Practice Facility Facts • Project Cost: $13,913,000 • Ground broken on July 1, 2008 • Contractors: Guy Hopkins Construction of Baton Rouge based on the designs by the firm of Tom Holden Architects of Baton Rouge in a joint venture with RDG Sports of Des Moines, Iowa • Total Project Area: 58,960 square feet of new construction and 1,100 square feet of renovated construction • Two state-of-the-art practice gyms each spanning 11,324 square feet; includes a regulation NCAA court in length with two regulation high school courts in the opposite direction • Each gym has two portable goals and four overhead retractable goals; both are exact replicas of the PMAC competition court • Each gym can hold up to 800 people for special events • Each gym features a scoreboard, video filming balcony and scorer’s table with video and date connections to enable instant replay • A central two story lobby and grand staircase ascends to the second level. The lobby showcases team displays and graphics, trophy cases and memorabilia from the past. The displays and wall graphics were designed by ZE Design of Centerville, Ohio.
The dressing room rotunda and this brilliant Tiger logo leads one into the LSU Lockerroom.
• On the second level of the facility is the Legends Club that opens to an extension of the Maravich Center concourse. It can hold approximately 500 people for pre-game and post-game functions. • Other areas of the addition include a Media Interview Area, Men’s Basketball Locker Room, Team Lounge, Training Room, Laundry Facility, Coach’s Locker Room and storage areas.
This wall spotlights LSU’s eight SEC player of the year honorees.
First-team All-Americans from Sparky Wade in 1935 to Ben Simmons in 2016 are also highlighted in the walk down the hallway. New Pictures on this page of these things
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Another mural spotlights LSU’s three “NBA at 50” players -- Bob Pettit, Shaquille O’Neal and Pete Maravich.
2021-22 MEN’S BASKETBALL RECORD BOOK
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