BancorpSouth Arena
BancorpSouth Arena, formerly Tupelo Coliseum, and BancorpSouth Center, until December 2006, is a 10,000-seat multi-purpose arena, near downtown Tupelo, Mississippi, named for the locally based BancorpSouth, a large multi-state commercial banking company.
It was the home of the Tupelo FireAnts and Mississippi MudCats arena football and the Tupelo T-Rex ice hockey teams. It was also the home of the Mississippi Hound Dogs of the Ultimate Indoor Football League.
The $16 million, 32,000 square foot facility was built in 1993, and is one of the more modern arenas, serving a small market in the Mid-south. Its lot was previously occupied by a shopping mall called Downtown Mall. When the mall closed in 1990 the arena was retrofitted from the old building.
The arena also seats 8,000 for sports events, ranging from basketball to rodeos.Notable events
Sports
- WCW Uncensored
- WCW Uncensored,
- WCW Spring Stampede,
- Gulf South Conference Basketball Tournament
The arena has also hosted the Harlem Globetrotters on several occasions. One Memphis Pharaohs home game was held there in 1996.Concerts
- Elton John
- Journey
- Toby Keith
- Goo Goo Dolls
- Florida Georgia Line
- Kenny Chesney
- Aerosmith
- Tim McGraw
- Faith Hill
- Miranda Lambert
- Kane Brown
- Lynyrd Skynyrd
- Miranda Lambert
- Dwight Yoakum
- Chris Lane
The arena can be scaled down to 4,500 for theater-style concerts. The arena is also used for trade shows and conventions of exhibit space plus 5,000 square feet .
On November 14, 2008, the arena hosted the Mississippi State Bulldogs club hockey team in a game against the Loyola University New Orleans club in the arena's first venture into ice hockey since the T-Rex left in 2003.
On November 21, 2010, the BancorpSouth Arena hosted a college basketball game featuring the Memphis Tigers and the LSU Tigers.
