LAWRENCE, Kan. — Beetle Bolden was redshirting on the West Virginia bench in 2016 when he first absorbed the Phog Allen Fieldhouse experience.
“You couldn’t hear yourself,” he said. “I was trying to talk to the guy next to me and he couldn’t hear me. It was just loud.”
It grew even louder last season — verifiably so — when the Kansas crowd set a Guiness World Record for noisiest indoor sporting event. Eclipsing 130 decibels, they watched the Jayhawks rally from 14 points down in the final 3 minutes of regulation and win 84-80 in overtime.