Kohl Center
Wisconsin Badgers ( WCHA hockey ) Wisconsin Badgers ( NCAA Basketball, Men and Women )
The Kohl Center is a multi-purpose hall in the city of Madison of the U.S. state of Wisconsin. The owner is the University of Wisconsin -Madison and is mainly used by the University of Wisconsin Badgers teams (basketball, men and women, and ice hockey). It provides a maximum of 17,230 seats.
History
Before the construction of the Kohl Center, the basketball teams played at the UW-Madison Wisconsin Field House opened in 1930, during the ice hockey team at the Dane County Coliseum was located. The construction of the new sports hall was supported by a donation from Senator Herb Kohl of Wisconsin, over 25 million U.S. dollars. Kohl, who studied at UW- Madison in 1956 and his Bachelor made and later the retailers Kohl's led thus made the single largest donation in the university's history.
On January 17, 1998, the inauguration of the Kohl Center. Since no money was planned for a new video cube in the Kohl Center; the old attachment from the Wisconsin Field House was installed. Only in 2005 was the construction of a new video scoreboard at the hall roof. At this time also a bar and restaurant on the lower tier and LED advertising boards were circulating added on top rank. 2006 aimed to set up a second athlete Academy center in the lower part of the hall.
In the foyer of the front entrance with a sculpture by glass artist Dale Chihuly is attached. The artwork is called Mendota Wall.
Events
Among the sporting events at the University, see, inter alia, Concerts, ice shows, career fairs, political gatherings and congresses. Annually, the Center Marching Band Concert band Varsity Spring Concert held in the coal.
On 12 February 2008 the then- senator from Illinois and presidential candidate Barack Obama at the Kohl Center was in front of about 18,400 spectators to guest.