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The Bear nation recently got a new school logo, a new coach (Corliss Williamson) and now a new floor! (in progress)



Now let's hope they lose the giant grey wall on both sides and extend the seating to near courtside. That might be asking too much.

Updated photos of the renovations! Looking good!

Can you have those people come down and do something with Strahan Coliseum?

Logo is in progress.

UCABEAR wrote:Logo is in progress.

I sure hope so!

More progress. The white boxes are Southland logos. Bear paws on the corner also. Black walls are different and I'm going to need to get used to them.


Photo courtesy of a fan on ucafans.

UCABEAR wrote:More progress. The white boxes are Southland logos. Bear paws on the corner also. Black walls are different and I'm going to need to get used to them.


Photo courtesy of a fan on ucafans.

I hate to be like the "end zone seating" snobs for football stadiums but...


You need baseline seating BAD. The new floor looks great, but I've played in nicer high school gyms

We do need closer seating all around. However, there is a set of wooden bleachers that extends out on the left hand side of the court (in the picture they are pushed back) that provides seating for the pep band. We need more butts in the seats in general, and then we will see about nicer digs. The place isn't ideal, but the facelift helps.

THOSE ARE SOME NICE COLORS

Just about done:

Love the court.


UNI is getting a new floor this year. We bought the floor we played on in the S16. I can't wait to see if we put a new design on...I sure as hell hope we do.

UNI31f wrote:Love the court.


UNI is getting a new floor this year. We bought the floor we played on in the S16. I can't wait to see if we put a new design on...I sure as hell hope we do.

Post some pics when you get a chance! A new floor gives the fanbase a great new perspective of your school! Plus I'm a big hoops fan and love to visit other arenas and the ones I can't it 's neat to see them in photos. (especially new ones!)

UCABEAR wrote:

UNI31f wrote:Love the court.


UNI is getting a new floor this year. We bought the floor we played on in the S16. I can't wait to see if we put a new design on...I sure as hell hope we do.

Post some pics when you get a chance! A new floor gives the fanbase a great new perspective of your school! Plus I'm a big hoops fan and love to visit other arenas and the ones I can't it 's neat to see them in photos. (especially new ones!)

The new court isn't coming in until Aug 8th, or later, from what I understand. I would think we are getting it already finished though.

That's a bada$$ court Central Arkansas just got. Y'all should paint the arena walls black too...that'd make the place even more bada$$.

∞∞∞ wrote:That's a bada$$ court Central Arkansas just got. Y'all should paint the arena walls black too...that'd make the place even more bada$$.

You'll probably agree with me but ODU needs a new floor/court as well. It ain't bad but it could be better.

The new court is now going down in the McLeod Center.

I was right, it is coming in prepainted from the looks of it.

This is a tweeted photo from UNI's assistant AD for Athletic Communications Colin McDonough.

The court was fully installed in a day. I'll post some pictures one of the basketball coaches Tweeted throughout the day.

This is such an improvement that it isn't even funny. I'll try to post some before and after.

Here is what was just installed

This is what we had.


The Valley logos were Red, White, and Blue (the conference colors but it looked dumb having those colors on our court). The logo was much smaller, and the court just looked bad I thought

UNI has a brilliant arena design for small time college basketball. its kinda like UW's

weber state got a new jumbo tron



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the old one was about the same size just ghetto and no LED display or LCD screens also no LED ring at the top or LED scorer's table.

BlackFalkin wrote:UNI has a brilliant arena design for small time college basketball. its kinda like UW's

I agree. If Sac State can ever raise the finds for a new arena, they should take a look at UNI's and do something similar.

WSU's new jumbotron looks eerily similar to the old one; however I am sure the new technology will make it look a lot better. Whenever I watched a WSU home game on Big Sky TV, they would show WSU's jumbotron with the score for the duration of halftime and it always looked like something straight from a Sega Genesis game.

UNI31f wrote:This is what we had.


The Valley logos were Red, White, and Blue (the conference colors but it looked dumb having those colors on our court). The logo was much smaller, and the court just looked bad I thought

That's real nice bro, I like that.

I agree. UNI has a nice court. I love the windows on the upper deck that lets all the light in. Sweet. Plus the floor level seating. Just a wide open clean look that students should be proud to attend games in. Wish UCA would lose the walls and the gothic black look and open Farris Center up to some sunlight.