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Aircraft Carrier To Turn Into College Basketball Court For Veterans Day -- Time
Michigan State and North Carolina will face off on the USS Carl Vinson.
When your basketball game is on a massive aircraft carrier, why not have more than one court?
As two top-10 college basketball teams—Michigan State and North Carolina—prepare to play in the first-ever carrier classic in San Diego, crews must set up two different courts on the USS Carl Vinson in case the Southern California weather doesn’t hold out. And with rain in the forecast for San Diego Bay on Friday evening, nobody knows which of the two courts will get used.
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