When folks are looking for a place to vacation, maybe they consult well-traveled friends. When they’re looking for a place to eat, maybe they ask their favorite foodie or consult Yelp.



The bottom line, when you’re looking for the best, it’s usually good to ask the experts, the true connoisseurs with experience and discerning tastes.



We’re taking the same approach to find the best college basketball venue in America.



Athlon Sports polled a dozen college basketball media members — both writers and broadcasters, professional journalists and former players and coaches — on their top arenas. We asked each to rank their top in terms of atmosphere, experience and amenities. In short, where would they recommend fans go to see a game.



Athlon tabulated all of their ballots, giving each No. 1 10 points all the way to one point for No. 10.



Some of the results were surprising. Some were not. While we expected Kansas’ Allen Fieldhouse and Duke’s Cameron Indoor Stadium to be the top two, we were taken aback at how much separation there would be between those two and the rest of the field. Indeed, Kansas and Duke were the only arenas to appear on all 12 ballots.



We were pleased to see the diversity in picks, too, beyond just our top 10. Our panel picked arenas form coast to coast, stadiums from major conferences and the mid-major ranks, and venues old and new.



Slideshow: Images from the Top 10 Arenas



Here were the final results:



Complete Results: Athlon Sports’ College Basketball Arena Experts Poll Arena School Points (first-place) 1. Allen Fieldhouse Kansas 115 (9) 2. Cameron Indoor Stadium Duke 105 (1) 3. Hinkle Fieldhouse Butler 58 (1) 4. Rupp Arena Kentucky 50 5. Assembly Hall Indiana 49 6. Breslin Center Michigan State 37 7. The Palestra Penn/Philadelphia Big 5 35 8. Madison Square Garden St. John's/Big East Tourney 34 (1) 9. The Pit New Mexico 31 10. Gallagher-Iba Arena Oklahoma State 24

College Basketball Arena Experts Poll: Individual Ballots Jay Bilas, ESPN

1. Allen Fieldhouse, Kansas

2. Cameron Indoor Stadium, Duke

3. Breslin Center, Michigan State

4. Rupp Arena, Kentucky

5. Assembly Hall, Indiana

6. Hinkle Fieldhouse, Butler

7. Kohl Center, Wisconsin

8. UD Arena, Dayton

9. Carrier Dome, Syracuse

10. Gallagher-Iba Arena, Oklahoma State Rob Dauster, College Basketball Talk

1. Allen Fieldhouse, Kansas

2. Cameron Indoor Stadium, Duke

3. Hinkle Fieldhouse, Butler

4. Gallagher-Iba Arena, Oklahoma State

5. The Palestra, Penn

6. The Pit, New Mexico

7. Assembly Hall, Indiana

8. McKale Center, Arizona

9. Breslin Center, Michigan State

10. Rupp Arena, Kentucky Mike DeCourcy, The Sporting News

1. Allen Fieldhouse, Kansas

2. Cameron Indoor Stadium, Duke

3. Madison Square Garden

4. McKale Center, Arizona

5. Williams Arena, Minnesota

6. Rupp Arena, Kentucky

7. Breslin Center, Michigan State

8. Hinkle Fieldhouse, Butler

9. Alaska Airlines Arena, Washington

10. Gallagher-Iba Arena, Oklahoma State Pat Forde, Yahoo Sports

1. Hinkle Fieldhouse, Butler

2. Cameron Indoor Stadium, Duke

3. KFC Yum! Center, Louisville

4. Allen Fieldhouse, Kansas

5. Assembly Hall, Indiana

6. Dean Smith Center, North Carolina

7. Rupp Arena, Kentucky

8. Fifth Third Arena, Cincinnati

9. Breslin Center, Michigan State

10. Thompson Boling Arena, Tennessee Fran Fraschilla, ESPN

1. Allen Fieldhouse, Kansas

2. Assembly Hall, Indiana

3. Cameron Indoor Stadium, Duke

4. The Palestra, Penn

5. Hinkle Fieldhouse, Butler

6. Carrier Dome, Syracuse

7. Breslin Center, Michigan State

8. The Pit, New Mexico

9. Hilton Coliseum, Iowa State

10. Gallagher-Iba Arena, Oklahoma State Jeff Goodman, ESPN

1. Allen Fieldhouse, Kansas

2. Cameron Indoor Stadium, Duke

3. Rupp Arena, Kentucky

4. McCarthey Athletic Center, Gonzaga

5. Hinkle Fieldhouse, Butler

6. Viejas Arena, San Diego State

7. The Pit, New Mexico

8. Charles Koch Arena, Wichita State

9. Comcast Center, Maryland

10. CenturyLink Center, Creighton Seth Greenberg, ESPN

1. Madison Square Garden

2. Allen Fieldhouse, Kansas

3. Rupp Arena, Kentucky

4. Cameron Indoor Stadium, Duke

5. McKale Center, Arizona

6. Carrier Dome, Syracuse

7. Assembly Hall, Indiana

8. Breslin Center, Michigan State

9. The Pit, New mexico

10. Dean Smith Center, North Carolina Jason King, Bleacher Report

1. Allen Fieldhouse, Kansas

2. Assembly Hall, Indiana

3. Cameron Indoor, Duke

4. Carrier Dome, Syracuse

5. The Pit, New Mexico

6. Gallagher-Iba Arena, Oklahoma State

7. McCarthey Athletic Center, Gonzaga

8. Rupp Arena, Kentucky

9. Charles Koch Arena, Wichita State

10. Kohl Center, Wisconsin Dave LaMont, ESPN

1. Allen Fieldhouse, Kansas

2. Cameron Indoor Stadium, Duke

3. Madison Square Garden

4. Charles Koch Arena, Wichita State

5. The Pit, New Mexico

6. Hinkle Fieldhouse, Butler

7. The Palestra, Penn

8. Pauley Pavilion, UCLA

9. Assembly Hall, Indiana

10. Cole Field House, Maryland Matt Norlander, CBSSports.com

1. Cameron Indoor Stadium, Duke

2. Allen Fieldhouse, Kansas

3. Hinkle Fieldhouse, Duke

4. Assembly Hall, Indiana

5. The Palestra, Penn

6. Breslin Center, Michigan State

7. Gallagher-Iba Arena, Oklahoma State

8. The Pit, New Mexico

9. Carrier Dome, Syracuse

10. Rupp Arena, Kentucky Eric Prisbell, USA Today

1. Allen Fieldhouse, Kansas

2. Cameron Indoor Stadium, Duke

3. Madison Square Garden

4. Hinkle Fieldhouse, Butler

5. Rupp Arena, Kentucky

6. Breslin Center, Michigan State

7. The Palestra, Penn

8. Kohl Center, Wisconsin

9. Assembly Hall, Indiana

10. Peterson Event Center, Pittsburgh Dick “Hoops” Weiss, BlueStar Media

1. Allen Fieldhouse, Kansas

2. Cameron Indoor Stadium, Duke

3. The Palestra, Penn

4. Rupp Arena, Kentucky

5. Joyce Center, Notre Dame

6. Gallagher-Iba Arena, Oklahoma State

7. Breslin Center, Michigan State

8. Dean Smith Center, North Carolina

9. The Pit, New Mexico

10. McCarthey Athletic Center, Gonzaga

Slideshow: Images from the Top 10 Arenas