Renovating arenas associated with University of Kentucky basketball has been much in the news the past two weeks.
Late last month, Lexington Center officials announced plans for a Rupp Arena upgrade that will eventually install chair-back seats on the sides of the upper deck and also lead to the construction of four "clubs" near the venue where patrons can, among other things, partake of adult beverages.
Meanwhile, UK Athletics Director Mitch Barnhart told the Herald-Leader's Jennifer Smith that the university has a roughly $15 million wish list of upgrades it would like to perform on the historic Memorial Coliseum, the current, on-campus home of the Kentucky women's basketball, volleyball and gymnastics programs and the past home of the UK's men's hoops team (1950-76).