Pratt Pavilion houses two full-sized basketball courts as well as an athletic training room, a weight room, a film study room and recruiting lounges.
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1610 Lake Loudoun Boulevard
Knoxville, TN, 37996
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Pratt Pavilion is located adjacent to the Food City Center and houses two full-size basketball courts, one for each of Tennessee’s men’s and women’s teams, as well as an athletic training room, a weight room, a film-study room and recruiting lounges.
Directly connected to the arena, Pratt Pavilion features convenient, ground-level parking. The 70,000-square-foot structure boasts balconies at the south side of the building which overlook the practice courts. The west facade of the building is glassed from the first floor to the second floor, allowing visibility of gallery and display areas from the street. The building is a significant element to the picturesque south entrance to the University of Tennessee campus.
The facility is named after lead donor Larry Pratt, whose love for Tennessee athletics began at a young age, when his father, Floyd, brought him to various sporting events at Neyland Stadium, Alumni Gym and Stokely Athletics Center.
In the 1990s, Pratt honored his father by creating an endowed scholarship in his name as a member of the Nathan Dougherty Society. Larry Pratt also was recognized at the 2003 Tennessee-Georgia football game for a $1 million donation to the STEP-UP Campaign.
A native of Athens, Tennessee, Pratt currently resides in McLean, Virginia. He graduated from the University of Tennessee in 1973 with a degree from the College of Business and serves as chairman and CEO of First Savings Mortgage Corporation, which he founded in Washington, D.C. in 1988.
Pratt’s $5 million commitment in April 2006, along with 341 other individual contributors through the Campaign for Tennessee Basketball, made Pratt Pavilion possible.
The UT Athletic Department first broke ground on the Pratt Pavilion in August 2006, and teams began practicing in the new structure on Oct. 12, 2007.
Tennessee’s newest world-class basketball facility was officially unveiled and dedicated on Saturday, Jan. 19, 2008.
Both courts were completely refinished after the 2014-15 season, and the weight room was renovated and expanded to 4,350 square feet in the summer of 2016.
Select areas within Pratt Pavilion have been named in honor of other donors whose support for UT also helped make the project a reality:
• Brenda Lawson Court (women’s)
• Kathleen M. Bolze Locker Room (women’s)
• Frankie Ellis Wade Balcony
• Kevin & Michelle Clayton Locker Room (men’s)
• John Ward Film Room
• Chris Lofton Room*
*gifts by Jerry and Nancy Fortner and Brian and Craig Nelson
