crowd would come alive and pick us up." The total men's basketball attendance from 1950 to 1988 was over 4,839,796. Ahearn today By the mid-1970s, it was obvious that the basketball team had outgrown Ahearn, and KSU administration decided that the basketball teams needed a new home. In 1979, KSU began raising money for what would become Bramlage Coliseum, which became the new home of the basketball teams in 1988. Over the years Ahearn has been modified to accommodate a variety of other activities, ranging from additional classroom space to providing venues for other intercollegiate sports such as indoor track and field and volleyball. Ahearn has also hosted NCAA volleyball tournament games four times since 1996. See also David Smale, The Ahearn Tradition (1988) Mark Bender, Trial By Basketball: The Life and Times of Tex Winter (2000) References External links Kansas State Wildcats men's basketball Kansas State Wildcats basketball venues Basketball venues in Kansas Sports venues in Kansas Defunct college basketball venues in the United States 1950 establishments in Kansas Sports venues completed in 1950 College volleyball venues in the United States College track and field venues in the United States Athletics (track and field) venues in Kansas