McCarthey Athletic Center

McCarthey Athletic Center
Construction
The New Kennel, K2, The Kennel

Location	801 North Cincinnati Street Spokane, WA 99258
Owner	Gonzaga University
Operator	Gonzaga University
Capacity	6,000
Surface	Hardwood
Broke ground	April 24, 2003^[1]
Opened	November 19, 2004
Construction cost	$25 million ($31.4 million in 2016 dollars^[2])
Architect	ASLC & Ellerbe Becket^[3]
Project manager	Garco Construction Inc.^[4]
Structural engineer	DCI Engineers Inc.^[4]
Tenants
Gonzaga Bulldogs (2004–present) (Men's and Women's basketball) (West Coast Conference, NCAA)

McCarthey Athletic Center or "MAC" is a 6,000-seat multi-purpose arena in Spokane, Washington. The arena opened in 2004. It is home to the Gonzaga University Bulldogs basketball program, and is often called "The New Kennel". This nickname was inherited from the school's former basketball arena, Charlotte Y. Martin Centre, popularly known as "The Kennel," which had been home to the Bulldogs for 39 years. As the MAC has become the established basketball arena on campus its nickname as "The New Kennel" is gradually becoming "The Kennel" with the Charlotte Y. Martin Centre being known as the "Martin Centre." For several years it was the largest basketball arena in the West Coast Conference. It lost this distinction when BYU joined in 2011; its arena, Marriott Center, seats 19,000 – more than triple the MAC capacity.

The arena's naming rights went to the McCartheys of Salt Lake City, as a result of major gifts by Gonzaga Trustee Philip McCarthey and Regent Thomas McCarthey. Both are Gonzaga alumni and former owners of The Salt Lake Tribune.

Not only has it hosted basketball games for the women's and men's teams, it has also served as the venue for concerts by Switchfoot, Yellowcard, Ben Folds, Death Cab for Cutie, and Jay Sean.^[5] Comedians such as Bill Cosby, Jeff Foxworthy, and Kevin Hart have also performed at the McCarthey Athletic Center.^[6]^[7]

In 2006, the West Coast Conference post-season tournament came to the McCarthey Center, marking the first time the event had ever been held in Spokane, as the original "Kennel" was considered too small to host the event and the larger Spokane Arena was unavailable due to annual scheduling conflicts.

After the Gonzaga Bulldogs men's basketball team accumulated 38 consecutive wins in the McCarthey Athletic Center and a 50-game win streak dating back to the Charlotte Y. Martin Centre, the Santa Clara Broncos ended what was, at the time, the longest home win streak in the NCAA. In February 2015, BYU snapped Gonzaga's 41-game home winning streak in the McCarthey Athletic Center, which was also the longest active home winning streak in the NCAA at the time.^[8] As of the close of the 2015-16 season, the Zags are 162–13 (.926) in the building, which includes a 73–8 (.901) record in non-conference games, a 87–5 (.946) record in conference games, and a 2–0 (1.000) record in the WCC Tournament.^[9]

Records

On January 16, 2010, Heather Bowman broke the West Coast Conference women's basketball all-time points record.^[10]
On March 21, 2011, Courtney Vandersloot became the first basketball player (men's or women's) to score 2,000 points and tally 1,000 assists in their career.^[11]

NCAA Tournament

In October 2009, NCAA announced that McCarthey Athletic Center would be one of 16 locations that would host the first and second rounds of the 2011 NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament.^[12]

The arena also hosted the NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament first and second rounds in 2012 and 2013.^[13]^[14]

