One of nine “hallowed spaces” on the NC State campus, venerable “old” Reynolds Coliseum is now a place where the Wolfpack’s legendary past meets its promising future. On Nov. 14, 2018, a naming gift helped to rename the facility the James T. Valvano Arena at William Neal Reynolds Coliseum in honor of the legendary former men’s basketball coach.

The largest basketball arena in the southeast when it opened its doors in 1949, Reynolds reopened in the fall of 2016 after underoing a $35 million renovation. The basketball court, where Hall of Famers Norm Sloan, Jim Valvano and Kay Yow once coached, has been shifted to the south end, seats have been arranged closer to the playing surface and air conditioning was added for the first time in the building’s 67-year history.

The building serves as the permanent home for NC State’s ROTC programs, women’s basketball, volleyball, gymnastics, wrestling and rifle, while also providing an on-campus gathering place for large-scale campus and student events, such as convocation, graduation, keynote addresses, concerts and shows, befitting one of the nation’s leading public research universities.