There are no locker rooms — no enclosed, team-specific areas for the men’s soccer clubs participating in the NCAA Tournament at WakeMed Field in Cary, N.C. So when lightning threatened the area and rain began to fall late in the first half of Monday’s quarterfinals matchup, the IU and Seton Hall teams made a run for it.
And sprinted straight to their respective busses.
“There was no place to go,” IU coach Todd Yeagley said.
The Hoosiers made do with their cramped quarters for the bulk of the approximate hour during which the teams were kept from the pitch, another less-than-ideal wrinkle in a spring season full of them.