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Richmond had to be rescued after a snow drift ensnared its bus

Jeff Eisenberg
·Senior writer
Richmond's team bus got stuck in a snow drift on Wednesday night (via Richmond Basketball)
Richmond's team bus got stuck in a snow drift on Wednesday night (via Richmond Basketball)

Securing only its second road win of the season Wednesday night at St. Bonaventure wasn't Richmond's greatest challenge of the evening.

That was a distant second to making it home from snow-covered Western New York.

The bus driver who was taking the Spiders to the airport after their 71-56 victory missed a turn and tried to make an ill-fated u-turn. That proved to be a very poor choice as the bus got stuck in a snow drift for about two hours until a tow truck came along to pull it out.

While Richmond's misadventure was routine compared to the 24-hour ordeal endured earlier this winter by the Niagara women's basketball team, the Spiders still made light of their situation on social media as they waited to be rescued. The best of the #URStuck hashtag is below:

style="margin: 8px 0 0 0; padding: 0 4px;">Spiders stuck in a snow bank #onerichmond #getusoutofhere #urstuck

A photo posted by Matt Smith (@spidur) on Feb 18, 2015 at 7:40pm PST

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Jeff Eisenberg is the editor of The Dagger on Yahoo Sports. Have a tip? Email him at daggerblog@yahoo.com or follow him on Twitter!