On Saturday, school basketball followers across the nation settled in for a top quality Saturday afternoon matchup between No. 1 Auburn and No. 17 Kentucky—a sport deemed vital sufficient to make a uncommon (for school basketball) sojourn onto ABC.
Nonetheless, protection didn’t go in response to plan.
Halfway by the second half of the Tigers’ eventual 94–78 win, ABC abruptly reduce away from the sport—bouncing from a unique school sport to NHL protection. The change—attributed on the time to “technical difficulties”—took followers without warning.
As soon as the sport was over, a Wildcats spokesperson shared a statement with Ryan Black of the (Louisville) Courier Journal outlining what occurred.
“The published manufacturing group skilled technical difficulties in the course of the second half of the sport,” they stated. “There was a fireplace affecting the ABC generator gear powering their manufacturing truck. It was shortly extinguished, but it surely prompted the printed feed to lose energy.”
For Kentucky followers subjected to Auburn guard Miles Kelly’s 9 three-pointers, lacking the tip of the sport might have been a aid.