Wayne State College

Rice Auditorium serves as the home for the Wildcat men's and women's basketball teams as well as the volleyball squad. Recent upgrades to the arena include: new baskets and rebranded playing surface in 2019, hallway graphics in 2019, new scoreboard and videoboard in 2018, new music/PA system and speakers in 2018, renovated restrooms in the summer of 2015 and updated graphics and a virtual Hall of Fame in the Rice hallways in the summer of 2013.

The gymnasium area seats approximately 2,500 for basketball games and volleyball matches. Named for John D. Rice, Wayne State College's president from 1951-56, Rice Auditorium was the site of the 1999 NCAA Division II North Central Regional Men's Basketball Championships, the 2006 Northern Sun Conference Red Baron Women's Basketball Classic and the 2012 NCAA Division II Central Regional Women's Basketball Championships.  Another special event hosted in Rice Auditorium was a spring volleyball match between Nebraska and Creighton in the spring of 2014 with proceeds from the event going to the Wayne Summer Sports Complex following destruction from the October, 2013 Wayne tornado.