There have been a ton of sports events canceled over the past year due to COVID-19 concerns, some at the last minute. But it’s certainly new and interesting to a game go down right around the opening national anthem. Scott Eisberg, the sports director for WCIV (an ABC affiliate in Charleston, SC), tweeted Tuesday night that that’s what happened during a Charleston Southern Buccaneers home basketball game against the University of South Carolina Upstate Spartans (which had been set for WatchESPN):
And that timing seems about right. Here’s what the USC Upstate MBB Twitter account sent out at 7:12 p.m. Eastern, shortly after the planned 7:00 p.m. tipoff:
Heck, even a scores bot tweeted that the game had started.
Meanwhile, Kevin Bilodeau, the sports director at Charleston CBS affiliate Live Five, tweeted that these postponements happened just before tipoff:
In any case, this certainly led to a remarkable turnaround from “game” to “no game.”
[Photo via Kevin Bilodeau on Twitter]
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Andrew Bucholtz has been covering sports media for Awful Announcing since 2012. He is also a staff writer for The Comeback. His previous work includes time at Yahoo! Sports Canada and Black Press.