Other College Basketball

[Barton Fink]

Forgot about the North Pulaski court! It was the awful rubber. Slick as all get out. 

[Spiderham]

I am certain back in the early 80's North Pulaski and Pulaski East (Jr High at Mills) had carpet.  It was WTF?
We played in a wooden gym with a wooden floor at Oak Grove.  It was like playing in the inside of a giant speaker.  Loud as hell.

[Loma]

You're thinking of Hatfield. Van-Cove as it was  called then had a very nice wooden court. Hatfield had one same as my high school Oden.  We were the only 2 in our conference that didn't have a wooden court. Tartan sucked..the astroturf of basketball.

Greetings from Paraloma.

[llhog]

It was dark green.  I clearly remember that.

Ever play in that cracker box at Umpire? 

Yes,they were also in our conference. They had different in bound lines because the out of bounds was virtually non existent. Fouche Valley was the same way.  I think Wintrop was as well but can't remember that one for sure.

[mr.zorak]

My mom played back in the 40's when it was 3 on 3.  She was quite the player and had a college scholarship offer to play basketball.  She married my dad instead...
I've got her old yearbook and newspaper clippings from where they would score like 12-14 points in a game and she would have like 10 of them.  There is a wood stove going in the background of one of the photos of her shooting a layup.

I appreciate Whyte Boar using the term "cracker box" in that I hadn't heard it in many years.  Summertown had a cracker box and all the seats were upstairs, like a gladiator pit.  Had a line painted on the side to make the inbounds guard stand behind it because there was about 18 inches of space between the side line and a wall.
Don't go more than one big step beyond the end line after your layup:  wall and doors.   I got loose and shot a layup there my senior year and got fouled hard.  I hit the floor and missed the hanging pad.  Slid into the door frame and hit my lower back.  Had quite the bruise on my hip.  I heard my momma cuss and threaten to whoop the shit out of the guy that took me down.

I miss momma.

[jdcatty]

My mom played back in the 40's when it was 3 on 3.  She was quite the player and had a college scholarship offer to play basketball.  She married my dad instead...
I've got her old yearbook and newspaper clippings from where they would score like 12-14 points in a game and she would have like 10 of them.  There is a wood stove going in the background of one of the photos of her shooting a layup.

I appreciate Whyte Boar using the term "cracker box" in that I hadn't heard it in many years.  Summertown had a cracker box and all the seats were upstairs, like a gladiator pit.  Had a line painted on the side to make the inbounds guard stand behind it because there was about 18 inches of space between the side line and a wall.
Don't go more than one big step beyond the end line after your layup:  wall and doors.   I got loose and shot a layup there my senior year and got fouled hard.  I hit the floor and missed the hanging pad.  Slid into the door frame and hit my lower back.  Had quite the bruise on my hip.  I heard my momma cuss and threaten to whoop the shit out of the guy that took me down.

I miss momma.

The old gym at Helena was somewhat like that-- very closed in and with the crowd seated up high and overlooking the court.  Was a pretty scary place in the early years after integration.

[Spiderham]

Lamar had a cracker box gym in the early 80's. The floor was so small you couldn't actually step out of bounds to take the ball out. They had another set of lines on the court for that. Spectators actually had to walk on the court to get to their seats.
Big pads were on the concrete walls right behind the basket.  Don't come driving in too fast or you might get driven into that wall.
I think our cafeteria was bigger that their entire gym.

We pressed the Lamar Warriors into oblivion on their tiny court.

[The Whyte Boar]

Yes,they were also in our conference. They had different in bound lines because the out of bounds was virtually non existent. Fouche Valley was the same way.  I think Wintrop was as well but can't remember that one for sure.

Winthrop had the incredible leaning gym.  I swear everything was off plumb and it had a visible lean.  They were also terrible.  I mean so terrible it was like playing a sixth grade B team.  It was no fun.  It would always turn into a fouling, hacking, traveling shit show and after you got up twenty or so, the refs would either quit caring or get overwhelmed by the sheer shittiness of it all and swallow the whistles.  It was awful.

[Spiderham]

https://x.com/cbitourney/status/2032114694350119109?s=46

What is LSU going to do now???

[Pighair]

I am certain back in the early 80's North Pulaski and Pulaski East (Jr High at Mills) had carpet.  It was WTF?
We played in a wooden gym with a wooden floor at Oak Grove.  It was like playing in the inside of a giant speaker.  Loud as hell.

I played against and at North Pulaski in 1986 and they had a weird rubber court at that time. I have video of it on VHS but I'm not sure OQ has a feature for me to click to upload from VHS.

I also played at some Junior High in downtown LR (Fuller maybe or Henderson??? IDK?). But this court had chunks missing out of it. You could dribble the ball hit the hole in the court and the ball would shoot out of bounds. Most of the court was good but there were actually chunks missing around midcourt. I can't believe they actually let us play on that court.

[Lurk]

Yes,they were also in our conference. They had different in bound lines because the out of bounds was virtually non existent. Fouche Valley was the same way.  I think Wintrop was as well but can't remember that one for sure.

The Wilmar gym was built so bad, it had literally six inches on the in bound lines. Half of your foot was inbounds throwing it in. There was no diving out of bounds to save a ball.

[Cornhogio]

Lamar had a cracker box gym in the early 80's. The floor was so small you couldn't actually step out of bounds to take the ball out. They had another set of lines on the court for that. Spectators actually had to walk on the court to get to their seats.
Big pads were on the concrete walls right behind the basket.  Don't come driving in too fast or you might get driven into that wall.
I think our cafeteria was bigger that their entire gym.

We pressed the Lamar Warriors into oblivion on their tiny court.

Dover's court when I played was built by the WPA.  We had that same three foot boundary between OB and the inbound defender.  Good times.

[Show-Me Hog]

Iowa St. is, in general, rampaging right now. Destroyed Arizona St. yesterday and destroying Texas Tech currently.

[The Whyte Boar]

Iowa St. is, in general, rampaging right now. Destroyed Arizona St. yesterday and destroying Texas Tech currently.

Maybe that will knock Tech down to a five and slide us up a notch.

[BleedinRed]

Come on Mizzou!

[llhog]

Winthrop had the incredible leaning gym.  I swear everything was off plumb and it had a visible lean.  They were also terrible.  I mean so terrible it was like playing a sixth grade B team.  It was no fun.  It would always turn into a fouling, hacking, traveling shit show and after you got up twenty or so, the refs would either quit caring or get overwhelmed by the sheer shittiness of it all and swallow the whistles.  It was awful.

They were really bad.  We were pretty mediocre my junior year and had them down at half 32-3.  Needless to say us starters didn't see the court in the 2nd half.

[llhog]

Maybe that will knock Tech down to a five and slide us up a notch.

We can only hope. They looked pretty bad in the 2nd half.

[TC]

Shirley that Tech beat down slides us up to a 4 seed. A win tomorrow over OU/A&M will put us at 24 wins vs their 22. At this point a 4 seed is ours to lose, and a win Saturday would cement it.

[llhog]

Shirley that Tech beat down slides us up to a 4 seed. A win tomorrow over OU/A&M will put us at 24 wins vs their 22. At this point a 4 seed is ours to lose, and a win Saturday would cement it.

You would think especially with the head to head win but common sense isn't so common.

[Show-Me Hog]

Kind of a quirk, 3 of the teams that beat us all losing in the same time slot in their conference tournaments:
Georgia
Duke
Houston


Doesn't mean they all will lose, Houston probably won't.