St. John | |
 Exterior view in 2014 | |
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| Location | 410 Woody Hayes Dr Columbus, OH 43210 |
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| Coordinates | 40°0′19″N 83°1′8″W / 40.00528°N 83.01889°W |
| Public transit |   1 CABS CoGo |
| Owner | Ohio State University |
| Operator | Ohio State University Department of Athletics |
| Capacity | 13,276 (basketball) |
| Construction | |
| Opened | November 1956 |
| Construction cost | $4 million (approximate) |
| Tenants | |
| Ohio State Buckeyes (NCAA) Men's basketball 1956–1998 Men's gymnastics 1956–2019 Wrestling 1956–2019 Women's basketball 1965–1998 Men's volleyball 1968–2019 Women's gymnastics 1970–2019 Women's volleyball 1971–2018 | |
St. John Arena is a multi-purpose arena on the campus of Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio, United States. The arena was named for Lynn St. John, who served as Ohio State's men's basketball coach and athletic director until 1947. It was designed by Howard Dwight Smith, architect of Ohio Stadium. It opened in 1956 to serve as the home of multiple Buckeye athletic teams, primarily the men's basketball team. Prior to its construction, the men's basketball team played off-campus in the Fairgrounds Coliseum at the state fairgrounds. St. John Arena served as home of the men's and women's basketball teams until it was replaced by Value City Arena in 1998, while the remaining tenants moved to the Covelli Center in 2019. It is still occasionally used by the men's and women's basketball teams for games and is used before every OSU football home game for The Ohio State University Marching Band's Skull Session.