ESPN article on construction of wood floor for Final Four

[Roger Marty]

I thought some of you might enjoy this article:

http://www.espn.com/espn/feature/story/_/id/18985386/from-tree-tipoff

[Bill Space]

Interesting, But hard to believe they only get 20 ft.² out of each tree!

9800 square feet divided by 500 trees = 19.8 sq. Ft. Per tree harvested.

Cannot imagine that to be correct but perhaps they are very selective in the grain orientation,etc

Bill

[scott vroom]

Floor used for 3 games. Wonder what they did with it after the tournament?

[Ellen Benkin]

I may have missed this,but how far in advance did they cut the wood for the floor. Certainly it had to "sit" for awhile. Too bad the final game was so lousy.

[Jim Becker]

Floor used for 3 games. Wonder what they did with it after the tournament?

I believe it's been stored away, but thought I read that the winner has the option to acquire it.

[Chuck Skarsaune]

I believe it's been stored away, but thought I read that the winner has the option to acquire it.

Stored away for what?!? It's marked with the date and location - not like it'll be used again.

I'm pretty disturbed by the waste of 500 trees for 3 games of basketball. Sheesh.

[Roger Marty]

Stored away for what?!? It's marked with the date and location - not like it'll be used again.

I'm pretty disturbed by the waste of 500 trees for 3 games of basketball. Sheesh.

I would hope the floor has the paint stripped/sanded off and that the floor is repurposed.

[Kevin Smira]

I'm just thinking of all the wasted maple syrup now. How many gallons of syrup could be had from 500 sugar maple trees!!!

[Chad Persing]

I am thinking Jim is correct..I know the last time my Jayhawks won..😊..you could purchase sections of the flooring as a collectible.

[Andrew Gibson]

Interesting, But hard to believe they only get 20 ft.² out of each tree!

9800 square feet divided by 500 trees = 19.8 sq. Ft. Per tree harvested.

Cannot imagine that to be correct but perhaps they are very selective in the grain orientation,etc

Bill

If you convert the square feet to board feet at 4/4 thick, 19 square feet comes to 361 board foot per tree. Add back in the .8 that I rounded off and the overlap of tongue and groove and the yield is greater still. From the pictures of the logs I would say the yield wasn't bad, or is my math off?

Either way I thought it was a cool article.

[Thomas Hutson]

Stored away for what?!? It's marked with the date and location - not like it'll be used again.

I'm pretty disturbed by the waste of 500 trees for 3 games of basketball. Sheesh.

seriously its pretty ridiculous. just use the regular court. whats wrong with a regular court. put decals on it or something. jeeze