The stands of American Family Field will be home to fans of a different kind of ball game on Friday.
The Milwaukee Brewers have teamed up with the University of Wisconsin’s men’s and women’s basketball teams, and sporting events promoter InterSport of Chicago, to put on the first college basketball games at the stadium.
On Monday, crews with InterSport spent the day laying down a basketball court onto the baseball diamond square by square.
Once the court is laid, bleacher seating will be added around portions of the court.
Friday’s event, called the Aurora Health Care Brew City Battle, is an early season college basketball doubleheader with Wisconsin’s women’s team playing against Kansas State at 3:30 p.m. and the Wisconsin men’s team playing against Stanford at 6:30 p.m.
It will be the first time that American Family Field has hosted a college basketball event, and the first staged in a baseball-only park since San Diego played San Diego State at Petco Park in 2015.
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- Crews lay down sections of regulation college basketball court on the baseball diamond at American Family Field on Monday ahead of a Wisconsin Badgers basketball game slated to be played there on Friday. (Cara Spoto/BizTimes)
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- Crews prepare American Family Field for the Aurora Health Care Brew City Battle. Photo shot by Cara Spoto.
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- Crews prepare American Family Field for the Aurora Health Care Brew City Battle. Photo shot by Cara Spoto.
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- Crews prepare American Family Field for the Aurora Health Care Brew City Battle. Photo shot by Cara Spoto.
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- Crews prepare American Family Field for the Aurora Health Care Brew City Battle. Photo shot by Cara Spoto.
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- Crews prepare American Family Field for the Aurora Health Care Brew City Battle. Photo shot by Cara Spoto.
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- Crews prepare American Family Field for the Aurora Health Care Brew City Battle. Photo shot by Cara Spoto.
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- Crews prepare American Family Field for the Aurora Health Care Brew City Battle. Photo shot by Cara Spoto.
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- Crews prepare American Family Field for the Aurora Health Care Brew City Battle. Photo shot by Cara Spoto.
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- This rendering shows how the basketball court will be set up at American Family Field for the Aurora Health Care Brew City Battle event with the Wisconsin Badgers men’s and women’s basketball teams.
