mabrowndog said:
I really loathe these elevated courts. Nothing is worse than Vanderbilt's but this one is awful nonetheless.
Once they changed the orientation of the courts in football stadiums, they had to elevate them. They used to put them in one of the end zones and build bleachers on the other side. Now. they put them on the 50 yard line and they have to elevate them to make it work. It is especially absurd in Houston. You may remember the 2011 final four was there and nobody could shoot. Everyone scored 50 points. Butler made like 11 baskets in the final. I went to that final four and the set up was absurd. Hard to describe. It looked like an elevated post card floating on a sea of people. A basketball court basically takes up the space between the 35s on a 120 yard football field, and Houston is a fifa compluant soccer stadium built that way to try to woo the world cup. It's cavernous. For this regional, they have the curtains up so it's better now, but they still have the elevated court.
Happily the NCAA after a five year experiment of putting one or two regionals in a football stadium each year is going back to all basketball arenas prior to the final four, I believe, for at least the next three years.
