In 30 years plus of covering college basketball, I've had the start of games delayed a handful of times. Usually they were for only a few minutes, and then for reasons that seemed to make sense. Flickering lights or faulty time clocks, maybe a late-arriving team or a ref in bad weather.
But a beer truck running over a hydrant and rupturing a water main running into Cassell Coliseum?
I arrived here for what was supposed to be a 4 p.m. tip between Maryland and Virginia Tech about 15 minutes after it was announced that the game will now start at 7 p.m. The game was supposed to be televised on Raycom in the Baltimore-Washington area, and it's now up to local affiliates to decide whether to change its programming.
I will put a call into WNUV to see what its plans are and will post the response when I get it.
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Photo of the beer truck that hit the hydrant that broke the water main at Virginia Tech's Cassell Coliseum.