The maple hardwood that makes up the courts at the men's and women's Final Four is part of basketball's foundation.

The maple hardwood that makes up the courts at the men's and women's Final Four is part of basketball's foundation.

The wood? Northern hard maple, still in place more than seven decades later at the venerable “Old Barn.” At Duke ... mill turns the lumber into maple boards. Boards are then used to build ...

Down on hands and knees in the Alamodome, workers lurched forward to generate enough leverage to slide one large wood panel alongside another.