Dan Heuchert

University Hall is best known as the raucous home of many fearsome Cavalier basketball teams, both men’s and women’s. It was all that – and much, much more. Read on as alumni recall some of the versatile arena’s biggest – and oddest – events.

They’re calling it “The Mamadi Miracle,” the unforgettable play that propelled UVA into the Final Four for the first time in 35 years. Here’s how it happened, in the words of the people who lived it.