Editing Allen Fieldhouse (section)

==Banners==
In lieu of retiring numbers, banners hang on the south wall of the fieldhouse to honor former men's and women's basketball players including [[Wilt Chamberlain]], [[Clyde Lovellette]], [[Jo Jo White]], [[Danny Manning]], [[Paul Pierce]], [[Lynette Woodard]], [[Drew Gooden]], [[Nick Collison]], [[Kirk Hinrich]], among [[Kansas Jayhawks men's basketball#Retired jerseys|others]].  The banners display the player's surname over his/her number, but the numbers themselves are reused.  There is also a banner to honor [[Max Falkenstien]], a former Jayhawks radio announcer, who was given the "number" 60 to commemorate his 60 years of service to the university. To date he is the only non-athlete to be so honored at Allen Fieldhouse. The east and west rafters are devoted to KU's multiple Final Fours and conference championships.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www2.kusports.com/news/2006/mar/02/falkenstien_has_jersey_unfurled/?mens_basketball|title=Falkenstien has 'jersey' unfurled|date=March 2, 2006 |url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110717044331/http://www2.kusports.com/news/2006/mar/02/falkenstien_has_jersey_unfurled/?mens_basketball|archive-date=July 17, 2011}}</ref>

On the north wall hang banners for KU's four national championships: their two championships awarded by the [[Helms Athletic Foundation|Helms Foundation]] for KU's 1922 and 1923 seasons, as well as their four NCAA tournament titles in [[1952 NCAA basketball tournament|1952]], [[1988 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament|1988]], [[2008 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament|2008]], and [[2022 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament|2022]]. On the south wall hang banners for the Kansas women's basketball team's WNIT championship in 2023.

Above these championship banners hangs a banner reading "Pay Heed, All Who Enter: Beware of the Phog", in reference to the intimidating atmosphere and the team's home court dominance.  The original "Pay Heed" banner was constructed out of dormitory shower curtains by a group of KU students before a late-season game against the [[1987–88 Duke Blue Devils men's basketball team|Duke Blue Devils]] in 1988 and is now on display in the Booth Family Hall of Athletics museum. The slogan was inspired in part by advertisements for the 1980s horror movie [[The Fog]]. It hung on the north wall until 1999, by which time it had deteriorated to the point where it was about to fall.<ref name="Pay Heed">{{cite news|last=Newell|first=Jesse|title=The story behind KU's 'Beware of the Phog' banner ... from the men who created it|url=http://www.kansascity.com/sports/college/big-12/university-of-kansas/article194617979.html|access-date=January 15, 2018|newspaper=Kansas City Star|date=January 13, 2018 }}</ref>  The university replaced the banner with a much more regular-looking design, which met with negative reaction from the public. The current banner was redesigned to be more faithful to the look of the original.

A banner reading "Just Load the Wagon" was hung on the west side of Allen Fieldhouse in 2022 to honor the father of Kansas head coach Bill Self after his passing that year. The phrase "just load the wagon" was a common word of encouragement that Self's father would say to him throughout his life.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.kansascity.com/sports/college/big-12/university-of-kansas/article268244647.html|title=KU Jayhawks hang banner to honor the memory of Bill Self’s dad: ‘Just load the wagon’|first=Gary|last=Bedore|date=November 3, 2022|website=kansascity.com}}</ref>