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Message: [QUOTE="huskymedic, post: 5042736, member: 549"] … or just from down the road @ Gampel Pavilion?? -> Athletics uses red, and they use it in a very sparing way, often outlining Jonathan the Husky and other things,” LaPosta says. “You won’t find a whole lot of red on campus outside of the athletic facilities.” ([I]Gampel Pavilion, home of the two-time defending national champion UConn men’s basketball team, has similar seat coloring.[/I]) Hussey Seating Company manufactured not only Toscano’s different-colored chairback seats, but also the color-coordinated bleachers in a student section at one end of the arena that continue the red seating ring. “[I]We just thought it was appropriate to do that on two levels — one to relate to the kind of thin red line you see in a lot of their branding, and two, to kind of pay homage to Gampel Pavilion, a pretty important building at UConn[/I],” LaPosta says. <- [/QUOTE]