Friday, January 10, 2025

Hoops on a flat top a daunting task to organizers

CORONADO, Calif. (AP) – Staging the first NCAA college basketball game on the flight deck of an aircraft carrier is going to be a task as big as the USS Carl Vinson itself.

Just less than five months before North Carolina and Michigan State are scheduled to play on Veterans Day, officials from the Navy, ESPN and the Morale Entertainment Foundation spent a few hours Monday inspecting the flat top, which last month buried Osama bin Laden at sea.

Read more the entire Sports Illustrated story here.



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