State Farm Center

State Farm Center, formerly Assembly Hall, is the home arena of the Illinois Fighting Illini men's and women's basketball teams in Champaign, Illinois. The 15,544-seat domed arena is one of the largest venues between Chicago and St. Louis, hosting Big Ten basketball, wrestling, concerts, and major campus events. Its dramatic saucer-shaped dome and steeply raked seating create one of college basketball's most distinctive game-day silhouettes. Illini fans know it for its deafening acoustics under that low, wire-supported roof.

Designed by University of Illinois alumnus architect Max Abramovitz, the arena opened on March 4, 1963, when Illinois beat Northwestern 79-73 in its debut game. From 1963 to 1965 it was the largest dome structure in North America, its roof held up by 614 miles of quarter-inch steel wire under tension, until the Houston Astrodome surpassed it. Known as Assembly Hall for its first five decades, the building was renamed State Farm Center in 2013 after State Farm Insurance acquired naming rights tied to a major renovation. It remains an architectural landmark on the Illinois campus and a marquee venue in Big Ten basketball.