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 at 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 team to arrive at Central Illinois Regional Airport in Bloomington around 4:30 p.m. Friday, but according to Forbes, Delta Airlines canceled that flight because of fog in the area. The Buccaneers were instead booked on a flight to Chicago's Midway International Airport through Atlanta.