Kentucky will travel to Nashville this coming weekend to play in Vanderbilt’s Memorial Gym, the only venue in college basketball with its benches and coaching boxes on the baseline, behind each goal.
This season the coaching boxes were extended down the sideline to the three-point line — per a request from the SEC to the NCAA rules committee — but even with the change, it is still a very unique layout for a college basketball floor.
In the past, the peculiar setup has been difficult on opposing teams as they’re left playing the first half of games without any instruction from their head coach, who is on the complete opposite end of the court.