Jadwin Gymnasium

L. Stockwell Jadwin Gymnasium
Construction
Jadwin Jungle

Location	Princeton University Princeton, NJ 08542
Owner	Princeton University
Operator	Princeton University
Capacity	6,854
Broke ground	1964
Opened	1969
Construction cost	$6.5 million
Architect	Walker O. Cain & Assoc.
Tenants
Princeton Tigers (Basketball, track, fencing, squash, & tennis)

The L. Stockwell Jadwin Gymnasium is a 6,854-seat multi-purpose arena at Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey. The arena opened in 1969. It is home to the Princeton Tigers college basketball teams. It replaced Dillon Gymnasium, the home of Princeton volleyball and wrestling, as the fifth main basketball arena on campus.

In 1965, the mother of Leander Stockwell Jadwin, class of 1928, gave a gift of $27 million to the university in his name. He had been the captain of the track team and had died just months after graduation in an automobile accident. The school decided to use $6.5 million towards the building of the gymnasium, which had just barely been started.

The gymnasium has 250,000 square feet (23,226 square meters) of floor space on five levels for multiple sports. It is notable for its unique roof consisting of three interlocking shells. The seating is highly asymmetrical, with the equivalent of middle-school-gymnasium bleachers on three sides and a major-college indoor arena concrete grandstand on the fourth side, holding the majority of the seats. Behind the opposite bleachers lies the void of the indoor track, which itself sits atop an indoor baseball field and three additional levels underneath. This creates challenges for generating noise and atmosphere even when the stands are full compared to other gyms in the Ivy League, which are mostly smaller and more traditional in their layout. The television cameras also are mounted on the large grandstand side, which makes Jadwin seem much smaller on television. Nonetheless, Princeton has a very strong historical record for home games.

Jadwin Gymnasium hosted games of the first round of the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament twice, in 1970 and 1972. It was the site of the ECAC Metro Region Tournament organized by the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) in 1976.^[1]

The Jadwin Jungle is the official student cheering section and basketball booster group in Jadwin Gymnasium for the Princeton Tigers basketball teams, located in the bleachers closest to the court behind the scorers' tables. The cheering section was founded in 2003 by three Princeton undergraduates and quickly grew to be the largest student group on campus.^[2]

References

↑ Varsity Pride: 1976 ECAC Men's Basketball Tournaments
↑ "Jadwin Jungle". Retrieved March 11, 2011.

External links

Jadwin Gymnasium, from Princeton.edu

Basketball arenas of the Ivy League

Pizzitola Sports Center (Brown) Levien Gymnasium (Columbia) Newman Arena (Cornell) Leede Arena (Dartmouth) Lavietes Pavilion (Harvard) The Palestra (Penn) Jadwin Gymnasium (Princeton) Payne Whitney Gymnasium (Yale)

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Sports	Ivy League Princeton Tigers Men's basketball Women's basketball Football Men's ice hockey Women's ice hockey Men's lacrosse Rugby

Facilities	Hobey Baker Rink Bill Clarke Field Class of 1952 Stadium Dillon Gymnasium Jadwin Gymnasium University Field (defunct) Palmer Stadium (defunct) Princeton University Stadium Roberts Stadium Shea Rowing Center

Rivalries	1869 New Jersey vs. Rutgers football game 1922 Princeton vs. Chicago football game Rutgers–Princeton Cannon War

Spirit	The First Game Princeton Cannon Song Princeton University Band Winged football helmet

See Also: Princeton, New Jersey — Presidents of Princeton University

Princeton Tigers men's basketball

Venues	University Gymnasium (1900–1944) Hobey Baker Memorial Rink (1944–1947) Dillon Gymnasium (1947–1969) Jadwin Gymnasium (1969–present)

Rivalries	Penn

Culture & lore	Princeton offense A Sense of Where You Are The Tiger "Princeton Cannon Song"

People	Head coaches

Seasons	1900–01 1901–02 1902–03 1903–04 1904–05 1905–06 1906–07 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

Helms and Premo-Porretta national championship in bold; NCAA Final Four appearance in italics

Coordinates: 40°20′36″N 74°38′55″W / 40.343449°N 74.648595°W / 40.343449; -74.648595

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