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Michigan State basketball's Tom Izzo should be furious after Virginia postponement debacle

Detroit Free Press

Welcome to the present state of college basketball. How long it lasts, nobody knows.

At 6:18 p.m., Tom Izzo and the Michigan State Spartans took off in a chartered airplane from Capital Region International Airport in Lansing for a 1-hour, 1-minute flight to Charlottesville-Ablemarle Airport in Virginia.

About four hours later in their hotel, around 11:30 p.m., Izzo and the Spartans learned the ACC/Big Ten Challenge game had been canceled. “Postponed due to COVID-19 issues within the Cavaliers’ program,” was how the official release read, less than 24 hours before the scheduled 9:15 p.