The St. Joseph's University Hawks have a wild new court design that had flown under my radar, so to speak, until today. I just happened to notice the court on a CBS Sports Network broadcast of the Duquesne at St. Joe's women's game from Philadelphia.
The Hagan Arena floor is not painted in at all inside the three-point arcs. However, on the rest of the court, there's hardly any place that's unpainted. Occupying the vast middle of the court are two Hawk images, a giant gray one and a crimson one that's merely large. Here's an article (with photo) on the development of the new design concept.
Noted Associate AD Amanda Hall in the linked article, “I’m fully acknowledging that it’s polarizing... Some people are going to love it, some people are going to hate it, but everybody’s going to notice it, and everybody’s going to know it’s St. Joe’s.”
Another view of the court, this one more straightforward and detailed, is available here on this game-program cover.
Saturday, January 18, 2020
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