IRN: The Reuse Network | Higher Ed: Boston University’s Basketball Floor Gets a New Home in Jamaica (June 2010) January 2005 was a bad month for the floor at Boston University’s Brown Arena. After 30 years hosting men’s and women’s hoops – coaches like Rick Pitino, Mike Krzyzewski, Jim Calhoun, players like Reggie Lewis, Christian Laettner, and Grant Hill – after holding up a tennis court for Billie Jean King and Chris Evert, after hundreds of concerts and graduations and special events – it was shoved into a warehouse, pushed aside by a brand new floor at the new Agganis Arena. There it sat for almost five years. In the dark, lost, forgotten. It would probably have sat there until doomsday, except that last year BU landed a role in a movie. Hollywood needed the warehouse, Hollywood g

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