Ninety-six seconds remained in the latest meeting of the crosstown showdown — a game that, in recent memory, had lent itself to late-game heroics on this very hardwood.

In De Longe’s classroom, I grabbed a pair of scissors, cut through the new rug’s plastic packaging and unfurled it on the hardwood floor.

Winding up face down on the court, Bilodeau pounded the hardwood with both hands and uttered an expletive.

When Cheryl Miller first touched the hardwood as a Trojan, she powered the women of Troy to a national championship.

The stands consist of two triangular hardwood structures that clip together through magnets, with naturally tanned leather attachments for the guitars to rest on.