Boulder, Colo ? Eight years after banning beer in most of Folsom Stadium for football games, the University of Colorado could begin discussing a halt to beer sales during basketball games.

Discussions could begin within a month, said Provost Phil DiStefano.

“Since we do have the beer ban in Folsom Field, I think we really should take a look at not selling beer at the Coors Events Center,” he said.

The arena is the only one in the Big 12 Conference where alcohol is served during basketball games, said conference spokesman Bo Carter.

The school was ranked the No. 1 party school in the nation last year by the independent Princeton Review, and officials have been battling students’ binge drinking for years.

After a sex-and-alcohol scandal surrounding the football program’s recruiting practices and the Princeton Review ranking, CU toughened its drinking policies and stepped up its anti-alcohol message.

Regent Jim Martin has recently questioned whether it’s appropriate for CU to sell beer during basketball games, and whether it’s appropriate to name the arena after a family best known for its brewing company.

“It ingratiates young people with the message of Coors,” Martin said this week. “No one would even begin to name any kind of NCAA venue after Johnnie Walker or Jack Daniels.”

The arena received its name in 1990 after the Coors family donated $5 million to CU athletics through the Coors Foundation.

The Folsom Stadium beer ban was approved in 1995 after a committee of students, faculty members and administrators joined law enforcement leaders in calling for the ban.