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4 unusual facts about Rochester Zeniths


Rochester Zeniths

The Zeniths were coached by local product Mauro Panaggio, a successful Division III basketball coach at SUNY Brockport and featured many former prominent Western New York college basketball players, most notably guard Glenn Hagan from St. Bonaventure and forward Larry Fogle from Canisius College (both had been second round NBA Draft picks).

These "neutral site" games were common during this period of the NBA (for instance, Wilt Chamberlain's historic 100 point performance occurred in Hershey, Pennsylvania, a regular site for NBA games) but they were not particularly well attended and definitely not popular with the players and coaches as they added more travel to

They played in Henrietta, New York, a suburb of Rochester at the Dome Arena and in downtown Rochester, New York at (what is now known as) the Blue Cross Arena at the War Memorial.

For the 1978-1979 basketball season, the Zeniths joined the newly renamed Continental Basketball Association (formerly known as the "Eastern League") and played most of their home games at the Dome Arena at the Monroe County Fairgrounds in Henrietta, New York.



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