Post by 01- PirateDave on Apr 7, 2015 18:10:17 GMT -6
Greg Kampe tweets a photo of Oakland’s new blacktop floor
Terrence Payne Apr 7, 2015, 8:00 PM EDT
The court isn’t quite done yet. The 3-point and out-of-bounds lines (both white) are still covered with tape. The new court design season has officially begun. On Tuesday, Oakland head coach Greg Kampe tweeted a picture of the new floor at the Athletics Center O’rena.
The blacktop look isn’t where Kampe wanted to stop.
“We looked at trying to get the nets colored black (or) grey like chain-link nets, but there’s a rule that the nets have to be white,” Kampe told Rod Beard of the Detroit News. “We have graduation (in three weeks) and it has to be done before graduation, so we’re hoping that within the next 10 days it’s done.”
We’ve seen schools follow other designs over the last few years. George Washington, Memphis and Washington have all gone with the skyline look. Looks like Oakland is following UCF’s lead, which went with the blacktop look in 2013. Last summer, Northern Illinois also went with a mostly blacktop floor.
good luck to all!