Editing Spectrum Center (section)

===College basketball===
As North Carolina is a hotbed for [[college basketball]] thanks to constant success among its major universities, it was expected that the arena would host many [[National Collegiate Athletic Association|NCAA]] basketball games, and that expectation was correct. Notable NCAA basketball games the Spectrum Center has hosted to date include:

*[[NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship|NCAA tournament]]: 2008, 2011, 2015, 2018, 2024
**The arena hosted the first ever 16–1 upset in the NCAA Tournament since the 64-team field was adopted. The [[UMBC Retrievers men's basketball|UMBC Retrievers]] [[2018 UMBC vs. Virginia men's basketball game|upset]] the [[Virginia Cavaliers men's basketball|Virginia Cavaliers]] 74–54 on March 16, 2018.
*[[ACC men's basketball tournament]]: 2008, 2019<ref>{{cite web |title=Charlotte, Greensboro Named As Future ACC Men's Basketball Tournament Sites |url=http://www.theacc.com/news/2014/3/27/533438c3e4b01ca5e2e2e75c_131480988512824924.aspx?path=mbball |website=Atlantic Coast Conference | date=27 March 2014 |publisher=www.theacc.com |access-date=August 4, 2018 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[Southern Conference]] men's basketball tournament: 2010
*[[Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association]] (CIAA) men's and women's basketball tournaments: 2006–2020.
*The [[Charlotte 49ers]] basketball teams play a number of high-profile games at the arena.{{citation needed|date=October 2016}}