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in dollars) | architect = Ellerbe Becket〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.mdstad.com/completed-projects/university-of-maryland-comcast-center )〕 Design Collective, Inc. | structural engineer = Delon Hampton & Associates〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.delonhampton.com/comcast_center )〕 | general_contractor = Gilbane/Smoot | former_names = Comcast Center (2002-2014) | tenants = Maryland Terrapins men's basketball Maryland Terrapins women's basketball Maryland Terrapins volleyball Maryland Terrapins wrestling (2002–present) | seating_capacity = 17,950 }} Xfinity Center is the indoor arena and student activities center that serves as the home of the University of Maryland Terrapins men's and women's basketball teams. Ground was broken in May 2000 and construction was completed in October 2002 at a cost of $125 million.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.mdstad.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=46&Itemid=99 )〕 It replaced Cole Field House as the Terrapins' home court, which had served as the home of Maryland basketball since 1955. The on-campus facility was originally named the Comcast Center after Comcast Corporation purchased a 20-year, $25 million corporate naming agreement when the arena opened in 2002. In July 2014, it was renamed Xfinity Center after Comcast's cable brand, Xfinity. Xfinity Center, which has a capacity of 17,950,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://umterps.cstv.com/facilities/md-comcast-center.html )〕 opened for Midnight Madness on October 11, 2002 and the first official men's game was a 64-49 victory over Miami University (Ohio) on November 24, 2002. In its first season, 281,057 fans visited to watch Terrapin basketball games for a per-game average of 17,566 as Maryland finished fifth in the nation in attendance.〔http://www.umterps.com/ViewArticle.dbml?ATCLID=208133549〕 On January 25, 2012, the court was renamed in honor of Gary Williams, the men's basketball coach who retired the previous year. Though Xfinity Center is the largest arena in the state of Maryland, it is the second-largest arena in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area by seating capacity, just behind the Verizon Center in Washington, D.C., which has an official seating capacity of roughly 500 more than Xfinity Center. The facility is also used for concerts, graduation ceremonies including those for the University of Maryland, state high school basketball tournaments, and other special events. Concert seating capacity is nearly 19,000. ==Amenities== In addition to the main basketball court, Xfinity Center also features a 1,500-seat gymnasium for volleyball, gymnastics, and wrestling; a 7,000-square-foot academic support center for student-athletes; Heritage Hall, a 400-seat multi-purpose room equipped to host banquets, press conferences, meetings and serve as a pregame restaurant suite overlooking the arena's seating bowl; the Terrapin Team Shop; and administrative offices for most Terrapins athletic programs. Inside the lobby on the east side of the facility is the Terrapin Walk of Fame and History, featuring many images of the past of Maryland athletics as well as the 2002 men's national championship trophy and the 2006 women's national championship trophy.〔 In 2014, the University replaced the building's original scoreboard with a new, start-of-the-art center hung Daktronics videoboard that features two side displays measuring approximately 12.5 feet high by 33 feet wide and two end displays measuring approximately 9 feet high by 16.5 feet wide making it one of the largest jumbotrons in college basketball. The videoboard can display one single image to show live video and replays, but can also be divided into separate windows to display graphics, animations, game statistics, scoring information and advertisements. The Xfinity Center also features four message displays in each corner of the facility that are used to display closed captioning.〔http://www.umterps.com/ViewArticle.dbml?ATCLID=209621081〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Xfinity Center (College Park, Maryland)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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