MURFREESBORO, Tenn. – Rain drizzled down as the sunlight began to creep below the view of the giant windows that bestow the "glass house" nickname upon the Murphy Center. UNC-Asheville's women's basketball team stepped off their bus and headed down the tunnel inside the arena to take on Middle Tennessee in the final game at the Murphy Center in 2018.
It was a year in which the arena saw a team clinch Conference USA's No. 1 seed heading into the conference tournament, high school teams raise the coveted gold ball after Tennessee state basketball championships and thousands of young men and women reach their dreams by walking across the graduation stage.