Athlon: 12 experts pick best college hoops venues

[JarHeadJim]

Athlon asked 12 guys to pick the 10 best college basketball arenas. Allen Fieldhouse was the runaway winner with 9 first place votes.
http://athlonsports.com/college-basketball/college-basketball-arena-poll-all-12-individual-ballots

 

[orangefan13]

Kansas and Cameron have that gloomy blue color, Cuse has a bright emphatic orange.

Whats so great about Cameron, The name duke is on it?

Butlers stadium looks like a semi-enlarged barn/combination high school gym.
I can just see the $$ flowing from that picture.

 

[Dave85]

Athlon asked 12 guys to pick the 10 best college basketball arenas. Allen Fieldhouse was the runaway winner with 9 first place votes.
http://athlonsports.com/college-basketball/college-basketball-arena-poll-all-12-individual-ballots

It would be interesting to see the ones with the best home court advantage, average, and median. It's a little know fact but the local sheriff will arrest the referees at Cameron stadium if they do not call the game the "right" way!

 

[Madbiker]

I'll bet that all these guys who left the Carrier Dome off the list have never attended a game there.

 

[shermstheman]

I'll bet that all these guys who left the Carrier Dome off the list have never attended a game there.

Or maybe they did and couldn't get used to the pee troughs.

 

[Orangeyes]

Only five of the 12 had the Carrier Dome in their top 10 Bilas & Norlander (9) Fraschilla & Greenberg(6) & Jason King gave the Dome it's highest rating at (4)

Dauster, DeCourcy, Forde, Goodman, LaMont, Prisbell & Hoops Weiss probably couldn't get a sniff from Newhouse.

UConn & Rutgers nowhere to be found. Dean Smith Center with three mentions, The Yum Center & Peterson with one.

 

[Brooky03]

This is a poor list.

The experts should feel bad

 

[Ragman2000]

Or maybe they did and couldn't get used to the pee troughs.

Then they get the guillotine. Or public hanging. Perhaps a good stoning. Heretics.

 

[HOFCeluck]

The dome is as overrated for basketball as it is underrated for football.

ETA: I never want to get rid of it. Great for our identity and for recruiting.

 

[Cowtown]

I've only been to Cameron on that list, and it's freaking beautiful, inside and out. Believe it.

 

[EastCoast2]

These "experts" don't know much more about college basketball than they do about fornicating.

 

[djcon57]

I'm outraged.

If I was ranking them, the dome would be #1!

USA! USA! USA!

 

[DNABB5]

Then they get the guillotine. Or public hanging. Perhaps a good stoning. Heretics.

Or, OR, They could be girls. They get their own room for a trough.

Squat toilets

 

[stuckinbig11]

I've only been to Cameron on that list, and it's freaking beautiful, inside and out. Believe it.

beautiful high school gym

 

[stuckinbig11]

It would be interesting to have vote for who is truly an expert. I would vote for Bilas but never heard of some of those guys.

 

[Trueblue25]

The Dome's a football place. It's an absolute shame that we can't fill it.

The venue for basketball is amazing, probably a top 10 but I don't know about top 5. Depends on the game.

 

[CusefanATL]

Only five of the 12 had the Carrier Dome in their top 10 Bilas & Norlander (9) Fraschilla & Greenberg(6) & Jason King gave the Dome it's highest rating at (4)

Dauster, DeCourcy, Forde, Goodman, LaMont, Prisbell & Hoops Weiss probably couldn't get a sniff from Newhouse.

UConn & Rutgers nowhere to be found. Dean Smith Center with three mentions, The Yum Center & Peterson with one.

Shocking who put voted for the yum center. Actually impressed he didn't make it #1

 

[newmexicuse]

Manley Field House should have made the list - we should do one nostalgia game per season there - it would be bonkers !!!

 

[Marsh01]

Lol Pat Forde. Is there a bigger douche in the industry than him?

Pat Forde, Yahoo Sports
1. Hinkle Fieldhouse, Butler
2. Cameron Indoor Stadium, Duke
3. KFC Yum! Center, Louisville
4. Allen Fieldhouse, Kansas
5. Assembly Hall, Indiana
6. Dean Smith Center, North Carolina
7. Rupp Arena, Kentucky
8. Fifth Third Arena, Cincinnati
9. Breslin Center, Michigan State
10. Thompson Boling Arena, Tennessee

 

[BuffOrange]

Lol Pat Forde. Is there a bigger douche in the industry than him?

Yes. Douches in the industry are like the '85 Big East - it's a very competitive field.

 

[690West]

Manley Field House should have made the list - we should do one nostalgia game per season there - it would be bonkers !!!

I'd love to see Dajuan in helmet and shoulder pads.