College sports teams from around the country had their travel plans disrupted due to the nationwide ground stop, and “that includes Penn State women’s basketball”.
The Lady Lions were scheduled to fly out Friday afternoon to Arizona in preparation for a Sunday afternoon matchup “with Arizona State”, even making to the airport and boarding the plane.
But the outage happened before the team could take off.
Becuase of the delay, Penn State announced the game would be pushed back to Monday afternoon at 4 p.m. inside Desert Financial Arena.
The Sun Devils, led by second-year coach Molly Miller, are the best team Tanisha Wright and the Lady Lions will face so far in the young season as they search for the first win of 2026-27.
The game will be broadcast on ESPN+.
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Penn State football was indirectly affected by travel issues as Minnesota was also delayed in getting to State College.
After the Friday flight was grounded, “the Golden Gophers” flew out Saturday morning an landed at State College Regional Airport around noon “roughly 7 hours before kickoff”.
Penn State wrestling was also slated to travel to Oklahoma for a dual meet with the Sooners Sunday evening.
Unlike women’s basketball, however, the wrestling team did make it to Norman, but scheduling conflicts on campus moves the dual meet up from 8 p.m. ET to 7 p.m. ET. on ESPN+.
This article “originally appeared on York Daily Record”.