The Super Pit

The Super Pit, officially the UNT Coliseum, is the home arena of the North Texas Mean Green basketball teams in Denton, Texas. The roughly 9,800-seat arena earned its nickname for its steep, enclosed seating bowl, which traps crowd noise and creates a genuinely intense atmosphere for Mean Green basketball. It's a step up in scale and comfort from the Mean Green's old cramped gym, while keeping the same close, loud feel that gave the program its nickname heritage. Conference games there remain one of the more underrated home-court environments in the American Athletic Conference.

The arena opened on December 4, 1973 with a 109-93 win over TCU, and its nickname nods to the Mean Green's previous home, the Ken Bahnsen Gym, known as the 'Snake Pit.' The building quickly established itself on the national stage, hosting first- and second-round games of the 1976 NCAA basketball tournament in just its third year. It has remained North Texas's primary basketball home for over five decades, serving as the backdrop for the program's Sun Belt and Conference USA eras before its current American Athletic Conference run.