OT: BC to play FL State with only 4 scholarship players.

[RichZ]

Report: Boston College vs. FSU Postponed After Positive COVID-19 Test

Boston College recently went 11 days without basketball activities and have not played since January 16.

www.si.com

So how is it we can't play games because someone was once in a room with someone who knew someone who may have had Covid, but BC is forced to play with practice players because more than half their team is down with it?

 

[mussels]

Seems to me that with respect to basketball, doing the exact opposite of BC is a pretty sound strategy.

 

[UconnU]

Anyone else concerned that we will be heavily penalized by the selection committee if we end up playing significantly less games than other teams? I was reading Borges article yesterday and Jay Wright is planning on playing every other day later this month to make up games. He seemed extremely concerned about the total number of games his team plays before March. We have played even less games and do not have the same sense of urgency. That struck me.

 

[Tenspro2002]

Anyone else concerned that we will be heavily penalized by the selection committee if we end up playing significantly less games than other teams? I was reading Borges article yesterday and Jay Wright is planning on playing every other day later this month to make up games. He seemed extremely concerned about the total number of games his team plays before March. We have played even less games and do not have the same sense of urgency. That struck me.

I expect to get very little benefit of the doubt for both:
1) playing many fewer games than other teams
2) playing without Bouknight for 6 weeks

 

[mussels]

Anyone else concerned that we will be heavily penalized by the selection committee if we end up playing significantly less games than other teams? I was reading Borges article yesterday and Jay Wright is planning on playing every other day later this month to make up games. He seemed extremely concerned about the total number of games his team plays before March. We have played even less games and do not have the same sense of urgency. That struck me.

I think we'll be fine with the selection committee, but the team needs game experience to gel, experience different matchup challenges, and learn to closeout close games. Without that, it will be hard to get far in a one and done situation. As of this morning we have played fewer games than any other team in the kenpom top 40.

 

[businesslawyer]

Anyone else concerned that we will be heavily penalized by the selection committee if we end up playing significantly less games than other teams? I was reading Borges article yesterday and Jay Wright is planning on playing every other day later this month to make up games. He seemed extremely concerned about the total number of games his team plays before March. We have played even less games and do not have the same sense of urgency. That struck me.

No. Of all the things to be worrying about, I literally can not think of a single one more unlikely than the selection committee penalizing a basketball team because of its state's public health policies during an epidemic.

Computer programs don't penalize you for playing less games. They are perfectly capable of ranking teams who have played different numbers of games.

 

[HuskyHawk]

Report: Boston College vs. FSU Postponed After Positive COVID-19 Test

Boston College recently went 11 days without basketball activities and have not played since January 16.

www.si.com

So how is it we can't play games because someone was once in a room with someone who knew someone who may have had Covid, but BC is forced to play with practice players because half their team is down wth it?

As usual, I feel like we are missing the obvious middle ground between these positions. UConn cancelling Sunday's game was not necessary. This game being played is not necessary. Common sense has completely left the building.

 

[UCLJ0211]

I’d like to watch this game to see how that works out for them.

 

[UKemba15]

I thought BCU’s team was intramural?

 

[Bomber36]

Report: Boston College vs. FSU Postponed After Positive COVID-19 Test

Boston College recently went 11 days without basketball activities and have not played since January 16.

www.si.com

So how is it we can't play games because someone was once in a room with someone who knew someone who may have had Covid, but BC is forced to play with practice players because more than half their team is down with it?

Ouch...that game should be cancelled.

 

[Watchdog]

As usual, I feel like we are missing the obvious middle ground between these positions. UConn cancelling Sunday's game was not necessary. This game being played is not necessary. Common

Report: Boston College vs. FSU Postponed After Positive COVID-19 Test

Boston College recently went 11 days without basketball activities and have not played since January 16.

www.si.com

So how is it we can't play games because someone was once in a room with someone who knew someone who may have had Covid, but BC is forced to play with practice players because more than half their team is down with it?

For us, it's the state's protocols and how they differ from other states. Lots of teams lately have quarantined a player or a few players and still played their games. Hard to believe MA policies would allow BCU to play a game with so many quarantined. Maybe they got a special dispensation from the Pope............

 

[uconngb]

Report: Boston College vs. FSU Postponed After Positive COVID-19 Test

Boston College recently went 11 days without basketball activities and have not played since January 16.

www.si.com

So how is it we can't play games because someone was once in a room with someone who knew someone who may have had Covid, but BC is forced to play with practice players because more than half their team is down with it?

Because they are not Dook

 

[BigFanCT]

No. Of all the things to be worrying about, I literally can not think of a single one more unlikely than the selection committee penalizing a basketball team because of its state's public health policies during an epidemic.

Computer programs don't penalize you for playing less games. They are perfectly capable of ranking teams who have played different numbers of games.

Actually, I couldn't think of a more likely scenario. It gives them a perfect excuse for when needing to explain what they may have gotten wrong- which they have to do every year, pandemic or not. Suffice it to say it's in our best interest to play as many games as we can...especially when there are other teams from states that are the same, if not MORE "unforgiving" towards COVID. NYC comes to mind....and a team from there that scrambled and scheduled a game on Sunday due to a cancellation from a certain other team.

Do we know if we are even practicing yet?

 

[huskymedic]

Can’t make this up... BC bailed out by FSU.

 

[Palatine]

No. Of all the things to be worrying about, I literally can not think of a single one more unlikely than the selection committee penalizing a basketball team because of its state's public health policies during an epidemic.

Computer programs don't penalize you for playing less games. They are perfectly capable of ranking teams who have played different numbers of games.

I don't know. I may be paranoid but it's like the NCAA looks for reasons to punish us. I have little faith.

As a side note. Every state thinks they are following the science. And none of what Connecticut has done has made Connecticut any safer than anywhere else.

 

[willie99]

Seems to me we have the most restrictive policies in the country, outside of the IVY league.

Has athletic competition at any level turned into some super spreader event? They're playing games at every level in many communities. Sure athletes get sick, so do people living in a bubble, so that's not my question.

Are athletes at any level becoming seriously ill? Hospitalized? Or heaven forbid dying?

Have athletes playing at any level been connected to super spreader events involving friends and families?

I'm for taking precautions. I'm also about observing and learning from others. I don't think being at one extreme or the other is good for anybody. This post is intended to be apolitical, I'm advocating a more rational and uniform policy for playing games and living life.

 

[navery12]

Anyone else concerned that we will be heavily penalized by the selection committee if we end up playing significantly less games than other teams? I was reading Borges article yesterday and Jay Wright is planning on playing every other day later this month to make up games. He seemed extremely concerned about the total number of games his team plays before March. We have played even less games and do not have the same sense of urgency. That struck me.

No

 

[XLCenterFan]

It’s especially odd because mass seems to have stricter covid protocols than CT, and they definitely have a robust system for testing and contacting individuals that have tested positive to keep tabs on them.