Penn State has moved the Illinois basketball game from the Bryce Jordan Center to Rec Hall. Attendance at Bryce Jordan has been pitiful. Think of the Assembly Hall with the lights turned off over the 200 level. We've gone to the Illinois vs Penn State at Bryce Jordan for the past four or five years and we've always been able to get great seats via SeatGeek, but they actually turn the lights off on the upper section so you can't see that the seats are empty.
Rec Hall? Think Huff Gym. Rec Hall was built in 1929 and has a seating capacity of 6,502. Huff Gym (I can't call it Huff Hall. I took WSI/water sports, and fencing, for part of my PE requirement at Huff) seats 4,050 and was opened in 1921. It was used for basketball until the Assembly Hall opened in 1964 (which you old farts, that is 60 years ago).
Tickets are not available for the game except to season ticket holders, and tickets on SeatGeek are for seats in the Bryce Jordan Center. We've been to Illinois vs Penn State volleyball, and the place as small as it sounds. It's one way to fill the house. Make the house smaller. Much smaller. Next year's game will be held in a doublewide.
Penn State is hyping it as a "return to its root," and the Illinois game will be the first game back at Rec Hall. Here's the
Penn State announcement.