North Texas Letting Fans Vote on New Floor

Via Uni-Watch (I beat Matt Rachmiel to the punch on this one 😉), the University of North Texas is letting fans vote on the school's new basketball court design. The options are shown here. The option that depicts the Texas state flag over the entire court, using different shades of green, is intriguing.

UPDATE (10/2/19): The winning design has been installed on the floor. It appears to combine elements of two of the designs in the contest: the "diving eagle" at center-court and the Texas flag in the keys.

New Court for Austin Peay

Via the usual sources, Austin Peay will have a new floor design this upcoming season. Compared to the previous court, which featured a lot of red, the new one will be much more conservative. You'll also notice that at midcourt of Austin Peay's floor, there is a Tennessee state-shape, with the "Governor" logo embedded within the state. The only other floor I can think of that includes a logo within a state-shape belongs to East Carolina (pirate imagery within the state of North Carolina).

New Court for Colorado Christian University

Via the usual sources, Colorado Christian University, an NCAA Division II school in Lakewood (outside Denver), has a new court design. We've seen courts with images of skylines and of mountains. This one gives us both!

New West Virginia Court (2019)

Via the usual sources, West Virginia will have a new floor design for next season. The new court will emphasize blue, as opposed to the yellow that dominated the previous court. There will also be a state outline at midcourt, defined through different shades of shellac (like Illinois, Nebraska, Ohio State, and Texas A&M [old and current]).

A video montage of all previous court designs at WVU Coliseum is available here.

New Robert Morris Court

With the U.S. college season now behind us, we're starting to seeing announcements of new court designs for next season.

First up is Robert Morris University in the Pittsburgh area. Frequent contributor Matt Rachmiel writes in (based on a link from Uni Watch) to share his characterization of RMU's new court:

"Very unusual that the sidelines are not the same color and that the color change is not at mid court."

10th Anniversary of the Basketball Courts Blog

Ten years (and one day) ago, this blog debuted with this post. Over the past decade, I (with help from guest-contributor extraordinaire Matt Rachmiel and others) have posted 222 entries. These have received 176,879 pageviews.

For a decade, we've been discussing matters such as painted-in vs. empty keys (discussed in the debut post); using different shades of shellac for different areas of the floor; huge center-court logos (mainly on college floors); state-shape logos at center court (at state universities); city skyline images on courts; and even scenic court motifs such as the beach or a forest.

What innovations will the next ten years bring? I have no idea, but whatever new trends emerge, we'll be here to cover them!

2019 NBA All-Star Game Court

Via the usual sources, a photo of the court for this year's NBA All-Star Game in Charlotte has been released. This Twitter thread of messages contains the court, would-be designers' alternative versions, past Charlotte Hornets floors, and past NBA All-Star Game floors.