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Venues include a 10,500-seat amphitheater which was built in 1998 and features a 60-by-40-foot stage; a 12,279-seat arena featuring 31,200 square feet of arena floor space; the Idaho Horse Park, used for horse shows; and the Sports Center, used for track and field events including the home meets of the Boise State University Broncos track teams. The Idaho Center arena is best known for hosting the Snake River Stampede Rodeo during the third week of July every year. The Snake River Stampede is considered one of the nation's top rodeos. The arena is the former home of the Idaho Stampede of the Continental Basketball Association and the Idaho Stallions of the now defunct Indoor Professional Fooball League and is used for concerts; trade shows, sporting events, and other events. The Idaho Center arena is the former home of the NAIA Division II Men's Basketball Tounament. Upon its completion, the tounament moved to the Idaho Center in 1998 from its former home on the campus of Northwest Nazarene University , at the time it was known as Northwest Nazarene College. The tournament left town in 2000 when NNC became a University and left the NAIA to become and NCAA Division II School. In March 2003, the Idaho Center arena played home for the Boise State University mens basketball second round matchup in the NIT against the University Of Wisconsin-Milwaukee . The game was moved to the Idaho Center due to a prior scheduled Metallica concert at Boise State's Taco Bell Arena . The game drew a crowd of more than 10,000, making it the largest crowd to see a basketball game in the arena's history. |
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