Belarmino’s basketball is about to be part of a Division I program this season, and now they’ve discovered a new house for their games.
Men’s and women’s basketball will play its games at home at Freedom Hall as a component of a multi-year component with Kentucky Venues, the school announced Monday.
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The school athletics program has moved to the NCAA point this summer, with a maximum of groups participating in the ASUN conference.
The Knight had in the past held his home games at Knights Hall, but with the COVID-19 pandemic and limited seating capacity for the 2020-21 season, Belarmino initiated the procedure for the location of the sites of choice. Games.
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Belarmino’s sporting director Scott Wiegandt said: “Freedom Hall is a selection of herbs as it has a rich basketball culture and is minutes from our campus. “
“Then we saw the apparent benefits of making Freedom Hall a long-term home for our basketball programs,” Wiegandt said in a press release. “It has long been considered to be one of the most productive places in the world to watch basketball. game and the site provides us with enough space for our new DI state. “
Freedom Hall, the former home of the University of Louisville basketball groups until the opening of the KFC Yum Center in 2010, also housed the Colonels of Kentucky of the American Basketball Association and the site of the first professional boxing of Louisville legend Muhammad Ali.
The 18252-seat Freedom Hall can accommodate 2,700 enthusiasts this season under the advice of Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear to limit attendance to 15% of its ability to prevent coVID-19 from spreading. and would have been limited to just over three hundred enthusiasts this season.
Fans will be able to watch knights’ men’s and women’s groups make their Freedom Hall debut over Thanksgiving weekend. The men are the hosts of the University of Transylvania on Saturday, November 28 and the women the west of Illinois the next day.
Belarmino plans to upload a Freedom Hall logo, adding on the basketball court.
“We are incredibly proud to welcome Bellarmine University to Freedom Hall,” David S said. Beck, president and CEO of Kentucky Venues, in a press release. “It’s the best combination, as Freedom Hall and Bellarmine represent a historical legacy of basketball I think Belarmino enthusiasts will love to cheer up their knights here.
Dr. Susan M. Donovan, president of Belarmino, said the agreement underscores Belarmino’s commitment to her strategic plan with the university’s links to the region through partnerships and collaboration.
“We are very happy to join an establishment like Kentucky Venues that has budget and public,” he said.
The arena is also very familiar to Belarmino’s coach Scott Davenport, who was an assistant at the U of L from 1996 to 2005.
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