Winston-Salem State University’s C.E. Gaines Center, one of the meccas of HBCU basketball, may soon be replaced. A capital building project titled SB 534 was introduced on March 25 that would provide funding for capital project funding at HBCUs North Carolina A&T and WSSU. T he bill proposes an allotment of $112.5 million dollars for to be used for a Health, Physical Education, and Recreation Complex for WSSU. The proposed money would be used to build a new multi-purpose facility that would include a new home for WSSU basketball. WSSU’s basketball programs are currently housed at the C.E. Gaines Center. Having enough seats for a basketball crowd has always been a challenge for Winston-Salem State. At least since Clarence “Big House” Gaines showed up and turned Winston-Salem Teacher’s College basketball into an HBCU powerhouse after World War II. Whitaker Gymnasium was completed in 1953, and still stands today. Coincidently, that was the same year WSSU won its first CIAA…..