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  "path": "/big-12-pulls-glass-court-following-conference-tournament-fiasco",
  "publishedAt": "2026-03-13T16:38:44.000Z",
  "site": "https://defector.com",
  "tags": [
    "College Basketball",
    "Death To The NCAA",
    "bad ideas",
    "big 12",
    "big 12 tournament",
    "Brett Yormark",
    "since the tourney started",
    "CBS Sports"
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  "textContent": "Basketball is meant to be played on blacktop or hardwood. But some big-thinking Big 12 dumbass big-thought it was time to give glass a shot.\n\nThat dumbass is conference commissioner Brett Yormark, who installed a high-tech LED court made of glass for the league tournament, which is being contested this week in Kansas City. Turns out glass is fine for backboards, but, as has been clear since the tourney started, not the floor. So now they're uninstalling it: CBS Sports reported Thursday night that the commissioner, who came to the Big 12 after a run as COO of Jay Z’s Roc Nation, decided to yank his avant-garde surface and replace it with \"a traditional hardwood court\" forthwith. Yormark said he made the decision after talking to “the coaches of our four semifinal teams.”\n\nProbably could have added “and a personal injury attorney.”",
  "title": "Big 12 Pulls Glass Court Following Conference Tournament Fiasco"
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