Duquesne finally home after team bus stuck in snow for more than 30 hours
Duquesne beat George Mason 86-75 on Friday in a game that was moved up because of the snow but then the Dukes' team bus got stuck on the Pennsylvania Turnpike.
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UPDATE: After more than 30 hours of travel, the Dukes finally made it home.
Home sweet home. 30 hours, 24 minutes after departure. pic.twitter.com/VE59xGsudd
— Duquesne Basketball (@DuqMBB) January 24, 2016
Duquesne coach Jim Ferry celebrated his 300th career victory on Friday at George Mason, an 86-75 win, but the Dukes never made it back to celebrate that evening because of the heavy snowfall associated with Winter Storm Jonas.
The Dukes' Twitter account posted this photo of the team stranded in at least a foot of snow on the Pennsylvania turnpike.
Just stepped off the bus | at least 18" of snow outside the door pic.twitter.com/F0aSPZFbWK
— Duquesne Athletics (@GoDuquesne) January 23, 2016
.@DuqMBB now 9 hrs in same spot | safe on warm bus | hoping others out here are as fortunate #PATurnpike pic.twitter.com/xU8pMrmnUK
— Duquesne Athletics (@GoDuquesne) January 23, 2016
Duquesne basketball team stranded on bus overnight as #JonasBlizzard slams the east coast. https://t.co/8XSUoiqkAG pic.twitter.com/1gi3YMM0tV
— SportsCenter (@SportsCenter) January 23, 2016
Ferry said Saturday morning on ESPN's SportsCenter that everyone was safe but the team, at the time, was still waiting to get back to Pittsburgh.
"It's been a heck of an experience," Ferry told ESPN on Saturday morning. "... We were making good time, kept track of the storm and we're doing well. Then about 9:15 last night, it was a dead stop and we haven't moved since."
The game was moved up because of the winter storm but clearly an adverse result was not avoided. Several other games have been moved because of the storm this weekend; you can check out all the latest updates here.
