Florida Gulf Coast had nothing, so Baker bought a basketball floor and entertained the idea of the team playing in a local ice arena.
It's tempting to remember an exhausted, overcome Michael Jordan falling to the locker room floor in 1996, cradling the basketball, face down, sobbing.
Basketball moppers are given more leeway to mop the floor as needed, even if officials haven't requested it.
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The NCAA Tournament's greatest appeal is its buffet of David versus Goliath matchups, in which colleges of polar-opposite basketball pedigree and academic tradition meet on the hardwood floor.
Miami earned that seed this year based on what they did on the floor this year, despite the lack of basketball tradition.
In the color and milling about, my eye picks out a basketball-size cloud of pure white puffiness across the floor, a vision that turns out to be a giant Angora rabbit named Alice.
Watching the NCAA basketball tournament last March, perhaps you noticed that the floor at each game site was stripped of any preexisting reference to the host school, city or NBA team.
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This year, 3D Systems gave the company a run for its money, in the form of the portable Cube (which employees were carrying strapped to their chests while walking the show floor) and the CubeX, with its enormous basketball-sized build platform.
This high-octane basketball is perfectly suited to a point guard who can see the floor and make quick decisions.
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John Wooden's UCLA Bruins basketball teams, when Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Bill Walton roamed the floor, are harder to eliminate.
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Watch any college basketball game, and odds are you'll see a coach not only stalking the sideline but coming onto the floor to protest a call.
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