{"id":329729,"date":"2026-07-05T03:42:27","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T03:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/329729\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T03:42:27","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T03:42:27","slug":"stephen-c-oconnell-center-florida-gators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/329729\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen C. O’Connell Center – Florida Gators"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Gators<\/p>\n

The multipurpose Stephen C. O’Connell Center, named for a former University of Florida president, features a main arena covering more than 3.6 acres and containing 292,000 square feet. In addition to the main arena, there is a practice court, two weight rooms, a natatorium<\/a>, an indoor track, a private gymnastics arena, dance studio, martial arts studio and several classrooms.<\/p>\n

The men’s and women’s basketball teams play all their home games on the same court on which the 2006-07 men’s basketball team won their first national championship.<\/p>\n

The facility underwent\u00a0a $64.5 million renovation<\/a>\u00a0that was completed December of 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The multipurpose Stephen C. O’Connell Center, named for a former University of Florida president, features a main arena…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":256230,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-329729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}