We told you last week about the possibility that the times of next week's Maryland Public Secondary Schools Athletic Association's girls basketball championships could be altered by the potential presence of the UMBC men's basketball team in the America East Conference finals, since that league plays its championship on the site of the highest remaining seed and the Retrievers are the top team in the league.

The MPSSAA has announced that if UMBC does host the title game, the RAC Arena floor will be unavailable to the high school tournament on Friday, March 14 from 1 p.m. on so that the two college teams could practice and that the floor could be prepared for the Saturday noon tipoff.

In order to maintain the tradition of playing at a Division I facility, the MPSSAA has decided that if UMBC is in the America East game, it will move the semifinals up by one day, with the Class 1A and 2A games played Wednesday, March 12, and the 3A and 4A games played on Thursday, March 13. The 1A final, under this scenario, would be played at 5 p.m. on Saturday, March 15, with the 2A game following at 7 p.m. and the 3A game coming at 9 p.m. The 4A championship game would be played on Monday, March 17 at 7 p.m.

Of course, all bets are off if UMBC gets knocked out of the America East tournament before the finals. The MPSSAA would then revert to the usual format with the semifinals on Thursday and Friday and a quadruple-header of championship games on Saturday.