Texas Tech History Lesson: United Supermarkets Arena

Michael C. Johnson-USA TODAY SportsOnly 3 entries remain in the History Lesson series. This week is the United Supermarkets Arena!

Starting in 1956, the “indoor” Texas Tech sports played their home games at Lubbock Municipal Coliseum. LMC served the Red Raiders well; many extraordinary teams called that arena home, including the 1993 Women’s National Championship team. By the 1990s, Lubbock Municipal Coliseum was showing it’s age, and plans were developed to build a new arena to house the Tech sports teams.

One plan called for an off-campus arena, to be named after rock and roll pioneer Buddy Holly, but that plan failed to meet Lubbock voter approval. At that point, Texas Tech began planning…