Here is a little wet: a roof leak causes delay in a plus in C-USA title game

Faculty basketball She experienced her own version of the rain delay on Saturday.

A conference in the US male basketball conference match between The state of Jacksonville and Freedom It was postponed for leaking on the roof ceiling at the von Braun center. The leakage is believed to be caused by storms in the Hentsville area in Alabama on Saturday, pushing back at 8:30 pm ET type until 9:36 pm.

The water fell from the roof of the ceiling to the field near the Sagittarius table during warming. Initially, towels were used to clean the mess on the field before the stadium workers wiped the remains.

But she was still missing water from the ceiling after the game was supposed to start. Other Arena workers broke through the Rafters at the Von Braun Center, placing more tickets under the leak area, reporters said on the spot.

The decision to delay the beginning of Saturday’s game came for a few moments before the players in each team set up to start the game. State Coach Jacksonville Ray Harper was the first to point out that the water falls off the ceiling, informing officials while the fluid was still falling every 30 seconds, According to Al.com.

The C-USA title game is obviously important. In addition to winning the Crown of the Conference, the winner will go to the NCAA tournament, while the loser will almost certainly see how dreams about March Madness are over.

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Liberty, who won the C-USA title of the regular part of the season and 27-6 enters Saturday, seeks to win his seventh conference tournament in the history of the program, but his first conference tournament since he became a member of the C-USA in the 2023-24 season. He last made the NCAA tournament in 2021.

In the meantime, Jacksonville State finished second in a conference game during the regular season and enters the championship game with a record 22-11. He also seeks his first conference tournament title since he joined the C-USA in the 2023-24 season. She won two conference tournaments at the division level and, last, claimed that the Atlantic Sun Tournament in 2022 to make the NCAA tournament.

Freedom was the seed number 13 and the only C-USA representative in Michael Decourcy The latest projection of the carrier.

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