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Name
Hinkle Fieldhouse
Alternate: Butler Fieldhouse

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Butler vs Boise State
Sat 06 Dec 2025 19:00

Established
1928 (97 years old)

Capacity
9,100

Build Cost
$750,000 ($13.7 million in 2024 dollars[3])

Architect
Fermor Spencer Cannon

Country
United States

Location
Indianapolis, IN

Timezone
UTC -05:00 Eastern Standard Time (EST)

Coordinates
39.843611, -86.167222

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Upcoming
06 Dec	Butler	-	Boise Stat
13 Dec	Butler	-	Providence
03 Jan	Butler	-	Villanova
21 Jan	Butler	-	DePaul
24 Jan	Butler	-	Marquette
31 Jan	Butler	-	Georgetown
12 Feb	Butler	-	Connecticu
Results
03 Dec	Butler	84 - 68	Eastern Mi
28 Nov	Butler	94 - 69	Wright Sta
12 Nov	Butler	98 - 66	Chicago St
06 Nov	Butler	88 - 58	Southern I
04 Apr	UC Irvine	84 - 85	Chattanoog
02 Apr	Chattanoo	80 - 73	Loyola-Chi
01 Apr	UC Irvine	69 - 67	North Texa

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Hinkle Fieldhouse (named Butler Fieldhouse from 1928 until 1966) is a basketball arena on the campus of Butler University in Indianapolis, Indiana. Completed in early 1928, it was the largest basketball arena in the United States until 1950. The facility was renamed Hinkle Fieldhouse in 1966 in honor of Butler's longtime coach and athletic director, Paul D. "Tony" Hinkle. It is the sixth-oldest college basketball arena still in use. Added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983 and designated a U.S. National Historic Landmark in 1987, Hinkle Fieldhouse is sometimes referred to as "Indiana's Basketball Cathedral."

Hinkle Fieldhouse has served as the home court for the Butler Bulldogs men's basketball team since 1928 (with the exception of 1943 to 1945, when it was converted to a military barracks during World War II) and as the site of the annual Indiana High School Boys Basketball Tournament's championship games from 1928 to 1971. In addition to amateur and professional basketball games, it has hosted visits from U.S. presidents, indoor track events and bicycle races, professional tennis matches, circuses, and other civic and religious gatherings.

The Butler Bulldogs men's basketball team won the Horizon League conference title at Hinkle in 2010. Several memorable high school basketball championship games were played at the Butler arena, including the 1954 title game, when tiny Milan High School's basketball team defeated a larger Muncie Central High School team. Milan's team served as the inspiration for the movie Hoosiers (1986), and the final scenes of the film's championship game were filmed at Hinkle Fieldhouse.


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