About two hours before the scheduled takeoff, Monday night’s men’s basketball game between Miami and North Carolina in Chapel Hill was postponed, the ACC announced.
The decision comes hours after The Daily Tar Heel, a North Carolina student newspaper, posted a Snapchat video featuring UNC’s standouts Day’Ron Sharpe and Armando Bacot without masks, along with other young people who do not wear masks on Saturday. not. 91-87 over Duke won.
A source told ESPN that the video and the league’s decision to postpone the match, which would start at 19:00 ET, are related. Andy Fledderjohann, a spokesman for the league, referred to the ACC statement when asked if the video influenced the decision. He also said the ACC had “no further information to provide”.
“The postponement follows a meeting of staff from both schools, who mutually concluded that the match could not continue today,” the league statement said.
In the short video, Sharpe and Bacot, who together scored 27 points in the victory over their main rivals on Saturday, are hanging out with several people in a room while music is playing in the background.
The ACC’s health and safety protocols contain several reasons for postponing a contest, including the “inability to conduct adequate contact detection in accordance with government requirements or recommendations” and the “inability to isolate new positive cases, or to quarantine cases of high contact risk to travel and home team of university students. ‘