No. 1 UConn and No. 20 Louisville will open their season at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md., rather than an Air Force base in Germany as a ripple effect of the U.S. government shutdown.

The high-profile women’s basketball programs were set to participate in the Peraton Armed Forces Classic on Ramstein Air Base in Ramstein-Miesenbach, Germany, on Nov. 4. It will be the first edition of the Armed Forces Classic to feature women’s teams.

Due to the shutdown, which began Oct. 1 after Congress missed the deadline to pass a bill to fund the government, many federal employees are not at work. CT Insider reported that military officials at Ramstein stopped communicating about the game with ESPN, which organizes the Armed Forces Classic, on Oct. 6.

“For more than a decade, this event ha

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