About two hours before the scheduled outing, Monday night’s men’s basketball game between Miami and North Carolina at 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 Day’Ron Sharpe and Armando Bacot highlights partying without masks, along with other young people nor do they wear masks on Saturday after the UNC 91-87 win over Duke.
A source told ESPN that the video and the league’s decision to postpone the game, which would begin at 7 p.m. ET, are connected. Andy Fledderjohann, a league spokesman, was referring to the ACC statement when asked if the video influenced the decision. He also said the ACC “has no more information to provide.”
“The postponement comes after a staff meeting of the two schools, who mutually concluded that the match could not move forward today,” the league said in a statement.
In the short video, Sharpe and Bacot, who added 27 points when they beat their main rivals on Saturday, are shown staying with several people in one room while the music plays in the background.
ACC health and safety protocols list several reasons for postponing a game, including the “inability to properly track contacts in accordance with government requirements or recommendations” and the “inability to isolate new positive cases. or to quarantine high risk of contact university students from the travel and home team “.