OT- How concerned should we be about CoronaVirus impact?

[Fieldhouse Flyer]

Well it’s “start of the season” week. And in news Scott Drew has C-19, and it’s looking like the preseason tourney with Baylor, ASU and BC might be cancelled. Yay! College Hoops 2020-21. Preseason top 3 and good chance the season will be a complete s-show. Awesome.

Most unfortunately, I agree. With two days until college basketball season begins, the virus numbers are spiralling out of control.


United States Coronavirus Cases – Worldometer – updated continuously

Total Coronavirus Cases in the United States

March 24, 2020: 58,021
Increase ....... + 876,534

April 24, 2020: 934,555
Increase ....... + 769,082

May 24, 2020: 1,703,637
Increase ........ + 763,634

June 24, 2020: 2,467,271
Increase ....... + 1,797,111

July 24, 2020: 4,264,382
Increase ...... + 1,669,209

Aug. 24, 2020: 5,933,591
Increase ...... + 1,251,880

Sept. 24, 2020: 7,185,471
Increase ....... + 1,654,332

Oct. 24, 2020: 8,839,803
Increase ..... + 3,753,358

Nov. 23, 2020: 12,593,161

[Fieldhouse Flyer]

The long-awaited beginning of the college basketball season is finally here – on the same day as the total number of reported coronavirus cases in the country surpasses 13,000,000.

Two days before season opens, COVID-19 positives force college basketball programs to cancel - Cassandra Negley·Writer, Yahoo – November 24, 2020

Two days before the scheduled start to its season, college basketball is experiencing an onslaught of cancellations and positive COVID-19 tests. By 1 p.m. ET on Monday, programs around the country were canceling season openers due to positive tests, and in some cases, completely opting out of the season.

It’s proving how difficult it will be for the sport to reach March Madness and underscores the potential of large outbreaks just as the Centers for Disease Control is advising people not to travel. Read on …

The link in the Yahoo article above is to a spreadsheet entitled ‘Covid-19 positive test among NCAA basketball programs’, published by The Buffalo News and updated daily. It is well worth a look.

[Fieldhouse Flyer]

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College basketball schedule 2020-21: Oklahoma latest to postpone or cancel games due to COVID-19 - Kyle Boone, CBS Sports – November 25, 2020

As developments continue to unfold, we'll be tracking all the latest news and notes surrounding scheduling snafus below in our tracker.

Notable postponements or cancellations:

Nov. 25: UTSA at Oklahoma
Nov. 25: Virginia vs. Maine (Uncasville, Connecticut)
Nov. 25: Central Arkansas at Ole MIss
Nov. 25: Gardner-Webb at Duke
Nov. 25: Northern Arizona at Arizona
Nov. 25-27: Creighton at Crossover Classic (Sioux Falls, South Dakota)
Nov. 25-27: Texas A&M at Crossover Classic (Sioux Falls)
Nov. 25: Western Illinois at DePaul
Nov. 25: UMass Lowell vs. Florida
Nov. 25: Stanford vs. Utah Valley
Nov. 25: Drexel at Penn State
Nov. 26: Baylor vs. Arizona State at Empire Classic (Uncasville)
Nov. 26: Jackson State vs. Ole Miss
Nov. 27: Arkansas State at Ole Miss
Nov. 27; Baylor at Empire Classic (Uncasville)
Nov. 27: Virginia vs. Florida (Uncasville)
Nov. 27: Florida State vs. Gardner-Webb
Nov. 28 Oklahoma at UCF
Nov. 28: Chicago State at DePaul
Nov. 29: Baylor at Seton Hall
Nov. 29: Gardner-Webb at Georgia
Dec. 1: Alcorn State at DePaul
Dec. 5: Ole Miss at Memphis

All games: Bethune-Cookman, Maryland-Eastern Shore, Ivy League (Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Penn, Princeton, and Yale.

[ArmyVet]

A little more than a year ago this thread was started.

In the last 24 hours, the following teams have had a positive test and forced to withdraw from their respective league tournaments:
Duke
Virginia
Kansas

How long will this list be?

[Demon22]

DePaul is only a couple hundred positive COVID tests away from an NCAA Tournament bid.

[sju88grad]

DePaul is only a couple hundred positive COVID tests away from an NCAA Tournament bid.

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