UConn - DePaul game Friday Dec 31 has been canceled [merged thread]

[Carnac]

NEW YORK – The BIG EAST Conference has announced that the Connecticut at DePaul women’s basketball game, which was scheduled for Friday, December 31, has been canceled due to COVID issues within the UConn program.

Per the BIG EAST game cancellation policy, the Conference office will attempt to reschedule the game in accordance with the parameters of the policy.

 

[Bald Husky]

Do you believe it, CoVid has hit our team now. Lots of practice time, but this is getting scary again.

 

[hoopsfan22]

Silver lining is it gives more time for our injured players to get healthy. They just bought an extra week with tomorrow's and Friday's games being canceled.

 

[Ct Dog]

SMH

 

[JellyBean]

Whoa.

 

[rt bb fan]

Everyone went home for the holidays. Probably the norm for many college games being cancelled.

 

[EricLA]

So bummed, but tend to agree - more time for players to get healthy. Not sure how much practicing they can do tho. I will be curious to see if they shut that down too, or report about it.

 

[Carnac]

NEW YORK – The BIG EAST Conference has announced that the Connecticut at DePaul women’s basketball game, which was scheduled for Friday, December 31, has been canceled due to COVID issues within the UConn program.

Per the BIG EAST game cancellation policy, the Conference office will attempt to reschedule the game in accordance with the parameters of the policy.

Courant article on game cancelation:

UConn women’s basketball hit with second consecutive canceled conference game, this time due to COVID-19 issues in its own program

The UConn women’s basketball team has now had its second game back from the holiday break canceled due to COVID-19 issues — this time, ones within the Huskies’ program. UConn anno…

www.courant.com

 

[Aluminny69]

Does the CDC change in quarantine time for 10 days to 5 days affect NCAA? They should probably adjust their protocols.

 

[Penn]

I was really looking forward to watching the DePaul game this week especially after the cancellation of the Marquette game.

 

[MSGRET]

The next Prognosticators Prediction thread will be posted on 01/02/22. Happy New Year everyone and stay safe. Hopefully they will actually play the Georgetown game without any more cancellations.

 

[Viet Vet]

Deja Vu, all over again!

 

[Alydar]

This mess is probably less disruptive for UConn than a lot of otherwise healthy teams. Let the returning injured get back into shape for a week instead of jumping right into games.

 

[BostonBay]

Move the season back a month, and this will give more time for Paige to recover.

 

[Huskie02]

Do you believe it, CoVid has hit our team now. Lots of practice time, but this is getting scary again.

Can anything else go wrong for this team between injuries and now Covid! At least it gives the injured more time to recover.

 

[oldude]

Does the CDC change in quarantine time for 10 days to 5 days affect NCAA? They should probably adjust their protocols.

I don’t believe teams are necessarily adhering to a 10 day isolation/quarantine period. What I suspect they are doing is requiring 2 negative tests to return to practice/games. One of the concerns with the new CDC 5-day policy is that there is no testing requirement included, just that an individual must be asymptomatic 5 days after a positive test. There is a concern that individuals will have a subjective interpretation of exactly what “asymptomatic” means.

 

[oldude]

As an order of magnitude, there were 23 D1 WBB games scheduled yesterday. 12 games were played. 11 games were canceled/postponed.

 

[HopJim]

Oh no! The less basketball that is played, the more unusual the Boneyard posts get.

 

[JS]

Oh no! The less basketball that is played, the more unusual the Boneyard posts get.

You mean they start getting thoughtful?

 

[Aluminny69]

You mean they start getting thoughtful?

I'll have to think about that...

 

[Boreifs]

As an order of magnitude, there were 23 D1 WBB games scheduled yesterday. 12 games were played. 11 games were canceled/postponed.

It is likely to get even worse

 

[MSGRET]

I've seen that many of the conferences have either stated that the games are canceled or postponed and not forfeited. Today for the first time I saw two games in the NEC were forfeited because of COVID. Does anybody know any other conferences that have kept the forfeit policy. I believe that this is an unfair policy, when this was made many people thought that COVID was behind us. Now there is the Omicron variant and it should not be considered a teams fault if they can't play because someone in the program is positive.

 

[Longtime fan]

NEW YORK – The BIG EAST Conference has announced that the Connecticut at DePaul women’s basketball game, which was scheduled for Friday, December 31, has been canceled due to COVID issues within the UConn program.

Per the BIG EAST game cancellation policy, the Conference office will attempt to reschedule the game in accordance with the parameters of the policy.

Someone suggested that they just cancel all January games. Now that makes sense. It is going to happen anyway. This is death by torture. Just get it over with.

 

[VaConnFan11]

It's never going away! If you are vaccinated, boostered, asymptomatic, whatever else they come up with, PLAY THE GAME!

 

[visitingcock]

Someone suggested that they just cancel all January games. Now that makes sense. It is going to happen anyway. This is death by torture. Just get it over with.

I do think South Carolina and UConn should cancel their January 27 game to open the date to play conference "makeups." I don't think either school has much to gain by playing that game other than fulfilling tv contract obligations and ass many conference games as possible need to be played. Rescheduling DePaul would seem to me to be more important to UConn than a second game against South Carolina.