Wasn't there prior discussions about our scoreboard situation with comparisons to Purdue's basketball arena. As I remember it, there was no reason we couldn't have a hanging board like Purdue because the 2 arenas were basically clones. Decided to watch osu/purdue and am actually looking at their facility. I may be wrong, never been to Mackey, but it does not appear that there is any hanging board. It also appears their boards are in the corners like ours and go all the way to the floor with lots of people seated in front of them. It looks far worse than our situation. They may have boards on the sides above the crowd fixed to the walls for all to see, but they don't scan to that area often or high enough, as of yet. Just thought I'd throw out what I'm seeing and thinking what I see isn't what was presented in the discussions.

The shot in the link really shows how similar the arenas are. It also shows a big, fat, heavy scoreboard:
http://www.purduesports.com/facilities/mackey-arena.html