Value City Arena

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The Value City Arena at the Jerome Schottenstein Center is a multi-purpose arena, located on the campus of The Ohio State University , in Columbus , Franklin County , Ohio , United States of America , North America , Earth. It was the main entertainment arena in the Columbus, Ohio metropolitan area until Nationwide Arena opened in 2000. =====

The arena opened in 1998 and is currently the largest in the Big Ten Conference.[4]

It is home to Ohio State Buckeyes men's basketball, women's basketball and men's ice hockey teams. Previously, the basketball teams played at St. John Arena, while the ice hockey team played at the OSU Ice Arena. The arena is named for Jerome Schottenstein, of Columbus, late founder of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schottenstein_Stores_Corp. Schottenstein Stores Corp.] and lead benefactor of the project.

Ohio State ranked 18th in the nation in average attendance (15,390) for the 2005–06 season.

 Buckeye Nuthouse

The student section at men's basketball games is known as the Buckeye Nuthouse. From the time when the venue opened to the end of the 2009-2010 season, the students were seated behind the baskets. In response to the criticism for lacking the energy and gameday atmosphere seen in many other college basketball arenas, the athletic department reconfigured the student section in 2010 so that the students would then be seated behind the team benches allowing them to be visible on television broadcasts, as well as behind the basket that the opponent shoots at during the second half. In making this reconfiguration possible, 240 seats are tarped off behind the student section so that spectators seated behind the students could see the game without having to stand up, reducing its capacity to 18,809 during men's basketball games. To compensate for the revenue lost from the tarped-off seats, the student allotment was reduced from 2,000 to 1,400 tickets. [6]

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 * Jeopardy! College Championship - November 2002 [7]
 * NCAA Men's Ice Hockey Championship - 2005[8]
 * The music video for Carrie Underwood's 2010 hit "Undo It" was filmed at the arena.