Some University of Louisville basketball fans are complaining about cold, cramped conditions in their premium-priced front-row seats in Freedom Hall. Were sitting on ice, said Gene Walters, who is in the first row of Section 111. My wife recently had knee replacement surgery, and the cold really bothers her. Freedom Hall made some seat changes after it became the home rink for the Louisville Panthers hockey team. The installation of dasher boards, the approximately 4-foot-high wall around the ice surface, prompted officials to slide the first row on the areas west side and the first two rows on the east side toward the court. The boards stay up during basketball games and that has brought complaints. Each seat in the front row requires an annual $1,200 donation to the university, on top of the price of the season tickets. For this season, two front-row seats cost $3,012.Harold Workman, executive director of the Kentucky State Fair Board, which oversees Freedom Hall, said some fans complaints are unfounded. Engineers found the first row to be less than 2 degrees colder than the elevated rows behind it, he said. Front row patrons have six inches more leg room, he said. A lot of it is perception Workman said. No one likes change. We all resist change, and we sometimes have a tendency to think things are worse than they actually are. He said the Fair Board is learning as it goes along in its first year of having a permanent ice surface at Freedom Hall.