A trip to Springfield will be a welcome reprieve and a chance to concentrate on basketball for one Bass Pro Tournament of Champions team.
The Madison Preparatory Academy Chargers (Baton Rouge, Louisiana) fell victim to the unprecedented Louisiana flooding events of 2016. USA Today noted that some parts of Louisiana received more than two feet of rain. The estimated volume of 7.1 trillion gallons of water is three times the amount of rain Hurricane Katrina dropped on Louisiana in 2005.
Flooding killed 13 people, damaged 60,000 homes and triggered an estimated 30,000 rescues.
Madison Prep boys basketball coach Jeff Jones, whose own home was damaged by floodwater, said the impact of the 2016 flood still lingers in Baton Rouge.