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 ...

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.” ...

In 1986, UNC opened the Dean E. Smith Center, more popularly known as the DeanDome. It seats 21,750. In 2024, at 38, it’s apparently obsolete. Cameron Indoor Stadium was built in 1940 ...

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.

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — The University of North Carolina is moving closer to selecting Carolina North as the site for a new basketball arena to replace the Dean E. Smith Center, according to ...

The University of North Carolina is considering at least six options for replacing or renovating the Dean E. Smith ... Friday Center and Carolina North. All the plans can fit a 16,000-seat arena ...

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 ...