CHAMPAIGN — Friday turned out to be a long travel day for the East Tennessee State men's basketball team.
The Buccaneers, who are scheduled to play Illinois at 1 p.m. Saturday inside State Farm Center, hadn't even arrived in Champaign-Urbana as of 11 p.m. Friday night, according to tweets from ETSU head coach Steve Forbes.
The plan was for the Johnson City, Tenn., based school to arrive in Bloomington Airport around 4:30 p.m. Friday, but according to Forbes, Delta Airlines cancelled that flight due to fog in the area. The Buccaneers were instead booked on a flight to Chicago's Midway Airport.