Championship performances in Gampel Pavilion are nothing new to UConn Nation. But thanks to new upgrades being planned, the athletic venue is also stepping up its game to significantly improve the fan experience.<\/p>\n
UConn\u2019s Board of Trustees on Wednesday approved a project<\/a> that includes replacing and enhancing the venue\u2019s videoboard system, upgrading the show lighting, and replacing the retractable seating system in the pavilion\u2019s lower bowl.<\/p>\n In addition to being the home of the championship men\u2019s and women\u2019s basketball programs, Gampel also hosts Commencement ceremonies, orientation programs, career fairs, and many other events each year that will benefit from the improvements.<\/p>\n The project includes replacing the existing videoboard system, originally installed in 2009, with state-of-the-art displays as well as upgraded show lighting to add to the overall fan experience.<\/p>\n The work also involves replacing the lower bowl\u2019s retractable seating system, which dates to the opening of the facility and can be configured to provide additional floor space depending on specific event needs.<\/p>\n Some portions of the work are planned to take place this summer, with other portions to be undertaken in summer 2025.<\/p>\n UConn has implemented many projects over the years to modernize Gampel Pavilion, which first opened in January 1990 and is a storied centerpiece<\/a> of the \u201cBasketball Capital of the World\u201d at Storrs.<\/p>\n The wood court was replaced<\/a> last year, and other work has been done over the past several years that included replacing the roof and interior dome panels<\/a> in 2017, installing a new audio system<\/a> in 2020, improving Wi-Fi connectivity<\/a> in 2019, adding more seats while updating locker rooms and office spaces in 2002<\/a>, and other projects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The centerpiece of the Basketball Capital of the World first opened its doors in 1990 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":206690,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1712,1727,99,2235,2225,2234,2233],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[1932],"class_list":["post-212643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","category-construction","category-student-life","category-today-homepage","category-uconn-storrs","category-university-life","category-university-news"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-25 23:17:19","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212643"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":212649,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212643\/revisions\/212649"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/206690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212643"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=212643"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=212643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}