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New Jersey’s Most Historic Gymnasium | |
 Walsh Gymnasium during a basketball game in December 2022 | |
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| Location | Seton Hall University South Orange, NJ 07079 |
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| Coordinates | 40°44′30″N 74°14′42″W / 40.741690°N 74.244921°W |
| Public transit | South Orange station:
Gladstone Branch: Weekdays Only NJT Bus  : 92 |
| Owner | Seton Hall University |
| Operator | Seton Hall University |
| Capacity | 1,316 (basketball) 1,100 (volleyball) |
| Surface | Hardwood |
| Construction | |
| Broke ground | 1939 |
| Opened | 1941 |
| Renovated | 2020-2021 |
| Construction cost | $600,000 ($13.1 million in 2023 dollars[1]) |
| Architect | Anthony J. DePace |
| Tenants | |
| Seton Hall Pirates men's basketball (1941–1985; Occasional Non-Big East Games 1985-present) Seton Hall Pirates women's basketball (1973-present) Seton Hall Pirates women's volleyball | |
Walsh Gymnasium is a multi-purpose arena in South Orange, New Jersey on the campus of Seton Hall University. The arena opened in 1941 and can seat 1,316 people.[2] It was home to the Seton Hall Pirates men's basketball team before they moved to the Meadowlands in 1985 and then Prudential Center in 2007. Currently, the arena hosts the women's basketball and volleyball teams, but continues to host men's basketball for preseason exhibitions, postseason invitational games such as early rounds of the NIT, and occasionally a regular season non-conference game if there is a conflict with Prudential Center's event schedule. The building is part of the Richie Regan Recreation & Athletic Center, and, like the school's main library, is named for Rev. Thomas J. Walsh, fifth bishop of Newark and former President of the Board of Trustees.
Walsh hosted a semifinal game of the ECAC Metro Region tournament, a National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I men's college basketball tournament organized by the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC), in 1977.[3][4] The Pirates played two games in the 2012 NIT and three games in the 2024 NIT in Walsh.
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- ^ "Facilities". Seton Hall University Athletics. Retrieved 4 January 2019.
- ^ "ECAC Men's Basketball Tournaments - Varsity Pride". jonfmorse.com. Retrieved 2023-01-31.
- ^ Varsity Pride: 1977 ECAC Men's Basketball Tournaments