Beach basketball? The new court Richard Pitino is leaving behind

The team at Florida International will be getting a new coach -- and a funky new basketball floor.

April 11, 2013 at 6:57PM
(The Minnesota Star Tribune)

If you've ever, by mistake or by design, channel surfed into a University of Oregon basketball game, you know that basketball courts are taking on the potential for a one-of-kind look well beyond corporate logos and team nicknames.

(The Minnesota Star Tribune)

Earlier this year, new Gophers coach Richard Pitino tweeted out a couple of design ideas for the home court at Florida International.

This was one of them:

The beach-towel look, however, seems to have lost out to something just a bit more subdued.

(The Minnesota Star Tribune)

So should the U turn Pitino loose on a new court design for The Barn?

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Howard Sinker

Digital Sports Editor

Howard Sinker is digital sports editor at startribune.com and curates the website's Sports Upload blog. He is also a senior instructor in Media and Cultural Studies at Macalester College in St. Paul.

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