John Paul Jones Arena

John Paul Jones Arena is the basketball home of the University of Virginia Cavaliers in Charlottesville, competing in the ACC. The modern, roughly 14,600-seat arena hosts UVA men's and women's basketball as well as concerts, graduations, and other major campus events. Its curved glass exterior and sunken bowl design give it one of the more architecturally distinct interiors in college basketball, with a steep lower level that keeps fans close to the action.

The arena opened in 2006 and quickly became the home court for Tony Bennett's Cavaliers, who built one of the sport's stingiest defensive programs there. It hosted the 2018-19 team that capped a historic redemption arc by winning UVA's first-ever NCAA men's basketball national championship. That title, following the program's stunning first-round loss as a No. 1 seed the year before, cemented JPJ's status as the site of one of the most memorable turnarounds in modern college basketball. The arena remains a premier ACC venue for both men's and women's basketball.