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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 03/07/2026 01:32:00

The 1956 US Olympic basketball team beat a Southwest Conference all-star side 90-66 to christen the floor - the largest basketball crowd the Dallas area had ever assembled. Moody Coliseum, on the Southern Methodist University campus in University Park, opened in November 1956 as the SMU Coliseum. The building was a leap: 230 feet wide and 414 feet long, sunk 10 feet below ground for sightlines and acoustics, the 2.5-million-dollar arena replaced a 3,000-seat gym with roughly 10,000 seats - the ...