It’s become trendy for college basketball programs to trick up their court designs in recent years. But Wednesday, we learned that the Texas Tech basketball program has gone the opposite way when redesigning the court at United Supermarkets Arena.
Doing away with the old design, which featured wood-stained lanes, a wood-stained state of Texas at center court, and red baselines and sidelines, the program has gone over to the dark side. The new design features black lanes, 3-point lines, baselines, and sidelines while doing away with the state of Texas at center court. It also appears that the Double-T at center court is enlarged (though it may just look that way standing by itself and not over the outline of the state) and that the overall color of the hardwood is lighter.