Hoya Saxa! Georgetown Puts Awesome Kente on the Court

On June 9, 2016, we here at THE GLOBAL PHENOMENON penned an impassioned plea to the powers that be at Georgetown to put (visible) kente on the court at the then Verizon Center and now Capital One Arena. That post was in response to a Court Design Contest that the school held to pic a new design for Georgetown’s home court.

That contest brought a number of excellent court designs to the table for Georgetown to pick from, some posted below:

The designer of the above entries was then contacted by a member of the Georgetown athletics community that shall be nameless, who really liked the kente lane and asked whether he could tinker with the above designs (e.