References

↑ "Gonzaga Breaks Ground for New Basketball Arena". Lewiston Morning Tribune. April 25, 2003. Retrieved January 22, 2012.
↑ Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis Community Development Project. "Consumer Price Index (estimate) 1800–". Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. Retrieved October 21, 2016.
↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on December 25, 2009. Retrieved September 27, 2009.
1 2 "Bulldogs break in a new house for hoops". SportsBusiness Daily. Retrieved 2016-05-05.
↑ "No spring concert this year". February 14, 2012.
↑ "McCarthey Athletic Center timeline". December 20, 2014.
↑ "Gonzaga Students Present Comedian Kevin Hart Sept. 9 at McCarthey Athletic Center". August 24, 2015.
↑ "BYU beats No. 3 Gonzaga, ending nation's longest home win streak". February 28, 2015.
↑ "Gonzaga MBB Hosts Saint Mary's on Senior Night". February 19, 2016.
↑ "Bowman Becomes WCC All-Time Leading Scorer In Win". January 16, 2010.
↑ "Courtney Vandersloot hits D-I record". March 21, 2011.
↑ "GU, WSU to host NCAA women's tournament games". October 29, 2009.
↑ "NCAA Selects Division I First And Second-Recond, Regional Sites For 2012". October 26, 2010.
↑ "Sites for 2013 tournament announced". February 19, 2012.

Coordinates: 47°39′55″N 117°23′57″W / 47.66532°N 117.39919°W / 47.66532; -117.39919

Gonzaga Bulldogs men's basketball

Venues	Russell Gymnasium (1907–1958) Spokane Coliseum (1958–1965, 1979–1980) Charlotte Y. Martin Centre (1965–2004) McCarthey Athletic Center (2004–present) Spokane Arena (alternate, 1995–present)

Culture & lore	Spike the Bulldog "Go, Gonzaga!"

People	Head coaches Record holders

Seasons	1907–08 1908–09 1909–10 1910–11 1911–12 1912–13 1913–14 1914–15 1915–16 1916–17 1917–18 1918–19 1919–20 1920–21 1921–22 1922–23 1923–24 1924–25 1925–26 1926–27 1927–28 1928–29 1929–30 1930–31 1931–32 1932–33 1933–34 1934–35 1935–36 1936–37 1937–38 1938–39 1939–40 1940–41 1941–42 1942–43 1943–44 1944–45 1945–46 1946–47 1947–48 1948–49 1949–50 1950–51 1951–52 1952–53 1953–54 1954–55 1955–56 1956–57 1957–58 1958–59 1959–60 1960–61 1961–62 1962–63 1963–64 1964–65 1965–66 1966–67 1967–68 1968–69 1969–70 1970–71 1971–72 1972–73 1973–74 1974–75 1975–76 1976–77 1977–78 1978–79 1979–80 1980–81 1981–82 1982–83 1983–84 1984–85 1985–86 1986–87 1987–88 1988–89 1989–90 1990–91 1991–92 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95 1995–96 1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 1999–00 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16 2016–17

Gonzaga Bulldogs women's basketball

Venues	Charlotte Y. Martin Centre (1986–2004) McCarthey Athletic Center (2004–present)

Culture & lore	Spike the Bulldog "Go, Gonzaga!"

People	Head coaches Record holders

Seasons	1986–87 1987–88 1988–89 1989–90 1990–91 1991–92 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95 1995–96 1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 1999–00 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16 2016–17

Gonzaga University

Academics	Law

Facilities	Charlotte Y. Martin Centre Foley Center Library

Athletics	Baseball (Washington Trust Field and Patterson Baseball Complex) Men's basketball (McCarthey Athletic Center) Men's soccer (Gonzaga Soccer Field) Football (Gonzaga Stadium)

Media	The Gonzaga Bulletin KAGU

Related	Gonzaga University v. Doe Joseph Cataldo

Basketball arenas of the West Coast Conference

Marriott Center (BYU) McCarthey Athletic Center (Gonzaga) Gersten Pavilion (Loyola Marymount) Alex G. Spanos Center (Pacific) Firestone Fieldhouse (Pepperdine) Chiles Center (Portland) McKeon Pavilion (Saint Mary's) Jenny Craig Pavilion (San Diego) War Memorial Gymnasium (San Francisco) Leavey Center (Santa Clara)

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