About two hours before the scheduled tip, Monday night’s men’s basketball game between Miami and North Carolina in Chapel Hill was postponed, the ACC announced.
The decision came hours after The Daily Tar Heel, the North Carolina student newspaper, posted a Snapchat video showing UNC highlights Day’Ron Sharpe and Armando Bacot partying without a mask on, along with other young people who also don’t wear masks on Saturday after UNCs. 91-87 win over Duke.
A source told ESPN that the video and the league’s decision to postpone the game, which is scheduled for 7 p.m. ET, are linked. Andy Fledderjohann, a league spokesman, referred to the ACC’s statement when asked whether the video influenced the decision. He also said the ACC “has no further information to provide”.
“The postponement follows a meeting of staff from both schools, who mutually concluded that the competition could not continue today,” the league’s statement said.
In the short video, Sharpe and Bacot, who together scored 27 points in Saturday’s victory over their main rivals, are seen hanging out with several people in a room with music playing in the background.
The ACC’s health and safety protocols list multiple reasons for delaying a game, including the “ inability to conduct adequate contact tracking in accordance with government requirements or recommendations ” and the “ inability to isolate new positive cases, ” or to quarantine cases of high contact risk from the game. traveling and university students from the home team. “