The pregame walk University of New Mexico basketball players take from their locker room to Bob King Court in the Pit isn’t an easy one.
Through a hallway located on street level. Down a back and forth flight of stairs. Through a crowded mid-ramp staging area for game personnel, media, security, referees, cheerleaders and others – a place where the distant sounds of a buzzing crowd start to grow louder. Then the final descent down the steep, iconic ramp where, halfway down the players emerge through a large red curtain to the bright lights and roaring crowd in the arena.