The Physical Education Complex was built at a cost of $3.5 million.[1] The new facility added much-needed seating capacity and classroom space, as well as an Olympic-size swimming pool.[2] The first game in the complex was the final game of the 1974–75 men's basketball season.[3]
Nicknamed the "Scalping Grounds", stylized later as the Scalpin' Grounds, it was renamed in 1993 after Davey Whitney, who coached the Braves from 1969 to 1989.[4] Whitney returned to Alcorn for a second stint from 1996 to 2003, making him one of the few Division I coaches to have coached in an arena or stadium named for him.[5]