College Courts Catching My Eye Early in 2019-20

Two court designs have caught my eye at this early point in the 2019-20 college basketball season.

• It had seemed to me that huge center-court logos were losing popularity compared to a few years ago. No one told that to Louisville, however. A large "Dunking Cardinal" image now adorns the court at the KFC Yum! Center.
• Coastal Carolina's court, which actually was introduced before the 2018-19 season, presents a nice combination of a shellac-based shape of the state of South Carolina, with the school's Chanticleer logo overlaid.

Will Memphis Tigers' New Court Earn Its Stripes?

Via the usual sources, the University of Memphis has a new court for the Tigers, shown here. The design is one of the gaudiest you'll see. The idea of tiger stripes -- let alone ones colored in light and royal blue -- to fill in the keys is pretty inventive. However, keeping the areas inside the three-point arcs a conventional wood color and painting the entire area between the arcs light-blue doesn't work for me.