Spring Break
Legendary to modern
Video scoreboards ready for first official action tonight as OSU meets Yale in basketball
Sol Allen
Issue date: 11/24/08 Section: Sports
Legendary Gill Coliseum is now ready to match its counterpart, Reser Stadium, in raising the bar around the conference in the way fans can enjoy the games. While Gill is one of just a few arenas in the Pac-10 not to have a center-hanging scoreboard, this fact does not diminish the effect the new upgrade has. The technology at the fingertips of the media team at Gill now easily matches the best of those in the conference.
"It's going to be nice to catch up to the rest of the arenas in the conference," freshman constructional engineering major Jason Patterson said. "I think it's going to bring in a lot of students in for the basketball season."
That is just the excitement that the athletic department is going to need in their attempt to rise back to the top in all the winter sports.
In a very important year for the men's basketball team, and it is enthusiasm for something like these scoreboards that is needed to get the fans into Gill to support them. The scoreboard got its first run of action on Friday at the gymnastics' Orange and Black Exhibition, displaying event scores and team totals throughout the night. Tonight the scoreboard will be back in action for its first basketball game as the Beavers take on the Yale Bulldogs.
The winter athletics season will be a new year filled with new upgrades, from coaches and players to technological advances.
Sol Allen, sports writer
sports@dailybarometer.com
"It's going to be nice to catch up to the rest of the arenas in the conference," freshman constructional engineering major Jason Patterson said. "I think it's going to bring in a lot of students in for the basketball season."
That is just the excitement that the athletic department is going to need in their attempt to rise back to the top in all the winter sports.
In a very important year for the men's basketball team, and it is enthusiasm for something like these scoreboards that is needed to get the fans into Gill to support them. The scoreboard got its first run of action on Friday at the gymnastics' Orange and Black Exhibition, displaying event scores and team totals throughout the night. Tonight the scoreboard will be back in action for its first basketball game as the Beavers take on the Yale Bulldogs.
The winter athletics season will be a new year filled with new upgrades, from coaches and players to technological advances.
Sol Allen, sports writer
sports@dailybarometer.com
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