SHREVEPORT, La. -- R. Buckminster Fuller was a 20th-century inventor, architect, engineer, mathematician and part-time poet. He pioneered the geodesic dome, a lightweight and portable structure, as a means by which to ease housing shortages and help eradicate global poverty. Back in the 1940s, as the story goes, a visitor to Fuller's prototype house proclaimed, "My God! This is the house of the future!"
For the past 36 seasons, Centenary has played in a geodesic arena called the Gold Dome, but it's done precious little to eradicate its basketball poverty -- with the notable exception of the Robert Parish years in the 1970s, the Gentlemen have spent most of their life in their Epcot Center-esque building starving for wins. They've only enjoyed one winning season in the past decade, and in 2004-05, they only emerged victorious three times over a 27-game schedule.
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