New Court

[otter]

The McLeod will be getting a new court before next season. Current court can’t be resanded any further. Sounds like it will be another tournament court, but not sure where it’s coming from. Design looked more or less the same as the current one.

[UNIdad]

Seems like we just got one. How long are floors supposed to last? And why all the sanding? I would think you would mostly be replacing the surface products, not working with the wood itself. But I have no idea.

[Born-a-Panther]

The current court is no longer usable... much too slippery.

[BCPanther]

Usage life of a court is 6-8 years. Current one was installed in 2011, it's time.

I'm good with a similar design just make the baseline writing gold instead of white and have it say 'UNI Panthers" instead of 'Northern Iowa'

Oh and replace the Valley logo with a Mountain West logo,

[UNIdad]

Usage life of a court is 6-8 years. Current one was installed in 2011, it's time.

I'm good with a similar design just make the baseline writing gold instead of white and have it say 'UNI Panthers" instead of 'Northern Iowa'

Oh and replace the Valley logo with a Mountain West logo,

6-8 years is probably about what it has been since the last one, particularly if we bought it used. I don't know anything about this, so I did a quick Google search. The first company I found offers a 40 year warranty! But that is if they do all the maintenance for 40 years. Ha.

"If we installed your floor, we offer a Lifetime Warranty Program that will warrant your wood floor for up to 40 years, as long as Sports Floors, Inc. is the only company who works on that floor (example: screen and recoat, sand, patch)."

In an SI article, it says 10 years for NBA floors, but with exemptions for longer.

"The NBA requires teams to replace the floor every 10 years, although one team has received annual waivers, making their floor last 19 years."

Do high schools replace theirs every 6 to 8 years? They would seem to take a much worse beating than college floors because of PE classes, dances, assemblies, etc.

[UNIdad]

More importantly, will we be able to buy squares of the old floor?

[Blue42]

Check me on this...I think we bought the current floor from the NCAA and it was the floor from the 2010 tourney games in OKC where we beat KU.

Correct?

I'd like to buy a piece of that.

[PantherFan]

I thought it was the floor from St. Louis and the Sweet 16 appearance.

[UNIdad]

Check me on this...I think we bought the current floor from the NCAA and it was the floor from the 2010 tourney games in OKC where we beat KU.

Correct?

I'd like to buy a piece of that.

And think of the great wins on this floor since then!

[sivert]

Wasn't it the St. Louis Sweet Sixteen floor?

[Born-a-Panther]

Wasn't it the St. Louis Sweet Sixteen floor?

I believe this is correct...

[BCPanther]

Wasn't it the St. Louis Sweet Sixteen floor?

Yes. I remember goofy ass Troy making jokes about how we were playing on our home floor.

Buying tourney floors is actually a good deal. You pay about 20k less than new and that includes the resurfacing and design and realistically they've had, at most, 6 games played on them. I'd imagine this one is from Omaha or Wichita.

[clenz]

Make the mid court logo the graphic they used for the signees yesterday.

[Blue42]

Wasn't it the St. Louis Sweet Sixteen floor?

Yeah...I think you're right.

We shoulda got the one from OKC...we were 2-0 on that one.

[in_the_stands]

Good deal as long as you can keep getting tournament floors. But seems odd that they can't be refinished and re-used. IIRC, when it was decided the original synthetic floor in the Dome was no longer acceptable, we bought the ancient floor that was occasionally used at the McElroy Auditorium and had it refurbished.