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Maples Pavilion 
Full name Roscoe Maples Pavilion Location 655 Campus Dr,
Stanford, CACoordinates 37°25′47″N 122°09′38″W / 37.429646°N 122.160528°W Broke ground 1967 Opened 1968 Renovated March 2004 Owner Stanford University Operator Stanford University Construction cost $3.24 Million USD Architect John C. Warnecke Capacity Basketball: 7,392 Tenants Stanford Cardinal (1968–present) Maples Pavilion is a 7,392-seat multi-purpose arena in Stanford, California built in 1968. Maples underwent a $30 million renovation in March 2004, which wrapped up in time for conference play in December of that year. It was named after its principal donor, Roscoe Maples, a member of the 1904 Stanford class.
It is home to multiple Stanford Cardinal athletics teams, including men's and women's basketball and women's volleyball. Prior to this, Stanford played at Old Pavilion.
The raucous student section that roots for the men's basketball team is called the "6th Man" and it is located in several rows along courtside.
Prior to the renovation, the floor at Maples had a very springy feel to it. Built to minimize injuries to players, it was removed due to the "Missed Stair Effect", a phenomenon that occurs when the body senses where the floor should be upon landing after a jump. With the springy feeling of the floor, often the level would be different than when the player jumped, causing a strange sensation throughout the body.
On October 14th, 2010, the Dalai Lama advocated a secular approach to compassion to a standing room only crowd.
External links
Stanford Cardinal Big Game • The Play • The Stanford Axe • Stanford Stadium • Maples Pavilion • Old Pavilion • Sunken Diamond • Taube Tennis Center • NACDA Directors' Cup
Basketball arenas in the Pacific-12 Conference McKale Center (Arizona) • Wells Fargo Arena (Arizona State) • Haas Pavilion (California) • Coors Events Center (Colorado) • Matthew Knight Arena (Oregon) • Gill Coliseum (Oregon State) • Maples Pavilion (Stanford) • Pauley Pavilion (UCLA) • Galen Center (USC) • Huntsman Center (Utah) • Hec Edmundson Pavilion (Washington) • Beasley Coliseum (Washington State)
Categories:- Stanford Cardinal basketball
- Stanford University buildings and structures
- College basketball venues in the United States
- Indoor arenas in the United States
- Sports venues in the San Francisco Bay Area
- Sports venues in Santa Clara County, California
- California sports venue stubs
- Sports venues in California
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