USC and Brown have mutually agreed to cancel their upcoming males’s basketball sport at Galen Heart on Sunday, in gentle of the current mass taking pictures on Brown’s campus.
USC introduced the cancellation on Tuesday morning whereas sending its help to Brown and people affected. The varsity mentioned in an announcement that it plans to announce a brand new nonconference opponent to fill the identical slot on Sunday.
The matchup with Brown was slated to be USC’s nonconference finale. The Trojans have but to lose outdoors of Massive Ten play this season, presently standing at 9-0.
USC was set to be Brown’s first opponent since this previous Sunday, when two individuals have been killed and 9 have been wounded in a lethal taking pictures on campus.
On Sunday night time, USC ladies’s basketball coach Lindsay Gottlieb, who’s a Brown alumnus, received emotional addressing the taking pictures after her group’s loss to No. 1 Connecticut.
Gottlieb mentioned {that a} former teammate of hers had a daughter nonetheless hiding from the gunman within the basement of a library on the time of Sunday afternoon’s sport.
“It doesn’t should be this manner,” she mentioned. “Sending ideas and prayers to my teammates who’ve youngsters there. To the mother and father which have to fret about their kids, I’m simply going to finish it with that, however simply to say we’re the one nation that lives this manner.”
