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Four-thousand seat Sojka Pavilion is the home of the Bucknell men's and women's basketball teams. The building opened Jan. 15, 2003 with a basketball doubleheader against Lehigh.

The building was dedicated in honor of Dr. Gary A. Sojka, former president of Bucknell University and a current faculty member in the biology department. Sojka oversaw Bucknell's highly successful move into the Patriot League in the mid-1980s. He is also a former NCAA Faculty Athletics Representative at the university.

Sojka Pavilion represented the final major piece of Bucknell's state-of-the-art Recreation and Athletics Center when it opened in 2003. In use since the fall of that year was the Krebs Fitness Center and Kinney Natatorium, as well as the new sports medicine center and administrative and coaches' offices.

The pavilion includes "walk-down" access and unobstructed views of the playing surface from all seating areas. Many of the 4,000 seats are fixed in place, while others are retractable to allow for an expandable open floor area with sufficient space for three regulation basketball courts for recreational use as well as varsity practice. The facility also features concession areas, ticket windows, restrooms, handicapped seating, team and officials locker rooms, a media room and other meeting areas.

Behind the scenes, on the floor level, Sojka Pavilion provides a green room for performance acts and other functions, a catering kitchen for special events, ticket windows, locker room space for home and visiting teams and officials, and a loading dock capable of accommodating team buses and production trucks for televised events.

Seating Capacity: 4,000
Surface: Hardwood Floor
Opened: Jan. 15, 2003
Namesake: Dr. Gary A. Sojka, a former Bucknell University president
Other: Walk-down unobstructed spectator seating
Architect: Ewing Cole Cherry Brott (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Construction Manager: R.S. Mowery & Sons (Mechanicsburg, Pa.)
Total Square Footage of Sojka Pavilion: 72,700 sq. ft.
Distance from Competition Floor to Ceiling: 49 feet
Scoreboard Provider: Translux Sports/Fair Play
Wood Floor Provider: Connor Sports Flooring Corp.
Seating Provider: Irwin Seating Company
Basketball Standard Provider: Schelde International
Two (2) Concession Stands
Four (4) Women's Restroom Locations on Concourse
Two (2) Men's Restroom Locations on Concourse