Onondaga County War Memorial

About Onondaga County War Memorial

Onondaga County War Memorial is a former name of Upstate Medical University Arena, used 1951–1999. Upstate Medical University Arena is recorded as an NBA arena in City of Syracuse, New York. It opened in 1951. Its recorded capacity is 8,000. Its only tenant was Syracuse Nationals (NBA, 1952–1963). On our ranked lists it ranks 59th for most name changes among 121 venues with 3 or more names. It has also been known as Oncenter War Memorial Arena (2000–2019).

Appears in

• 59th for most name changes among 121 venues with 3 or more names
• 16th for most name changes among 29 basketball arenas with 3 or more names
• 65th longest single tenancy (11 years) of the 109 longest on record in basketball arenas
• 55th longest single tenancy (11 years) of the 104 longest on record in NBA arenas

Venue Information

Address derived from the venue's coordinates using data © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database Licence (ODbL).

Elevation of the venue's coordinates from USGS and NASA SRTM elevation data, via Open Topo Data.

Architect and operator credits from Wikidata.

Teams

Records are each team's full-season results while it was based here, home and away games alike, from final scores. They are not records of games played at this venue.

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Sources

Where the facts on this page were read from. How VenueStats compiles them.

• Open Topo Data (Public domain): Elevation.
• OpenStreetMap Nominatim (ODbL): Address.
• VenueStats compilation: Opening and closing years, name history and teams (compiled by VenueStats from Sports Reference and Wikipedia).
• Wikidata (CC0): Capacity, Coordinates (Wikidata places the building within 0 m of this point), Architect and operator.
• Wikimedia Commons (Public domain): Photograph.