antonio Spurs. It was also later a temporary home for the San Antonio Spurs.
Moody Coliseum has been the home of SMU basketball since December 3, 1956, when the Mustangs defeated McMurry, 113-36. Moody has hosted Mustang Volleyball since the program's inception in 1996.
It was also home to the Dallas Mavericks on April 26, 1984 for Game 5 of their Western Conference Quarterfinal series against the Seattle Supersonics, locally referred to as "Moody Madness". The Mavericks won the game in overtime by the score of 105-104.
Famous quotes containing the word moody:
“A moody child and wildly wise
Pursued the game with joyful eyes,
Which chose, like meteors, their way,
And rived the dark with private ray.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)