Niagara Women S Hoops Team Was Stranded On Bus For More Than A Day

The Purple Eagles lost to Pittsburgh in the Steel City on Monday night and hit the road around 10 p.m. They were about three hours into the four-hour trek back to campus when the blizzard hit and the bus got stuck.

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As of 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, the bus still hadn’t been freed from its snowed-in post on a thruway which has since been closed.

It’s unclear when the thruway will re-open or when it will become safe for the team to continue on back to Niagara’s campus in Lewiston, N.Y.

UPDATE (10:42 p.m.): The team is still stranded, now more than 24 hours after its departure, according to head coach Kendra Faustin.

UPDATE 2 (6:22 a.m. Wednesday): The traveling party is safe and headed back to campus:

(Sources: ABC News, WIVB-TV)