This year's Final Four basketball floor made by Connor Sport Court International (Salt Lake City, Utah) has received a deluge of coverage, eclipsing the amount of media attention devoted to most b-list celebrities.
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This year's Final Four basketball floor made by Connor Sport Court International (Salt Lake City, Utah) has received a deluge of coverage, eclipsing the amount of media attention devoted to most b-list celebrities.
The media blitz included the parade Connor threw on Friday, March 23, to usher the court to the New Orleans' Mercedes-Benz Superdome. Viewers and participants were surprised to be involved in a parade for a wood floor: "No, I've never been in a parade with a 53 foot tractor trailer, no sir," Bill Wolske, who piloted the floor down Poydras Street, told WWLTV. And after she was told she was standing in line to see a parade for a wood floor, Nikki Gripe, who lives in Stillwater, Okla., told WWLTV, "See we didn't even know, we just knew there was a parade." Here's a YouTube clip of coverage by New Orleans' WWL and Fox8:
Many other local media outlets covered the parade, and around the country, several outlets covered the multi-stop tour that preceded it. On Tuesday, HF provided a wrap up of the tour and parade.There was also major buzz about the floor's construction. On Sunday, CBS Sports Network devoted a one-hour documentary to the floor's making, and a few days prior to that, USA Today produced a short video on the floor's journey from the Menominee Indian Tribal Forest near Neopit, Wis., to a Connor production facility in Amasa, Mich., to the facility for Ohio Floor Company in Holmesville, Ohio, where it was sanded, painted and finished. Here's that clip: