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Sunday, March 6, 2022

Pac 12 Tournament Court May Be Most Confusing I've Ever Seen

The Pac 12 women's championship game is currently underway in Las Vegas. All I can say about the court design (which may or may not also be used for the conference's upcoming men's tourney) is that, unless you are intimately familiar with the Pac 12's logo, most of the court will leave you wondering "What is that?" Here's a screenshot from Twitter...

In the center-circle, you'll notice the rounded-triangular Pac 12 logo, which features an arched "PAC" across the top and a "12" below it. What would happen if you blew up the logo by about 100 times (so big the logo could not be contained by the court) and converted the blue and white to different shades of shellac? That's what you see to the left and right of the center-circle. 

Perhaps the Pac 12's inspiration was the SEC, with its shellac-based logo (below). I personally don't find the SEC's court all that attractive, but at least the full SEC logo is self-contained within the court and thus comprehensible to viewers.