Editing MVP Arena (section)

===College sports===
MVP Arena hosted the [[ECAC Hockey]] championships each March from 2003 until 2010, when the league announced the tournament was moved to [[Boardwalk Hall]] in [[Atlantic City, New Jersey]]; and is often home to the annual [[Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference]] [[college basketball|basketball]] tournament (1990–96, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008–10, and 2015–19).
[[File:Times Union Center Atrium.jpg|thumb|left|MVP Arena's atrium circa 2008, with the 2007-2020 Times Union Center signage]]
In 2003, MVP Arena hosted the [[National Collegiate Athletic Association|NCAA]] basketball East Regional, which was won by [[Syracuse University]] on their way to their first national championship. The arena also hosted the first and second rounds of the [[1995 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament]] as the Knickerbocker Arena.<ref>{{cite web |title=History |url=https://www.timesunioncenter-albany.com/center-info/history/ |website=timesunioncenter-albany.com |access-date=18 September 2020}}</ref>

In 2008, MVP Arena hosted the NCAA [[college hockey|ice hockey]] East Regional tournament. The arena hosted ice-hockey regionals in even-numbered years from 2004 through 2010, which was the eighth time the East Regional has been held at the site.<ref>{{cite news |title=Denver, Cornell, New Hampshire, RIT in Albany Regional|first=Pete|last=Dougherty|url=http://blog.timesunion.com/hockey/denver-cornell-new-hampshire-rit-in-albany-field/4744/|newspaper=[[Times Union (Albany)]]|date=March 21, 2010|access-date=June 10, 2014}}</ref>

In 2000, MVP Arena hosted a regional quarterfinal between [[St. Lawrence University]] and [[Boston University]], which went into quadruple overtime. The game was the longest in the history of the tournament<ref>{{cite web |date=March 28, 2000 |title=St. Lawrence defeats BU -- at 123:53 |url=http://www.espn.com/nch/news/2000/0326/448018.html |website=ESPN.com |publisher=ESPN, Inc. |agency=Associated Press |access-date=18 September 2020}}</ref> and, at the time, the second longest game in Division I men's college hockey history.{{citation needed|date=September 2020}}

MVP Arena also hosted the Frozen Four on two occasions, in 1992 (as Knickerbocker Arena) when [[Lake Superior State University]] defeated [[University of Wisconsin–Madison|Wisconsin]] for the national championship, and again in 2001 as the Pepsi Arena when [[Boston College]] defeated [[University of North Dakota|North Dakota]].{{citation needed|date=September 2020}}

The venue hosted the NCAA women's basketball tournament from March 28 to 31, 2015, and six games of the NCAA Women's Albany 1 and Albany 2 Regionals (Sweet 16 and Elite 8) from March 29 to April 1, 2024.  The NCAA hockey East Regional for the ninth time was hosted from March 25 to 27, 2016.<ref>{{cite news |title=NCAA Again Calls on Albany|first=Mark|last=Singelais|url=http://www.timesunion.com/sports/article/NCAA-again-calls-on-Albany-5055439.php|newspaper=[[Times Union (Albany)]]|date=December 12, 2013|access-date=June 10, 2014}}</ref> MVP Arena once again hosted the 1st and 2nd Rounds Of the 2023 Men's Basketball Tournament on March 17 and March 19, 2023.