Good floor, good acoustics, vocal crowd. Proves there are lots of rich white folks willing to pay a lot of money to keep their kids away from those dreadful public schools. Pulitzer Prize winner Larry McMurtry hangs out there. He's a fan of Sara Ossana, the best girl player in the city. Just feels like a high school gym.
Place really rocks when full, especially if people are in the balcony.
The din is deafening. You could get a headache watching a chess tournament in that place. State of the art building, really impressive, plus they have a top-notch program, but somehow the place comes off a little too sterile. They'd have to paint that thing before they could condemn it. Haunted by the spectre of the 1969 state championship team, probably the best local prep squad ever, and the legacy of underachieving Badger squads since then.