Mackey Arena — Attraction in West Lafayette

Six-year Purdue Mens basketball season ticket holder. The facility itself is well staffed and the door personnel are courteous and fairly efficient. The problem with this facility is the bench style seat widths were designed/sized for people of the 1950's. People are much wider/larger now and many take 1.5 seat space yet everyone's crammed in so tight. We have spectators who are way too large and some people on aisles literally have their legs on the steps and virtually sitting on the bench edge. For this primary reason and several poor experiences with other spectators who don't even try to stay within their alotted space, I won't renew my tickets (post-pandemic). It's just too uncomfortable, and other spectators are very rude when exceeding their seat space that arguments have ensued. At University of Louisville Yum arena, actual seats ensure there's no space encroachment. Also, the 'new' overhead court display's view is blocked by banners hung way too low from the ceiling. The administration refused to make any adjustments for this problem. The audio system is terrible, the announcer is uninterpretable. Great video display (if you could see it) and lousy substandard audio system. For about a year they had an internet wifi booster but recently it hasn't worked....

As a Purdue alumni I've watched close to 100 games here. Great atmosphere, great fans, and always entertaining. With the renovation it has much improved facilities and concessions compared to 20 years ago when i was a student. They let you take food and beverage to your seats now too, which didn't happen back in the day. ... oh yeah, and they sell beer.

They also utilize technology really well to make the pre game pretty cool and fun to watch.

Loud, loud, and loud.... All in a great way. Mackey is one of the greatest basketball venues in the country and that loudness provides the best home...

Great Arena both Basketball teams are and Not Bad seats and Everything great about it Boiler up Men's Basketball is unbeaten Women's basketball is 15-6 so far for their season as they do Michigan State at East Lansing Michigan Let's go Boilers Purdue Men's Basketball are now 22-1 Best Start in School History Purdue Men's Basketball travel to Bloomington Saturday as they do their rivalry the Indiana Hoosier in Assembly Hall Purdue Women's Basketball will host their rivalry the Indiana Hoosier in Mackey Arena Boiler up Zach...