INDIANAPOLIS — A weekend blizzard couldn't derail the IU women's basketball team's plans to play in a primetime matchup on Saturday night.

IU is slated to play superstar Caitlin Clark and No. 3 Iowa in Iowa City at 8 p.m. on Saturday night, with Gus Johnson on the call. But with blizzard conditions in Iowa City on Friday, the Hoosiers were having trouble getting out of Bloomington.

IU was aware of the impending storm — it asked to move the flight ahead of the storm to Thursday, but the charter airline it uses did not have any planes available until 2:30 on Friday afternoon.

Iowa already had one major snowstorm this week, with the Des Moines Register reporting that Iowa City got nearly 15 inches of snow on Tuesday. Iowa, which played Purdue in West Lafayette on Wednesday night, left Iowa on Monday to avoid the storm.

Iowa City is under a blizzard watch again on Friday until noon Saturday, and most places in Iowa are supposed to get another 5-10 inches of snow, as well as wind chill temperatures as low as -20 to -45.

IU's flight was moved to Saturday morning and arrived in Cedar Rapids at 10:14 a.m. Most commercial and charter flights in and out of the Cedar Rapids International Airport, where IU is flying into, have been grounded for Friday's blizzard.

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"There's just so much you can control," coach Teri Moren said at her 9:45 a.m. availability. "We cannot control the weather and what it's going to do. We'll do what we have to do, but what we will not do is we will not get in any aircraft that is unsafe. I can promise you that."

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