What’s it say about me that my Saturday is now at least semi ruined?
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Bummer, the only game worth watching in both football and basketball today.
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Damnit. Started my 1 week CBS free trial this morning just for that game
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Game day is at BYU-Coastal Carolina. Just that kind of year I guess.
Which itself was a midweek COVID replacement game!
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Using Yahoo’s schedule, 25% (17 of 67) of the games originally scheduled for today have been cancelled or postponed. Yikes.
Crap. Uconn/ NC State also cancelled which sucks because I wanted to see NCST play and it would have helped our strength of schedule.
The larger issue is that it puts the NCSU game in doubt for now.
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Yea that occurred to me as well, but I wasn’t sure if the positives were on Uconn or NCSt (or both)
NC State had a positive and went home from Mohegan Sun.
The positive came from NC State.
And Indiana-Wisconsin would be worthwhile except Penix tore his ACL.
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CBB is going to be tough to do these next few months. On the other hand, a vaccine is coming in a matter of weeks. The players could be vaccinated by January or February depending on how they do the rollout.
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College basketball players will not be any where near first in line for a vaccine. I haven’t heard the most recent news but last I heard was a national role out wouldn’t be until this summer
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It definitely won’t be after the summer. The last adults are supposed to be getting it by June at the latest. April or May is more likely.
Michigan was talking about possibly giving it to their students as part of phase 1B in a call yesterday to medical staff. I think they were talking about at risk students so athletes likely wouldn’t qualify. We’ll see.
Without a vaccine, the only real way to do a season safely and with minimal disruptions is with a bubble environment. Otherwise, all these cancellations will continue.
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Fauci said April, may, or June for normal people. Meaning under 65 and not an essential worker. The the vaccine also has 2 parts that are administered 3 weeks apart so the absolute earliest young adults would be vaccinated is May.
I’m sure Universities will lobby for students to get it earlier, as will other groups lobby to be in an earlier group, but that just doesn’t make sense. At risk students, yes.
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If NCS can’t play then I hope we can find a quality opponent for a makeup game. Our OOC strength of schedule will be pretty bad otherwise.
I feel like it will be hard for the committee to hold non con SOS too much against the schools with stuff like this happening. But I agree I am worried about it
This is all true. Universities are going to lobby to get their students vaccinated because then it allows them to open up and get them all back on campus. I know the Ivy’s are going to make a similar push. They’ll probably lose out but there is significant lobbying going on.
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Ball State just picked up their first win, 68-66 at home over the previously undefeated UIC Fighting Yaklich’s. Ball State is now 1-1 vs Horizon teams (1 point loss to NKU) and UIC is 2-1 vs MAC teams (4 point win vs NIU and 2 point win vs CMU).
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