Arena-Auditorium

The Arena-Auditorium is the basketball home of the Wyoming Cowboys and Cowgirls in Laramie, Wyoming. Sitting at roughly 7,200 feet of elevation, it is the highest Division I basketball court in the country, and visiting teams routinely cite the thin air as a genuine competitive disadvantage. The multipurpose building also hosts concerts, rodeos, and campus events beyond basketball. On game nights the crowd noise and altitude combine into one of the more distinctive home-court edges in college hoops.

Opened in 1982, the arena quickly earned the nickname 'Dome of Doom' for how brutal the combination of altitude and crowd noise proved for opponents. It has served as the Cowboys' primary home for basketball ever since and became the Cowgirls' home as well starting in 2003. The building's reputation as one of the toughest true road environments in the Mountain West has stuck for over four decades.