Towson’s Oregon-esque new floor will feature tiger stripes
It took all of one season for Oregon's crazy new floor to inspire its first imitator.
Hoping to generate some of the same buzz the Ducks did when they installed their iconic orange and tan fir tree-framed floor at Matthew Knight Arena last year, Towson University is giving its basketball court a similarly splashy makeover. Orange watermark tiger stripes on the floor will provide the signature element in addition to new baseline logos and a new "Tiger Paw" mark at the scorer's table.
Towson will install the freshly painted and finished floor in time for the start of the 2011-12 school year and then will move it over to its $68 million, 5,200-seat new arena when it opens in 2013. Newly hired coach Pat Skerry and his staff believe the new-look floor will provide them an edge in recruiting as they look to rebuild a program that went 4-26 a year ago and lost every game it played in the Colonial Athletic Association.
It's better than Oregon's. Anyway, this is really going to turn around that program at Towson.
Tiowson is pumping a lot of money into this new arena and the new coach. He's getting 2-3 star players Towson has never even attempted to look at before and in short time. If he can coach in game and knows his X's and O's, we could be competitive in a year or so.
"Elaine, you're from Baltimore, right?"
"Yes, well, Towson actually."
ODUalum11 wrote:
It's better than Oregon's. Anyway, this is really going to turn around that program at Towson.
Tiowson is pumping a lot of money into this new arena and the new coach. He's getting 2-3 star players Towson has never even attempted to look at before and in short time. If he can coach in game and knows his X's and O's, we could be competitive in a year or so.
Towson being competitive will only benefit the CAA as well. If Towson can have a successful bball program who knows how much better the conference could be.
