TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (WIAT) — On Friday, the College of Alabama Machine Board of Trustees authorized weighty plans for its males’s and ladies’s basketball systems.
The southeast nook of Coleman Coliseum will obtain a 48,000-square-foot growth month renovating roughly 19,000 sq. ft of present crew field. The cost tag for those plans can be $58 million.
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UA President Stuart Bell is interested by what this implies for the basketball groups’ week coaching and participant building.
“It is exciting, and coaches are excited, and the athletic director is excited, and I am excited,” Bell stated. “This is going to add an additional practice facility for our students, so we’ll now have two. We’ll have addressed both men’s and women’s practice facilities.”
Inside of that footprint, the boys’s and ladies’s basketball systems could have their very own respective follow amenities and weight rooms. Participant building gardens can be added for each groups which can come with warehouse rooms, lounges, movie rooms, apparatus rooms, sports activities drugs areas and workplaces.
“We attract such great men and woman to our program, and they are excited about having new facilities to practice in and hopefully learn how to make it to the Final Four again and to be the best they can be,” Bell stated.
Bell stated development will have to get started upcoming in 2024 and can pull 18 months.
