Alaska Airlines Arena At Hec Edmundson Pavilion

I love watching games here. Not a state of the art arena, but intimate and fun. Most of the seats are very good. Go Dawgs!

My family and I attended a gymnastics meet yesterday. We LOVED the meet and enjoyed the show of strong athletic grace by so many women.
The arena however left a lot to be desired.
1.) After buying our tickets we stood in a line to enter. After standing in line, we were told it was for players guests… ok, where is the sign??? How would we know that? Back to another line to wait, again.
2.) Stood in line at the concession stand for 10 minutes to be told I could only buy popcorn from the left line, which I was not in. Ok, weird… WHERE IS THE SIGN? This is the most ridiculous way of selling concessions I have ever heard of.
3.) Concessions are Disneyland prices. This is a college from petes sake — make the concessions at least somewhat affordable.
4.) The cameras that show the crowd focus only on the west end of the arena. All of the prizes thrown to the crowd were there as well. Not once was anyone on the east end of the arena shown on the big screen or given a chance at any of the giveaways.
5.) ONE entrance open for ALL of the cars exiting the parking lot afterwards. Literally took us 24 minutes to get out of the parking lot. WHY???
What a poorly ran event.

Dawg fans unite! Having a sister on the UW Women’s Basketball team, I find myself at the Alaska Airlines Arena for a good majority of the week during the season. Always jam packed during game days, I find it best to get there as early as possible and to be sure you have cash on hand for parking. The parking itself can be a bear while attempting to turn into the stadium, especially during rush hour traffic.
The stadium itself is consistently clean and the workers there are always on the friendly side; eager to greet you with a smile and show you the way to your seat. The concessions offer the typical game day snacks and drinks including cheeseburger sliders, fries, chips, soda, popcorn, candy, etc.
There are four types of seats within the arena, depending on where your ticket has placed you. Behind the two team benches and the students section, there are standard bleachers with no backs. If you want to get right near all the action, there are chair seats available lining the court. The third option is near the bleachers where you will find theater seats with arm rests and backs, making it a little more comfortable. Finally, the further up you climb you will more than likely find the bleachers with pads on them, but no backs.
Alaska Airlines Arena is a place that exudes fun, entertainment, and excitement (and typically plenty of Husky wins!). Overall, a fantastic, clean, and comfortable place to enjoy a sports game.

GO HUSKIES! Love the Husky Hall of Fame! Popcorn is somehow better tasting when the Huskies win!!! Try it!

Great venue for sporting events. I have come here since I was in high school and have always enjoyed watching the University of Washington athletic teams compete. Some of the seating is questionable (there are wooden backs and seat cushions) that are not very comfortable and don’t accommodate over 5’10 height.

It was a full house and no air conditioning! Packed house in the summer with no AC, just a lot of people fanning themselves with paper… not really comfortable and not very pleasant to the nose. Plus, the mic needed to be much louder. In the nosebleeds, we were struggling to hear.
I hope it’s not always like that.

After going to college here, coming back to catch games is always a fun time. Many memories here, lots of fun times I’ll never forget. Watching coatroom are for the interview today but that can’t be against Cal should prove to be a lot of fun. Here’s to being the loudest college fans in the nation!!! GO DAWGS!

Great venue for a game or a concert. The exterior has that old-​school look, while the inside of the gym is very intimate. The sightlines are excellent, and there really isn’t a bad seat in the house. There’s also not a single luxury suite in the house, which means you’re very close to the action regardless of where your seat is located. Makes for a better atmosphere, too.

Full house and sold out game for the Husky alumni game! Parking is free on Sundays too — you just have to park at UW gate houses and not at the parking lot near the IMA. We bought our tickets online so there was no wait — we went to the front of the line and just showed them our print out.
When we first came the facility was very hot but once they turned on the AC it was great! Saw some NBA players from australia, sac kings, clippers :) they should do more and i cant wait until seattle has it’s own NBA team again.

I love womens basketball and the Women Huskies never let me down! Parking is always $ 7.00. There is never a wait to purchase tickets or for the womens bathroom.
No bad seats in the house. It’s very affordable to take your friends and family to any college sporting event here.

I graduated from LB state and I really liked this stadium, not really bad seat from anywhere. Recently I heard it got renovated so there’s HD screens if you’re sitting in the nose bleeds (I was). Parking was $ 10 so carpool if possible.

New big screen… very nice!

It’s had a makeover!
There’s a big screen where the scoreboard used to be at, right over the center of the court. I hated the scoreboard when they installed it, because portions of it weren’t visible at times. Now there are smaller electronic visuals in all the corners.
Despite being very small, there used to be numerous poor seats for viewing in here. The big screen sort of alleviates some of that now.
We’re moving up in the world!

