By Bret Strelow | App State Athletics
BOONE, N.C. — Entering the Holmes Convocation Center day after day, App State men's basketball coach Dustin Kerns and other members of his staff repeatedly pass the same enlarged photo before turning left toward their offices.
It's an image that captures the scene from the first game played in the facility way back in 2000, when a sold-out crowd accompanied North Carolina's house-warming visit to Boone.
There was still construction dust visible in back hallways that night with the building ready — just barely — for business.