Hulman Center is a 10,200-seat multi-purpose arena in Terre Haute, Indiana, USA. Initially named the Hulman Civic-University Center, the facility opened on December 14, 1973. Funded by donations and bond issues after an initial $2.5 million challenge gift from philanthropist Tony Hulman and the Hulman family, it is home to the Indiana State Sycamores basketball team. It has hosted many concerts (including Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, Johnny Carson, and John Denver), several NCAA championship events including an NCAA men's basketball tournament regional and the NCAA men's gymnastics finals, and the 1979 Missouri Valley Conference men's basketball tournament title game.
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“Whenever there’s a big war coming on, you should rope off a big field. And on the big day, you should take all the kings and their cabinets and their generals, put ‘em in the center dressed in their underpants and let them fight it out with clubs. The best country wins.”
—Maxwell Anderson (1888–1959)