I have been here for a lot of occasions like convocations, games, powwow, and fairs.
This location is great. The inside is not always super clean. The chairs/​seating area are not the most comfortable. The chairs are tall and make it difficult to walk towards the center of a row.
Make sure you watch your own belonging whenever you are here. The seating area makes it easy to lose stuff.

I may be a little biased, but it’s the home of UW basketball! How could you go wrong? There’s just something about watching college sports; a much different feel than watching professional sports.
They’ve updated the scoreboard this year (for your viewing pleasure), introduced some new food options, and there really are no «bad» seats in the house.
Go watch a game… and make sure you’re cheering for the Dawgs. WOOF!

Overall for a College basketball arena it is good and loud. I am not a big fan of the upper level here because they are bench seats with extremely narrow feet areas. I highly advise not sitting up there unless you like a strangers knees in your back or you like people rubbing up very closely too you when they go to the bathroom. Also the concession area is horribly slow and has a selection worse than a high school basketball game. The bathrooms are decent here and during football games I used to go here to poo instead of in Husky Stadium.

This is a great size arena to watch the Huskies play basketball. It has a small size feel to it, but good enough to enjoy all the action on the court. Even the bench seats all have seat cushions so your butt wouldn’t feel like you were sitting on a rock for a couple hours. The seats we had were good even though we were sitting on the top section, but we didn’t have any problems of viewing from where we were at. I didn’t see much in terms of of concession stands, but they must of been around somewhere.

What an amazing place to watch a game! I was fortunate enough to catch a game from behind the bench and it was awesome! Spent time talking with my some of my favorite players during time outs and the like. The best part is we notched a victory! Can’t wait for the next game!

A longstanding institution of basketball that’s been dear to my heart since I can remember. It’s only gotten better through the years.
The outer structure is the original Hed Ed building, with brick walls and pretty arches, giving you a sense of what a campus fieldhouse looked like back before WW2. There are lots of original touches inside if you know where to look – the Exit signs are ancient brass plates over modern electricals.
But most of what’s inside now is modern, and that’s a long overdue improvement. Even when I went to the U, this was a moldy old gym with tons of wasted space at one end, seating only 6,500. And we wondered why our men’s hoop teams never got off the ground. Chris Gobrecht ran a tough, tough women’s program here, building a great rivalry with Stanford, but the men just bumped along with maybe a competitive squad once a generation or something.
But the remodel brings capacity into 5 figures (barely), and makes this a place where you’d want to come play ball – it’s clean, bright, and modern. When I played rugby for the U, we’d come in here and run stairs. Now it almost seems too nice to sneak into for a workout. That’s to its great credit. There are practice facilities still connected, and the old underground network of tunnels to locker rooms and down to the football stadium and so on, those are still there. But the auditorium, seats, and court, those are all glittering newness.
We’ve started to pick up conference championships more regularly since the remodel, so you can say the new building has wins in it. The big playoff wins in men’s hoop, those will always be on the road, since that’s how college hoop works. But we’ve built an intimidating battleground that opponents hate to visit, and that’s part of building a successful program.
The first game I saw in the «new» Hec Ed was Stanford in 05. They came in undefeated, and happily told anyone who would listen that they intended to finish the season that way. They were 26 – 0 when they hit our court. Best sign in the student section? Just said «26 – 1,» with the 26 in cardinal and the 1 in royal purple.
I remember one of their guards sticking Nate Robinson on the perimeter, sagging five feet off him, so scared of his quick first step that he just dared him to shoot the three. Nate cocked his head for a second, like he was saying «really, dude? You don’t think I can hit from here?» He shook his head like a disappointed father, and with a flick of the wrist hit the bottom of the net. Near the end of the game, down by 10 with less than a minute to go, Stanford was still fouling relentlessly, their thuggish post players looking confused as to how they were still going to get that 27^th win, even though the outcome was decided by then.
No opponent is more of a pleasure to beat than a team that has deluded itself into thinking it is somehow *literally* unbeatable.
Go Dawgs.

THE NOSE-​BLEED SEATS ARE SO HARD TO SIT ON! If you have a skinny butt, and have to sit up in the top row in the back, BRING A CUSHION!
Having gone to see Patty Murray and President Obama, I was lucky enough to get a seat inside.
For any event at the UW, it’s usual to have a challenge to find parking. If you like walking and waiting in long lines, this is the place for you!
However, I had to sit up in the rafter seats… top row… in the back.
I’m not one to complain… but…YES WE CAN!
I have a skinny ass and I’m not unusually large, but the seating is so crowded. The fat girls (no offense to you large girls) sitting in front of me, kept leaning back into my knees and legs.
BRING THAT CUSHION!!!