NCAA floors....

[BillBrasky4Cy]

I believe this is mostly correct. Last I knew the Regional and Final Four floors were new each year and this applied but the NCAA owns floors for the first weekend sites that they store and reuse every year.

No they don't they are new floors each year. The floors are sold at a discount.

 

[SCNCY]

I always thought the floors were donated to high schools.

 

[VeloClone]

No they don't they are new floors each year. The floors are sold at a discount.

That is true for the regional and FF floors. The Dayton and first weekend floors are stored and used again.

"Every year, the NCAA contracts for freshly made courts to be installed at its tournament sites. Only the nine from the first weekend of games, from the First Four in Dayton to the opening rounds in Portland, Ore., are used again — disassembled and kept in storage in Salt Lake City and Amasa, Mich."

After March Madness fades, NCAA Tournament floors find new life

Some teams buy tournament floors and use them as their own

www.nj.com

 

[Saul_T]

I could be completely off, but I thought UNI bought the floor they beat Kansas on to get to the Sweet Sixteen.

 

[NWICY]

Why do they even need new floors couldn't you just put new graphics over the current ones? I have no idea how floor graphics are done.

 

[1UNI2ISU]

I could be completely off, but I thought UNI bought the floor they beat Kansas on to get to the Sweet Sixteen.

Bought the floor that they lost to Michigan State on.

The current floor was used for a 2018 women's regional.

 

[Saul_T]

Bought the floor that they lost to Michigan State on.

The current floor was used for a 2018 women's regional.

I knew it was one of the two. Was at that game in STL, an incredible game and an incredible opportunity.

 

[Cyclonepride]

The floor board wasn't loose. These floors are designed to have some give to them so the players joints don't absorb the full shock like if they laid them directly on top of concrete. If anything, that floor made it possible for Bacot to play as well as he did. All NBA floors do that same thing.

My guess is that it was his already severely sprained ankle and the shoes he was wearing that led to him rolling his ankle. They had a guard roll his ankle in those same shoes.

From the court manufacturer: https://www.espn.com/mens-college-b...r-armando-bacot-was-injured-says-manufacturer

Yep. Different floor systems have different levels of shock absorbent pads (depending on how much bounce or how rigid you want it to be). The whole section went down (and sprung back up). A loose board would look entirely different (an individual strip or two would go down in a linear fashion).

Our company has been contracted to do site monitoring of these floors a couple times.

 

[Cyclonepride]

Why do they even need new floors couldn't you just put new graphics over the current ones? I have no idea how floor graphics are done.

Typically the floor is sanded, sealed, and then the graphics and lines are painted, with finish coats on top of that.

 

[randomfan44]

Yep. Different floor systems have different levels of shock absorbent pads (depending on how much bounce or how rigid you want it to be). The whole section went down (and sprung back up). A loose board would look entirely different (an individual strip or two would go down in a linear fashion).

Our company has been contracted to do site monitoring of these floors a couple times.

At least Carolina fans aren't whining about the refs like most teams that lose big games. So I give them that.

This whole floor thing is mostly a situation where people have never given the floor a moment of thought and since it is rarely zoomed in on in a replay, have never noticed that it does this by design to help prevent injury. When you don't know something, t can be pretty easy to fill in the lack of info with a lot of incorrect emotion-based assumptions.

 

[cyfanatic]

Reminds me of the episode of Cheers where they go into Boston Garden to count the screws in the floor and the very next game someone from the Celtics get hurt.

Kevin McHale...right?

 

[simply1]

The floor board wasn't loose. These floors are designed to have some give to them so the players joints don't absorb the full shock like if they laid them directly on top of concrete. If anything, that floor made it possible for Bacot to play as well as he did. All NBA floors do that same thing.

My guess is that it was his already severely sprained ankle and the shoes he was wearing that led to him rolling his ankle. They had a guard roll his ankle in those same shoes.

From the court manufacturer: https://www.espn.com/mens-college-b...r-armando-bacot-was-injured-says-manufacturer

Damn, Kansas even got Adidas to sabotage Nike’s Carina shoes!

 

[randomfan44]

Damn, Kansas even got Adidas to sabotage Nike’s Carina shoes!

Two different Carolina players rolled ankles in the game without stepping on someone's foot. It wasn't a great day for Jordan Brand shoes in my opinion. Not as bad as Zion blowing the sole off his Nikes but a bad day performance wise. Bacot's shoe looked super stiff.

 

[NWICY]

Kevin McHale...right?

I can't remember who just remember the episode. But that makes since because he was in a few episodes.

 

[simply1]

Two different Carolina players rolled ankles in the game without stepping on someone's foot. It wasn't a great day for Jordan Brand shoes in my opinion. Not as bad as Zion blowing the sole off his Nikes but a bad day performance wise. Bacot's shoe looked super stiff.

Exactly, nothing is out of reach of the KU Adidas mafia.

 

[randomfan44]

Exactly, nothing is out of reach of the KU Adidas mafia.

The "Adidas mafia" is like the Jersey Shore version of The Godfather.