ANOTHER WEEK, another setback.

Local basketball fans will have to wait another week for the highly anticipated showdown between rivals Garrison Secondary and Start De Town St Michael in the United Insurance Basketball Division 2 Tournament.

The stage was set and the battle lines were drawn at the Martindale's Road court on Monday, but the weather had the final say as persistent showers made play impossible, leaving one of the baselines drenched at game time.

Now, the long-standing adversaries and their huge fan bases will have to wait until Monday to renew their heated rivalry at the same venue.

With the contest being postponed on a prior occasion, the wait has become almost unbearable for those involved considering the high stakes at risk as bragging rights weren't the only thing on the line.

Sporting similar unblemished 11-0 records, Garrison and their hosts entered the regular season finale as the big guns of the competition with the coveted league crown at stake.

And the storylines are endless.

Combining to win four of the last six titles, the two former champions will be looking to regain past glory after Coleridge & Parry stole their respective thunder last season.

The game was also set to feature the league's brightest stars in prolific St Michael swingman Darren Hunte and dominant Garrison centre John Jones.

Being the focal point of their respective squads' game-plan, the two prodigious talents figured to match-up against each other at both ends of the court during the high-profile encounter.

Their supporting casts will be equally as decisive to the game's outcome, with the tournament's best backcourt pairings set to have their own in-game battle.

Garrison's duo of Justin Maloney and Jodie Williams will invariably look to push the ball in transition at every given opportunity against their opposite numbers, Raheem Elliot and Shakeir Bayne, who are at their best when they play a similar uptempo game.

But the biggest plot will be surrounding the teams' well documented rivalry, which is as big in local basketball as that of the one between the Clapham Bulls and Station Hill Cavaliers.