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AuRevoirAAC said:
We desperately need Creighton to stay healthy as well. Hopefully their protocols for the next week will be just as strict as ours.

Let’s not forget, Vandy had to cancel on us even before we had it in our own organization.
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They have 2 games between now and then, home and away, so let's hope for the best. I'm more worried about what we are going to look like after all this time off, with the first quarantine too. Must be difficult to get that cauldron of intensity brewing again, but I hope hurley can do it.
 
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UConn men return to practice Sunday, will remain in ‘modified quarantine’ this week

Coach Dan Hurley said last week it is likely the Huskies will not be able to play more nonconfernce games this season, so the focus will be on getting 20 Big East games in. Most campuses, including UConn, are clear of most students with no in-person classes until late January, so the Big East, for now, is sticking to with on-campus games. The possibility of moving all teams into a bubble setting, like Mohegan Sun, is for future consideration.
After Creighton, UConn has a game at DePaul on Dec. 23, but that game is in question as DePaul is in a suspension.

The Huskies’ first positive test on Nov. 5 involved one player. This second shutdown was prompted by a player and a non-tier-one individual testing positive on Dec. 6.
 
GemParty said:
Surprised we can’t lineup up a local game Friday night to get ready for a top team.
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Do we have that option? Seems reasonable we can clear our guys by Wed after 10 days of testing.
 
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Crazy to think they will have enough time to be prepped for Creighton without playing for so long and hardly practicing. It’s everything that makes this season so crazy. I mean these guys weren’t ready for Creighton 10-12 days ago.

I guess ya never know.
 
Beggars can't be choosers, but how strange is it that we are now playing Creighton for our return to the Big East? I know it's not the Big East of old, but It looks like it will be a little while before things start to look familiar again.
 
So two players have had COVID to date? 11 players to go and they’ll achieve team immunity. Might as well go for it.
 
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MuchoDogYears said:
So two players have had COVID to date? 11 players to go and they’ll achieve team immunity. Might as well go for it.
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Yeah that seems to have worked out well for the kid on Florida, right?
 
AuRevoirAAC said:
We desperately need Creighton to stay healthy as well. Hopefully their protocols for the next week will be just as strict as ours.

Let’s not forget, Vandy had to cancel on us even before we had it in our own organization.
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Seems elementary, but there should be 1-2 backup games for each scheduled game. We seem less prepared than other schools.
 
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How much will we jump in the KenPom (currently # 48) simply by playing Creighton (#11)?
 
Hope we win but if we lose it will be the best lost I've ever felt at UConn!

And yes to me that would qualify as a moral victory in my book. Would be the first one in program history.
 
Chief00 said:
Chief would like to believe putting a little heat on Dave and the CT Health Commissioner helped clear a path for these adjustments. But it’s unimportant how this came to be, the important thing is it happened. We need even more flexibility going forward. Therefore, Chief also put a little bird in the Governor’s ear how we can’t play sports competitively under this oppressive Commissioner. Thus far, contact tracing has not traced one outbreak to actually playing a game.
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This is, undoubtedly, the leader in the clubhouse for the "Most Chief00-y Post of All Time". Spit out my coffee reading it!!!
 
Dabutlerdidit said:
How much will we jump in the KenPom (currently # 48) simply by playing Creighton (#11)?
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There will be a KenPom spread: an expectation of many points a team will win or lose by. If UConn does better than expectation they will move up. If UConn does work than KenPom spread they move down. Just playing Crieghton alone won't move them up. So as an example if it's Creighton -3, UConn needs to lose by less than 3 or win outright to move up.
 
BParkDog said:
Wow. Give the kid a break, he's in critical condition in the ICU.
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Sorry what? You think I’m being insensitive? I was pointing out to someone saying in essence “let the whole team get COVID” that it’s insensitive because a kid passed out and is in critical condition and he had a bout with COVID earlier in the year
 
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