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Eamonn Brennan of ESPN.com ranked all 14 Big Ten venues based on their difficulty for road teams. Assembly Hall claimed the top spot:
1. Indiana Hoosiers: Assembly Hall, opened in 1971
Were this a list of the best basketball venues in Indiana, Hinkle Fieldhouse would win. (Though there would be a few mid-century, 7,000-seat high school arenas in the running.) Toughest, though? That’s Assembly Hall. It’s bonkers-loud, even when the team is just so-so. The sideline stands rise impossibly, and imposingly, into the rafters. And you can forgive the student section’s incongruous split between the baseline, corners and upper deck for two reasons:– The deep-pocketed who occupy the prime sideline seats are as locked-in and rowdy as most 20-year-olds.