2011-12 Basketball Guide

The vision of upgrading all of Southern Miss athletic facilities some eight years ago has now come to fruition and the transformation has helped the Golden Eagles feature some of the best facilities in Conference USA as well as the region.

When the grand-scale expansion and improvements plan was laid out in April 2003 by Director of Athletics Richard Giannini, Southern Miss began to take its first steps in becoming one of the most competitive overall programs in the nation. The comprehensive facilities initiative marked improvements in every sporting venue, further ensuring Southern Miss’ place among the elite athletic programs in the nation and saw that completed the last academic year when the tennis facility was built and the softball stadium was added.

• Reed Green Coliseum is the 8,095-seat
on-campus venue for Southern Miss’ men’s
and women’s basketball programs. The facil-
ity, which was formally dedicated on Dec.
11, 1965, recently celebrated its 45th anni-
versary during the 2010-11 basketball sea-
son. A number of improvements have been
made to the Coliseum in recent years, includ-
ing the installation of a new heating and
cooling system in the summer of 2004 and
the installation of a new floor in the spring of
2006. The most recent changes came in the
summer of 2008 when changes and updates
since the spring of 2002. The
facility finished construction last
spring that included a modern
grandstand with press box, rest-
room facilities and team locker-
rooms. An indoor hitting facility
was installed in January 2005 and
additional batting cages are locat-
ed behind the first base dugout.

Southern Miss Tennis Complex

were completed to the coaches’ offices, player locker rooms and training areas.

• Pete Taylor Park/Hill Denson Field has been the home of Southern Miss baseball since 1985, and “The Pete” as it is nicknamed, has seated more than a million fans who have entered its gates. The stadium features bleacher seating for 2,000 fans and chair back seating for 1,678. The stadium also has new media facilities and its popular right field lounge area known as the “Right Field Roost,” which has reserved parking for 40 vehicles and is equipped with barbeque grills. The construction of 12 private luxury suites and a new press box debuted during the 2008 season.