The Navy has given the final approval for the Carrier Classic, a basketball game between Michigan State and North Carolina which will take place on the flight deck of the USS Carl Vinson on Veterans Day.
This will serve as the first NCAA basketball game on an active flat top.
According to Rear Admiral Dennis Moynihan, the Navy’s chief spokesman, and Mike Whalen, director of the Morale Entertainment Foundation, the organization putting on the event, the game itself will go on without any cost to tax payers and without operational issues that would adversely affect the Navy.