Visiting Cameron Indoor Stadium is not just a trip, but more like entering a different reality where you feel like you’ve been transported through your television screen and landed on the most iconic stage of college basketball. When you step inside places like the Palestra or Hinkle Fieldhouse, you are enveloped in a sense of nostalgia and love for the sport, and you leave with a remarkable experience ticked off your list of must-dos.

Fordham’s Rose Hill Gymnasium is the neighborhood joint where everything is the way you remember it. It is where you’ve never been or where you’re certain to return. It takes one trip to learn it like the back of your hand because it isn’t much bigger.

Walk straight into the NCAA’s oldest on-campus basketball arena — opened Jan. 16, 1925 — and you’ll hit a wall, forcing you to turn (left or right) into a narrow hallway, past a parade of plaques of former Rams. The 3,200 seats hug the court. Everyone sits in coach, spitting distance from the sideline, beneath a cathedral ceiling and clerestory windows, allowing sunlight to touch the floor.

You can sit anywhere you like: 1971. 1947. 2023.