About two hours before the scheduled tipoff, Monday night’s men’s basketball game between Miami and North Carolina in Chapel Hill was postponed, ACC announced.
The decision came hours after The Daily Tar Heel, a North Carolina student newspaper, posted a Snapchat video showing UNC Day’Ron Sharpe and Armando Bacot’s parties without masks, along with other young people who also don’t wear masks on Saturday after UNC 91-87 win over Duke.
A source told ESPN that the video and the league’s decision to postpone the game, scheduled to start at 19.00 ET, are connected. Andy Fledderjohann, a spokesman for the league, referred to the ACC statement when asked if the video influenced the decision. He also said that ACC “has no other information to provide.”
“The postponement follows a meeting of staff from both schools, who mutually concluded that the game could not advance today,” the league’s statement said.
In the short video, Sharpe and Bacot, who combined for 27 points on Saturday in the victory over their main rivals, are shown with several people in one room, as the music plays in the background.
The ACC’s health and safety protocols list several reasons for postponing a game, including “inability to properly track contacts in accordance with government requirements or recommendations” and “inability to isolate new positive cases or in quarantine cases of high risk of contact of university students traveling and home. “