Coming Soon To An Aircraft Carrier Near You: UNC vs Michigan State Basketball Game

I never heard it, but seven yeas ago then Michigan State AD Mark Hollis mentioned that he’d like to play a basketball game on a docked aircraft carrier. Yes, an aircraft carrier…one of those big ass boats that fighter jets take from. Well now it looks as though Hollis crazy dream might come true because yesterday in a text to the Lansing State Journal he stated that an announcement about the game “is forthcoming“.

But you can’t just have any old college basketball game on aircraft carrier…it has to be a big game. Which its rumored that Michigan State has recruited UNC to play on the carrier on Veterans Day of next year. Now that’s Kim Kardashian ass big, but is it even possible?

And the answer to that is yes. The biggest of the carriers are the Gerald R. Ford class carriers and they are weigh over 100,000 tons and are over 1,000 feet in length with a flight deck around 250 feet in width. Mind you a college basketball court is only 94 x 50 feet.

Currently there are 10 of these Nimitz carriers stationed around the world, but if they were to hold a game on one of them I would suspect it would be either on the USS Nimitz or USS Ronald Reagan both of which are stationed in San Diego…so you wouldn’t have to worry about weather.

via SB Nation