The restrooms. Everyone remembers the restrooms and walking down stairs during a basketball game to face leaky, broken plumbing at Henry Levitt Arena.
"It was a dungeon," said Bob Geist, a prominent Wichita State athletics booster.
"It was time to do something," said Kirk Seminoff, then sports editor of The Wichita Eagle and a former Wichita State athletics beat writer. "The urinals were eroding."
Not just urinals. Not just locker rooms or the cramped study spaces and offices.
Shocker basketball's success of the 1980's and passion from fans deteriorated as the 1990s wore on.
In an instant, it seemed, Wichita State basketball fell from its high points in the 1960s and 1980s.