The NCAA Floor in Boston.
 

Has anybody noticed that the NCAA floor in Boston is parqay (I think that is how its spelled, but I think its butter, LOL.). All the other NCAA courts used for the last two weekends have aren't.

MTD, Sr.

Definitely an homage to the traditional floor at the Boston Garden

Probably some type of requirement in order for them to use the building.

We New Englanders wouldn't have the floor any other way.

Oh, it's "Parquet."

It's not nice to fool mother nature
 

Rule #1 of multi-use arenas. Never screw around with a basketball floor laid down over an ice rink.

Never.

Use the floor they always use.

Unless you want a lesson in all kinds of stuff involving condensation, wet bulbs, dew points, and fog.

The floor in question is NOT "the floor they always use"...it is simply a parquet floor that pays homage to the tradition of the Boston Garden past and present parquet floors.

Probably have the "Celtic rims", too.

And The Air Conditioning Probably Actually Works ...
 

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

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?

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

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.

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.

That is what I had heard as well.

Peace