The NCAA Floor in Boston.

[26 Year Gap]

Probably have the "Celtic rims", too.

[BillyMac]

Parquet floor, or no parquet floor, this will never have the mystic of the "real" Boston Garden. Never.

[jump stop]

Are they using the Celtics floor with stickers over the the Celtic logos???? must be , no way they buy a new floor for 2 days of games, what is the cost of removable floor 300k?

[BktBallRef]

Originally Posted by jump stop

Are they using the Celtics floor with stickers over the the Celtic logos???? must be , no way they buy a new floor for 2 days of games, what is the cost of removable floor 300k?

No, they are not. All the floors have a black OOB border and the same logos. The wood is the same except the floor that was used in Boston.

The NCAA has an $11 billion TV deal. Spending $2-$4 million on 14 floors is no big deal. They can easily be stored and used year after year.

[Rich]

Originally Posted by BktBallRef

No, they are not. All the floors have a black OOB border and the same logos. The wood is the same except the floor that was used in Boston.

The NCAA has an $11 billion TV deal. Spending $2-$4 million on 14 floors is no big deal. They can easily be stored and used year after year.

IIRC, the mention above is correct -- they don't store the floors, they sell them to universities every year at a significant discount from the cost of a new floor.

[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by GROUPthink

IIRC, the mention above is correct -- they don't store the floors, they sell them to universities every year at a significant discount from the cost of a new floor.

That is what I had heard as well.

Peace

[Nevadaref]

So the NCAA can afford to take a $30,000 to $40,000 loss times 13 floors each year, but it won't do a significant bump in the pay for the tournament officials?
Also which schools get these new floors each year? Is there a process for allocating them, if more than 13 schools wish to buy?
Seems what the NCAA is doing could be viewed as subsidizing certain programs, but not others. Is there fairness here?

[OldFanDan]

Originally Posted by JRutledge

That is what I had heard as well.

The NCAA also builds two floors exactly alike for the Final 4 (the second one is set up in Bracket Town, which operates during Final 4 week in the host city each year).

At the conclusion of the tournament the winning school is given the option of buying one or both of these floors. Most do; some schools install them in practice facilities and some others have cut up the floors and sold pieces of them as mementos.

One of the floors from a championship site where DUKE won a title is still in use at the Emily Krzyzewski Center in Durham, NC.

[bainsey]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

Parquet floor, or no parquet floor, this will never have the mystic of the "real" Boston Garden. Never.

Ask the players what they'd rather have: mystique or air conditioning.

[tw1ns]

They are all new floors... The University of Northern Iowa actually purchased a floor after the tourney was over and installed it in the McCleod Center where they play.
UNI beat the University of Kansas, the No. 1 seed in the tournament, 69-67, in Oklahoma City to advance to the Sweet 16. They then lost to Michigan State University, 59-52, in St. Louis.
The new floor cost $105,000 to purchase, paint and install, about $30,000 to $40,000 less than market value, Dannen said.