Located at 410 Woody Hayes Drive, St. John Arena is described as a multi-purpose arena on Wikipedia. While that might technically be true, none of the arena’s current “purposes” involve hosting an Ohio State game, match, meet, dual, or any other varsity sporting event.
And frankly, that is a shame. Because for many years, it was the raucous (at times, let’s not get carried away) home of OSU basketball. The men hooped at St. John from 1956-1998, while the women began play in 1965. The arena also hosted men’s and women’s gymnastics, M&W volleyball, and wrestling during its six-decade run as the indoor athletic hub of the Buckeyes, which came to an end in 2019.