Daniel B.
Yelp
Stegeman Coliseum is home to the University of Georgia's men's and women's basketball teams, gymnastics team, and volleyball team. It's located on campus, opened in 1964, and is named after Herman Stegeman, who coached UGA's football team from 1920 to 1922.
My long-overdue review for Stegeman, or "the Steg" as it's referred to by UGA fans, is based on my experience here as a Georgia Tech fan. In basketball, Tech has played UGA more than any other school. To date, we've played UGA 120 times. Our record against the Dawgs is 64-56 (.533 win percentage). However, we're only 6-27 (.182) at the Steg, which shows you how much of a home court advantage they have over us. https://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/play-index/matchup_finder.cgi?request=1&year_min=1965&year_max=2019&comp_school=le&rank_school=ANY&comp_opp=le&rank_opp=ANY&game_location=A&school_id=georgia-tech&opp_id=georgia&game_type=A&order_by=date_game
As the saying goes for rivalry games, throw the record books out the window. I attended the game where Georgia Tech came into Stegeman undefeated (12-0) and with its highest ranking ever at the Steg (No. 3). The unranked Dawgs upset us in a double overtime thriller, 83-80. It sucked. At least the game was entertaining; exciting and stressful. The thing I remember most about my experience here was when I was walking down the aisle to exit the arena. Dawg fans came up to me and literally barked in my ears like dogs. Okay...
About three months after that game, we advanced to the NCAA Final Four and national championship game (2004). About nine months after that, we got our revenge against UGA at Alexander Memorial Coliseum in Atlanta (https://www.yelp.com/biz/alexander-memorial-coliseum-atlanta). Tech, ranked 4th in the country at the time, beat Georgia, 87-49. It was a real butt whooping.
As a college basketball arena, I thought Stegeman was fine. If anything was memorable about it, it seemed a bit dated at the time. Over $20 million in renovations have been made since 2010 with the latest work to modernize the facility completed in 2017. The Steg currently has a capacity of 10,523, making it the 4th smallest basketball arena in the SEC (out of 14 arenas). Only Florida, Ole Miss, and Auburn have smaller venues.