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Georgetown-Florida called at halftime, wet court

The men's basketball game between No. 10 Florida and Georgetown on the deck of a ship was called off at halftime Friday night because the court became too wet.Florida led 27-23 at the break in the Navy-Marine Corps Classic when the matchup aboard the USS Bataan was stopped by the court condensation. The game will not count and will not be made up."It was all about student-athlete welfare," said Alan Verlander, the director of sports and entertainment for the city of Jacksonville. "We did not want to affect anyone's season if someone went down. It's an unfortunate situation, but it was still a spectacular event."We've got to go back to work and maybe become meteorologists and do some things different. We and the Navy are committed to the event and doing it right."Earlier in the evening, the men's game between No. 4 Ohio State and Marquette on the USS Yorktown in South Carolina was canceled before it began for the same reason.The cancellations aboard the ships cast doubt on whether these...

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