THE BRADLEY CENTER

The Bradley Center, one of the premier facilities in the country, serves as home to Marquette Basketball. Opened in 1988-89, it seats 18,850 for basketball.

If you enjoy the atmosphere that surrounds college basketball, then the Bradley Center is the place for you. Since its opening, over 3.5 million fans have witnessed Marquette Basketball games and given the Blue and Gold a definite home court advantage.

The Bradley Center is a gift to the state of Wisconsin from Jane and Lloyd Pettit in memory of her late father, Harry Lynde Bradley. Bradley was co-founder and chairman of the Allen-Bradley Company. The Bradley Center is the only major, public assembly facility in North America with construction underwritten through the philanthropy of a single family.

The Bradley Center is the home of three sports teams; the Milwaukee Bucks of the NBA, the AHL's Milwaukee Admirals, and the Marquette University men's basketball team. The $91 million structure features glass-enclosed lobbies, three concourses, movable seats and accommodates both sports and non-sports events, such as concerts, ice shows, family entertainment and even motor sports events.

Bradley Center patrons won't miss a moment of action with the Center's use of state-of-the art video technology. In September 1995, the Bradley Center unveiled a new Sony Jumbo-Tron large screen video display system. The four-sided Jumbo-Tron is the largest center-hung system in North America. Supplementing the scoreboard are two 14-foot by 10-foot video walls that are used during events for replays and split-screen action. In addition, there are over 120 video monitors located throughout the center.

The Bradley Center Video Suite/Press Box, located on the west side of the Suite Concourse, contains the production facilities for the Center's video and audio systems. The video system receives signals from multiple, high-resolution CCD cameras placed in various locations in the Center. The Bradley Center sound system is capable of delivering 100 decibels to all areas of the arena. It features distributed speaker clusters suspended 85 feet over the seating area and floor.