NBA, ACC males, UConn ladies amongst school hoops video games affected by approaching winter storm

WASHINGTON (AP) – An NBA sport, an NHL contest and dozens of faculty basketball video games throughout a large swath of the nation have been reshuffled due to an approaching major winter storm.

The storm that meteorologists say may rival the damage of a major hurricane is predicted to convey snow, ice and frigid temperatures from New Mexico to New England beginning Friday. Forecasters warn the climate system may convey catastrophic harm, widespread energy outages and bitter chilly.

In the NBA, the beginning time of the Washington Wizards’ sport on the Charlotte Hornets on Saturday was moved to midday.

The NHL mentioned Saturday’s sport in Nashville between the Predators and the Utah Mammoth would begin two hours earlier.

The Atlantic Coast Conference moved up the beginning instances for 3 males’s basketball video games on Saturday: Wake Forest at Duke, North Carolina at Virginia, and Virginia Tech at Louisville. On the ladies’s facet, Wake Forest’s residence sport in opposition to Virginia Tech and Virginia’s residence sport in opposition to N.C. State had been shifted from Sunday to Saturday, whereas North Carolina moved up its Sunday sport in opposition to Syracuse to a midday EST begin.

Xavier moved up its begin time for Saturday’s males’s sport in opposition to St. John’s by one hour, and the Xavier ladies’s crew made it a doubleheader, shifting its residence sport in opposition to Georgetown from Sunday to Saturday morning.

In the Big 12, the Oklahoma State males’s sport in opposition to No. 9 Iowa State was moved up by one hour on Saturday, whereas the LSU at Arkansas males’s matchup within the Southeastern Conference was pushed a number of hours earlier. On the ladies’s facet, Arkansas’ residence sport in opposition to Texas was postponed to Feb. 19.

A pair of ladies’s video games involving ranked groups additionally had scheduling modifications. No. 1 UConn’s sport at Seton Hall was moved from Sunday to Saturday, and No. 14 Baylor’s residence contest in opposition to Houston went from Sunday to Tuesday. Also, Cincinnati shifted its ladies’s sport to a midday begin Saturday in opposition to Arizona State.

The variety of states the place school video games had been being adjusted confirmed the big path of the approaching storm. The forecast comes precisely a yr after one other storm pressured postponements across U.S. sports.

The Sun Belt Conference preemptively shook up its women’s basketball schedule, shifting across the begin instances on a number of video games from Thursday via Saturday. The American Athletic Conference additionally adjusted its weekend males’s and ladies’s schedules, shifting some video games as much as Friday.

North Carolina Central postponed two males’s and two ladies’s video games scheduled to be performed from Thursday via Monday in Durham, North Carolina.

Appalachian State moved up its males’s residence sport with Louisiana-Lafayette to Thursday morning and Marshall made its residence sport in opposition to Louisiana-Monroe a midday Thursday tipoff.

Middle Tennessee State males’s basketball moved its Conference USA showdown with Jacksonville State from Saturday to Friday night.

Tennessee’s swim meet at Georgia and the South Carolina Upstate ladies’s basketball sport at Longwood had been pushed to Friday from Saturday.

Other ladies’s video games moved up a number of hours Saturday included No. 20 Princeton at Brown and North Florida at Eastern Kentucky, together with males’s video games involving Towson at North Carolina A&T and Texas State at James Madison.

Rice adjusted tipoff instances for its males’s and ladies’s residence video games. The males’s sport in opposition to Tulsa initially scheduled for Sunday was modified to Saturday. The ladies’s sport sport in opposition to Tulane on Saturday was moved up by one hour.

George Mason’s ladies’s sport in opposition to Richmond was moved up three hours to 11 a.m. Sunday, with no followers permitted to attend.

Major League Baseball’s Texas Rangers canceled their annual Fan Fest scheduled for Saturday due to the forecast for frozen precipitation in North Texas and “in the interest of safety for players, fans, and employees.”

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