EUGENE -- When Kelly Graves arrived at Oregon in 2014, the women's basketball program was in dire need of fixes.
He inherited a team with one winning record in its last seven seasons, zero top-five Pac-12 finishes in its last nine and a lone NCAA tournament appearance in its previous 10.
Faced with a rebuild, Graves could have chosen any number of areas in which to begin. But early on, he requested a facelift to the very last place anyone would have thought needed one: the 3-year-old, $227 million Matthew Knight Arena.
He called up some painters in Portland, who arrived to spruce up a wall in the locker room's lounge area.