Blizzard 2016: How A Basketball Team Survived 24 Hours Stuck On The Highway

Team effort has a new meaning for the Duquesne basketball squad.

After being stuck on the Pennsylvania Turnpike for nearly a day, the men’s basketball team worked together to push their bus out of the mound of snow that had been holding them captive.

But first, they used pizza boxes as snow shovels.

The team was among hundreds who were stranded Saturday on the Pennsylvania Turnpike after a massive blizzard dumped as much as three feet of snow in parts of Pennsylvania, leaving the region crippled.

The team was returning from a game at George Mason when they became a part of a miles-long pileup in Somerset County that required a response from the National Guard. The New York Times reports the team boarded the bus at 4:30 p.m. and only made one stop at convenience store before they were completely halted in the blizzard on their way back to Pittsburgh.

The team’s turnpike predicament, which began at Friday at 9:15 p.m. and ended around 7:30 p.m. Saturday, was well-documented on social media. And it looks like they made the most of the situation.

Photos posted to Twitter show team members making snow angels and hanging out with other stranded travelers.

The team posted the following video to YouTube of the team bus-pushing effort.

Another video was shared of the reaction to finally being on the move. The applause speaks for itself.