TSSAA State Tournament Games Postponed Due To Weather

  • Thursday, March 5, 2015

All TSSAA state basketball tournament games scheduled for today have been postponed due to extremely hazardous road conditions.  Today’s schedule will resume tomorrow at 11:00 a.m. in order to allow extra time to for road conditions to improve in the morning.

 

Friday’s scheduled semifinal games will be played on Saturday beginning at 1:30 p.m. due to MTSU’s women’s basketball game that is scheduled game at 10:00 a.m.   Saturday’s scheduled championship games will be played on Sunday.

 

A full schedule of times will be released later today.

 

MTSU and TSSAA officials have been monitoring the weather situation and road conditions since 4:00 a.m. this morning.  “There is no way that we are willing to put any student-athlete’s life in jeopardy in order to try to play a basketball game,” stated Bernard Childress, Executive Director of TSSAA.  “To us, the safety of the student-athletes, coaches, fans, and anyone attending or participating in the state basketball tournament is first and foremost.”

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