The home of USC Trojan basketball is the multi-purpose Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena. Since first opening its doors in 1959, the Sports Arena has averaged more than a million visitors a year. Its annual calendar of events includes not only sporting contests, but concerts, exhibits, ice shows, conventions and pageants as well.

Conceived as the ultimate in modern beauty, efficiency and flexibility, the twin level, totally air-conditioned Sports Arena is elliptical in shape with no posts to impair spectator vision. Every seat is a foam rubber, upholstered arm chair designed with fireside viewing in mind.

USC men's basketball has made the Sports Arena its home since the facility was first built and the women's team played selected games there in the early 1980s. In fact, the Sports Arena played host to the largest crowd to ever view a Pacific-10 Conference basketball game, when 15,517 fans watched the Trojans beat UCLA, 83-79, in 1992. USC's women's basketball team moved on campus in the late 1980s but has played in the Sports Arena for the last five years.

A vast array of improvements, including fresh paint, a new club and restaurant area, directional signage and resurfaced floors grace this historic facility that has hosted several NBA finals, the 1968 and 1972 NCAA Men's Final Four and 1992 NCAA Women's Final Four. The Sports Arena also hosted the 1994 NCAA Men's Basketball West Regional and the 1999 NCAA Women's West Regional.

The Sports Arena also has two luxury suites that provide their owners with the best seats in the house and plenty of amenities. Add this to the facelift of the dressing rooms, and the Sports Arena is a premium facility for both the USC Trojans and numerous other sporting and entertainment events.