Orleans Arena Information
The Orleans Arena is a 9,500 seat multi-purpose arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. It is home to the Las Vegas Wranglers ice hockey team, Las Vegas Sin lingerie football team and was the home of the Las Vegas Gladiators arena football team in 2007, and is also an occasional home for the UNLV Rebels basketball team when the Thomas & Mack Center is in use. It is located at the Orleans Hotel and Casino and is operated by Coast Casinos, a subsidiary of Boyd Gaming Corporation.
Notable events
- July 12, 2003-Ricardo Mayorga retained The Ring welterweight championship with a majority decision over Vernon Forrest, and Zab Judah defeated Demarcus Corley on the undercard.
- The First Las Vegas Wranglers game at the Orleans Arena was on October 21, 2003 in which a capacity crowd saw the Wranglers defeat the Bakersfield Condors 4-2.
- The Stanley Cup visited Orleans Arena on November 25, 2005.
- The arena was the site of the first ever NCAA tournament held in a venue connected to a casino with a sports book, the Las Vegas (College Basketball) Invitational from November 22–26, 2006 [1]. The 2009 West Coast Conference Championship Tournament would also take the same honor for a Division 1 conference tournament in March 2009. The venue also hosted the 2010 and 2011 tournaments and will do so again in 2012. In addition the Western Athletic Conference held its 2011 men's tourney at Orleans Arena and will do so again in 2012.
- In 2007, the Las Vegas Gladiators of the Arena Football League moved to the arena from the Thomas & Mack Center. The move failed to increase community interest and moved to Cleveland, Ohio, in 2008.
- On March 7, 2007, Mikey Way of My Chemical Romance got married to his fiancée Alicia Simmons in the backstage area.
- From February 26–28, 2009, the NIAA State Basketball Championship was held at the Orleans Arena. All classifications (1A-4A) attended and played at this venue.
- On November 26th, 2011, the UNLV men's basketball team upset number 1 ranked North Carolina at the arena.
References
- ^ Weatherford, Mike (February 10, 200). "The Orleans Optimistic About Arena". Las Vegas Review-Journal. http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=LVRB&p_theme=lvrb&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0FD394BBD19512B5&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM.
- ^ Kantowski, Ron. "Orleans Arena Could House Prep Title Games". Las Vegas Sun. http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2003/apr/01/columnist-ron-kantowski-orleans-arena-could-house-/.
- ^ http://www.orleansarena.com/arena-information/event-production
- ^ Consumer Price Index (estimate) 1800–2008. Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. Retrieved December 7, 2010.
- ^ http://www.tiberti.com/tib_construct/index.html
- ^ a b c d e "Event Production - Configurations". OrleansArena.com. http://www.orleansarena.com/arena-infomation/event-production. Retrieved March 25, 2008.
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