On Hilton South and (maybe) slippery glass

That was life on day three of the match’s new LED-backlit glass flooring, which has drawn combined opinions each for appears to be like and for security. Several gamers have stated it has extra bounce than a picket flooring however extra are saying it’s slippery than those that say it is not.

“Obviously, the floor is a bit slippery,” Anderson stated later, in keeping with the Kansas City Star. “I just kind of misstepped or did a move that caused me to slip and kind of ended up in an unnatural position.”

But finally, no Wildcats had been damage and Burries stated, after getting used to it throughout warmups, the one time that it bothered him was when he shot free throws.

“If you’re shooting a free throw and you’re on the other side, the LED lights get in your eyes a little bit,” Burries stated. “But ain’t no big deal, really.”

UA ahead Ivan Kharchenkov, who performed on the same glass flooring final season for Bayern Munich, stated he truly felt the ground was safer as a result of logos and graphics had been in lights, not stickers.

“Back in Germany, we have a lot of stickers on hardwood floors. It’s slippery,” Kharchenkov stated. “I don’t know if it’s a European thing or whatever, but stickers are horrible. They just don’t have the grip. You slide above the sticker, and then you get traction with the floor again. It’s really dangerous.”

When discussing Friday’s Arizona-Iowa State matchup, Big 12-focused ESPN analyst Fran Fraschilla said no fan base has been crazier inside the T-Mobile Center than Iowa State’s.

Yep, much more so than the followers from Kansas, who’re famously identified for his or her legendary noise at Allen Fieldhouse, nearly an hour to the west.