Big East announces change to COVID cancellation policy

[HuskyNan]

BIG EAST Announces Change to Basketball Game Cancellation Policy

The BIG EAST Conference today announced a modification to its game cancellation policy for men’s and women’s basketball for the 2021-22 season. The adjustment was the result of the recent sudden and significant increases in the number of COVID-19 cases nationally and within BIG EAST programs due...

www.bigeast.com

 

[Huskee11]

Good, no forfeitures.

 

[visitingcock]

sEC did the same today. I imagine all conferences will - but you never know about the CalPAC

 

[baggerbob]

BIG EAST Announces Change to Basketball Game Cancellation Policy

The BIG EAST Conference today announced a modification to its game cancellation policy for men’s and women’s basketball for the 2021-22 season. The adjustment was the result of the recent sudden and significant increases in the number of COVID-19 cases nationally and within BIG EAST programs due...

www.bigeast.com

Glad to see that reason overcame stupidity. There is no reason that a team should get a conference win for not playing in the current situation. This comment is for all the conferences who had this stupid rule, that wasn't well thought out.

 

[UcMiami]

The situation has changed significantly between August and December - in August getting a vaccination was thought to be pretty bullet proof in preventing outbreaks and most schools were planning on 100% vaccination in their atheletics departments if not in the whole student body. The idea that schools would be unable to field full teams was far fetched.

Come December and professional leagues and colleges are having to adjust plans based on cases clusters messing with rosters. It only makes sense to change the conference rules at this point.

 

[Centerstream]

ACC did it too

 

[ShmiCO]

I think it's a good policy change, but it made me wonder about the rules for qualifying & seeding for the BE tournament. If a team is unlucky and is unable to reschedule all games, how is their record compared to the other teams in the conference?

 

[eebmg]

I think it's a good policy change, but it made me wonder about the rules for qualifying & seeding for the BE tournament. If a team is unlucky and is unable to reschedule all games, how is their record compared to the other teams in the conference?

I am guessing they would adopt last year's approach which I think is as follows:


As long as you play more games than a specific threshold, seedings would be based on winning percentage.