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WOMEN'S BASKETBALL HALL OF FAME Knoxville - 700 Hall of Fame Drive, near Volunteer Landing (Follow directions to Volunteer Landing. Then, follow Hall of Fame Drive to corner of Hill Ave) 37915. Phone: (865) 633-9000. www.WBHOF.com. Hours: Monday-Saturday 10:00am5:00pm (summers). Tuesday-Friday 11:00am-5:00pm & Saturday 10:00am5:00pm (rest of year). Closed on winter Sundays & Mondays except during special game event days. Closed Christmastime, Thanksgiving Day, New years eve/day, Summer holidays and Easter with abbreviated hours on some holidays. Admission: $7.95 adult, $5.95 senior (62+) & child (6-15). “O.K. Daniel. We know you’re a great player...but this is women’s basketball...”

EAST TENNESSEE HISTORY CENTER Knoxville - 601 South Gay Street, downtown (Follow directions to Volunteer Landing. Right onto Gay, then corner of Gay & Clinch Avenue, downtown) 37901. Phone: (865) 215-8830. www.east-tennessee-history.org. Hours: MondaySaturday 10:00am-4:00pm, Sunday 1:00-5:00pm. Admission: FREE.

A visit to the Center will bring you face to face with the region's history makers. Here you will find larger than life figures, such as David (Davy) Crockett, Nancy Ward, and Sgt. Alvin C. York. Visitors enter in the year 1750 and follow the road to statehood in 1796 in a streetscape exhibit featuring a recreated drugstore and restored streetcar. The new signature exhibit, Voices

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The world's most interactive Hall of Fame brings college, Olympic and Pro teams' history to life. The facility features three indoor courts, an interactive locker room where visitors can hear a coach's halftime talk, and an area called The world's largest "In the Huddle" pep talk with the coach (great photo basketball is located on the north end of the Hall, ops). Put yourself in a Hall of Fame’s induction pics weighs 10 tons and sits on or sit on benches amongst players. See the world's top of a glass staircase that largest basketball or try your skills on the Ballgirl resembles a basketball net. Athletic Playground. Dioramas feature an early basketball scene and the Red Heads actual touring car. Tip-Off Theater's inspirational film packs all the emotion of more than 100 years of history of women's basketball into 15 minutes. A very inspiring and exciting museum!


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