Kansas City, Mo. — The University of Kansas athletic department on Wednesday unveiled plans and renderings for upcoming to renovations to Allen Fieldhouse that KU coach Bill Self said were going to be “big time.”

KU is preparing to execute a series of upgrades in the next couple of years that will address and enhance all three levels of the venue’s concourses, upgrade and expand donor areas and install additional chairback seats, state-of-the-art videoboards and a new sound system.

The news release indicated that one of the keys to the project would be to modernize and improve several aspects of KU’s home basketball arena while also “maintaining the history and tradition of the Fieldhouse.”

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