Washington State Court with Some Novel Features

Via the usual sources, Washington State University will have a new court this season. Two features are of note:

• When we've seen horizontal-strip geographic motifs (skylines, mountain ranges, etc.) on courts in the past, they have appeared along the lower sideline. WSU's, which depicts landmarks throughout the state ("the Cascade Mountains, the Seattle skyline, the Ed Hendler Cable Bridge that spans the Columbia River, the Riverfront Park Pavilion and Clock Tower and the Bryan Clock Tower"), will appear midway up the court, from one key to the other.
• With the men's three-point line being moved further out this season and the women's staying put, most schools will probably paint two different lines, in different colors. WSU's approach will be a little different. The area inside the men's (more distant) three-point arc will be filled in with a single shade of shellac, surrounded by a white line. There will also be a white line denoting the women's arc, giving the men's arc the appearance of being extra-thick. The closest analogy I can think of is from a former UNC-Charlotte court.

UMass Amherst... and UMass Boston

Via the usual sources, the University of Massachusetts (Amherst) will be switching from a parquet floor to one featuring a uniformly light shade of wood with a large shape of the state in a darker shade of shellac. A carryover element from the old court to the new will be a large U, with MASS superimposed, at center-court.

Quite by accident, while I was searching for images of the UMass court, I came upon the unusual court design for the UMass-Boston branch campus. As seen in the video at this link, the bulk of the court is solid blue (except for inside the three-point arcs), with a giant Beacon logo in the middle of the court.