The Mo Ostin Basketball Center

UCLA Athletics - Interior and exterior photos of the Mo' Austin Basketball Practice Facility.
October 24th, 2017
Copyright Don Liebig/ASUCLA
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Approximately eight months after the Wasserman Football Center campaign launch, in spring 2014, UCLA Athletics doubled down on capital projects and announced its efforts to raise private funds for a state-of-the-art basketball practice facility. Named after legendary music industry executive and philanthropist Morris "Mo" Ostin, the Mo Ostin Basketball Center is currently being constructed near Pauley Pavilion at the south end of the Los Angeles Tennis Center and is on-schedule to open in fall 2017, less than three-and-a-half years after the campaign’s launch.

The new The Mo Ostin Basketball Center will be a comprehensive basketball practice facility located near Pauley Pavilion. Highlights of the new building design include:

State-Of-The-Art basketball practice facility dedicated to honoring current and former UCLA Basketball student-athletes
Practice gyms for both men's and women's programs
Locker rooms for both men's and women's basketball programs
Men's and women's basketball training area
Exclusive use for both men's and women's basketball programs and their student-athletes

Since the official public announcement to raise private funds for the comprehensive basketball practice facility that will house both men’s and women’s basketball programs, the UCLA Athletic Department has received more than $17 million in cash and pledges to date. With just north of $7 million remaining to reach the $25 million goal in private funding, monies raised will ensure that the Mo Ostin Basketball Center is not only completed on time, but, as is the case with the Wasserman facility, in the most comprehensive manner possible. Remaining monies raised will be allocated to first-rate finishes, branding and technology in order to establish the center as one of the premier basketball-specific training facilities in the country.

Thanks to the nearly 1,000 dedicated alumni, fans and friends of UCLA having raised nearly $75 million in total for the two highly-anticipated facilities, approximately $15 million of additional funding remains to construct the Wasserman Football Center and Mo Ostin Basketball Center to the state-of-the-art standards by which each was designed. While naming opportunities for the facilities remain, gifts of any amount, all of which are tax-deductible, will make a significant impact on the future of UCLA Athletics.

For more information or to become involved in either campaign, contact the UCLA Athletics Development Office at 310-206-3302, or visit www.UCLABasketballFacility.com and www.UCLAFootballFacility.com.