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Tennessee Basketball shows off new center-hung video board at Food City Center

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Tennessee Athletics, Kate Luffman/Tennessee Athletics
Tennessee Athletics, Kate Luffman/Tennessee Athletics

Tennessee Basketball on Monday afternoon announced the new center-hung scoreboard, new video board and corner video boards for Thompson-Boling Arena at Food City Center. 

The center-hung video board includes 11 displays. There is a total of 24 new LED displays in the arena.

“An essential part of our partnership with Food City is the chance to reinvest in the fan experience, and the upgrades to the video boards are nothing short of impressive,” Tennessee athletic director Danny White said in a press release. ”We are proud to have the most dedicated fan base in all of sports, and we are unwavering in our commitment to continually elevate their experience.”

Food City Center bought naming rights to arena in 2023

The four main displays on the center-hung video board are 15 feet high by 24.5 feet wide. Four corner wedge displays fit between the four main video boards. Below the main displays is a ribbon board measuring three feet high by 103 feet in circumference. There are two displays angled on the underside of the center-hung scoreboard that are both six feet high and 20 feet wide.

The ribbon boards around the arena are 2.5 feet high and nearly 880 feet in length. Daktronics also replaced six scorers table displays, four displays at 2.5 feet high by 10 feet wide and two that are 2.5 feet high by 6.5 feet wide.

Two marquee displays were added outside Thompson-Boilng Arena, measuring 9.5 feet high by 25.5 feet wide. 

Tennessee in 2023 announced Thompson-Boling Arena’s naming rights had been sold to Food City, a deal worth $20 million over 10 years. 

Renovations at Food City Center include new Riverside Club

The Vols announced “new and needed renovations to the arena and upgrades to the facility’s interior and exterior” at the time, including the state-of-the-art center-hung video board, new club amenities, updates to the Ray Mears Room and modernization of the arena’s exterior that will make it look “more in line with Tennessee’s other athletics venues.”

The new Riverside Club is being added in the lower level of the arena behind the lower bowl. An area is now an open space where for television trucks and other production vehicles previously parked for events. 

According to a Tennessee press release on the project in January, approximately 1,500 seats in this area will now have access to a club area that will offer various food and beverage options and an area for socializing before the game or during halftime.

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