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Practice Facility
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Wednesday, May 07, 2008 2:04 PM
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RE: Practice Facility
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Friday, May 16, 2008 12:41 PM
http://info.detnews.com/redesign/blogs/bigtenblog/index.cfm?blogid=1102 Athletic department officials are expected to continue their series of meetings with a Denver-based architect and others next week to discuss further details about the basketball facility. The architect has extensive experience in basketball venues and will keep the needs of men's coach John Beilein and women's coach Kevin Borseth in mind, Stevenson said. "Both coaches work a little differently," Stevenson said. "So we have to make sure that once it's built, it works and functions the way they want it." Plans for the basketball facility, expected to be built into an exisiting hill next to Crisler Arena, are expected to include two practice courts, offices, locker rooms and possibly a new weight room to replace the existing one in the venue, Stevenson said. "Essentially everything the coaches have asked for is going to be in the (practice) facility," Stevenson said. Renovations of Crisler Arena itself are still scheduled, but are expected to be done over a longer period of time. Work is expected to include a new sound system, roof and an enhanced concourse level in the coming years. The wrestling facility already has about $3.5 million worth of donations earmarked for construction. But funding for the basketball facility appears to have a way to go. "We're always being asked, 'How can a certain building be built before another one is built?," Stevenson said. "The answer: We have enough donations (for wrestling) and the donors that want to build it. "That's (an issue) that can get things out of order and taken out of context sometimes." Donations for basketball, or a lack thereof, don't appear to be a major roadblock for Bill Martin, the school's athletic director. Martin has said publicly he's committed to the effort and willing to have the department incur some debt to get the basketball facility built.
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