Arizona’s McKale Center court brings back the cactus logo

The Arizona Wildcats' McKale Center court hasn't featured the historic cactus logo for more than a decade.

May 19, 2025, 2:35 PM Updated: May 20, 2025, 12:05 pm

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The Lute and Bobbi Olson Court at McKale Center hasn’t featured the historic cactus logo for more than a decade.

But the Arizona Wildcats are changing that heading into the 2025-26 school year.

The athletic department on Tuesday revealed a set of four court designs, showing the iconic cactus logo that was featured on the court starting in 1981. It was ultimately phased out altogether by 2013.

the best logo in college sports is back 🌵

& we've got options! vote for your favorite design here 📲 https://t.co/YleVddOmG6 pic.twitter.com/730u04jES1

— Arizona Athletics (@AZATHLETICS) May 19, 2025

The school showed an inclination that it wanted to tap back into the well-liked logo featuring a saguaro cactus in front of a sun and mountain this past football season, when it was planted on a set of white helmets for an October game against Colorado.

Now, it’s back on the court in a few variations.

While three of the four designs — which fans can vote on — feature the cactus logo on two of the four wings, two place it more front and center.

One includes a silhouette of the full logo in the bottom half of the court lengthwise. Another has a green, blue and red version sitting a little lower below the Block A logo.

The colored version is wildly similar to a Photoshop project from Wildcat fan Alejandro Alvarez, who in October 2016 tweeted an image of the cactus logo on the Block A court. The only major difference is that Alvarez’s image didn’t have Big 12 logos sitting in the all-navy lanes.

Fun with photoshop pic.twitter.com/4OvGTuJRJ7

— Alejandro Alvarez (@WhyNotAlvarez) October 21, 2016

Kevin Zimmerman ArizonaSports.com editor

Kevin Zimmerman is ArizonaSports.com's and KTAR.com's digital content manager and co-host of Arizona Sports' Empire of the Suns podcast. The Mesa native has covered the Suns on-and-off since graduating the University of Arizona in 2011 and also spent… Read more

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ascc 1 year ago

That's last year's news . . . The new AD has been balancing the books with the new NIL collective, which has tapped into some serious deep pockets from donors. People like Bob Baffert are cutting FAT checks . . . They wouldn't have made the change to the court if they didn't have the funds.

BlockerBurner 1 year ago

This from an athletic department that is drowning in debt. Frivolous spending (and I'm a UofA alum).

Arizona’s McKale Center court brings back the cactus logo

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