The move to renovate or replace North Carolina’s Smith Center isn’t a new initiative launched as other new arenas are being built, beautified or enhanced. Those talks began more than a decade ...

So what does the future hold for the “Dean Dome” and Tar Heels ... The 38-year-old Smith Center has 21,750 seats, which makes it the fourth-largest arena in college basketball behind ...

It was the first game in the brand-new Dean E. Smith Center ... The Smith Center doesn't have the same amenities as newer arenas with luxury seating, larger concourses and more bathrooms.

In addition to 3,000 student seats, that would allow for roughly ... “I love every day walking into this building and it says, ‘The Dean Smith Center.’ I love that.” ...

UNC-Chapel Hill could move the basketball arena to make way for future hospital expansion. Sorry, Dean — Smith Center joins rush to serve beer, wine © 2025 ...

The Dean E. Smith Center, which opened in 1986, is a big basketball house. Perhaps too big. Certainly aging. Among the plans being considered is building a new 16,000-seat arena that can be the ...

The Dean E. Smith Center, which opened in 1986, is a big basketball house. Perhaps too big. Certainly aging. Among the plans being considered is building a new 16,000-seat arena that can be the home ...