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freescooter said:
There is a simple solution. Double headers. Play one at noon and another at 9. These guys are young and love to play. The most important thing is to get every game in. I mean, how will you seed the tournament if say Villanova has only played 16 games and Creighton played 20? Just hypothetical numbers so don’t get hung up on them. Then say Creighton goes 16-4 and Villanova goes 13-3, but it’s SOS IS worse because of the schools it missed. It could end up being pretty unfair. So my view is double headers. You could do it best at a bubble, but if say UConn plays Xavier @ Xavier it gets PC twice at Gampel. Then the week before the BET everyone comes to MSG a week early and just plays makeup games. Maybe you play at 10 and 7. But got to get them in.
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Double headers? You are nuts! Dan Hurley was upset that the Nova game was scheduled two days after Butler! The most important thing is getting all the game in? That is most certainly NOT the most important thing. How about the well being of the players? You think injuries are bad now? Add double headers. When guys are tired (which they are after playing all out for a Division I basketball game) they will be more prone to injury. All it takes is dragging a foot slightly because a guy is tired and there goes an ankle or knee. It's Covid time. Everyone knows there's no way for everyone to be on an even playing field going into the tournament. It is what it is this year.
 
Basically, any missed games at this point means that's one fewer game we're playing this year. At this point I'm not rooting for any more missed games, even without Bouknight. I doubt it's possible but I'm hoping we can squeeze in a game this week assuming we're all clear with test results.
 
So St. John’s get their game with us postponed, reschedules with Marquette today. That’s a team that wants to compete. Wants to play. Wants to get as many games as possible. Doesn’t take weeks off to practice. Scraps to get games. Impressive.
 
BigFanCT said:
So St. John’s get their game with us postponed, reschedules with Marquette today. That’s a team that wants to compete. Wants to play. Wants to get as many games as possible. Doesn’t take weeks off to practice. Scraps to get games. Impressive.
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L m a o.
St. Johns had no reason not to play we are awaiting test results.
 
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ucawn said:
L m a o.
St. Johns had no reason not to play we are awaiting test results.
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When did I say anything about us? I get we are awaiting test results and literally cannot play. Apologies for complimenting a team I would usually dump on. 🙄
 
ucawn said:
L m a o.
St. Johns had no reason not to play we are awaiting test results.
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Why didn't we test on Friday/Saturday and get results already? Seems awfully slow and we should have know by a day before Sunday to play the game.
 
3rdbass said:
Why didn't we test on Friday/Saturday and get results already? Seems awfully slow and we should have know by a day before Sunday to play the game.
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They've been testing every day, but they want multiple days of negative tests before playing
 
Big Cranky said:
Double headers? You are nuts! Dan Hurley was upset that the Nova game was scheduled two days after Butler! The most important thing is getting all the game in? That is most certainly NOT the most important thing. How about the well being of the players? You think injuries are bad now? Add double headers. When guys are tired (which they are after playing all out for a Division I basketball game) they will be more prone to injury. All it takes is dragging a foot slightly because a guy is tired and there goes an ankle or knee. It's Covid time. Everyone knows there's no way for everyone to be on an even playing field going into the tournament. It is what it is this year.
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We are shipping guys all over the country. Nobody gives a hoot about players’ well being. Please. Is schools cared about that they’d have.cancelled the season or at minimum set up regional pods. Well being of players! LOL. You are funny.
 
Big Cranky said:
Double headers? You are nuts! Dan Hurley was upset that the Nova game was scheduled two days after Butler! The most important thing is getting all the game in? That is most certainly NOT the most important thing. How about the well being of the players? You think injuries are bad now? Add double headers. When guys are tired (which they are after playing all out for a Division I basketball game) they will be more prone to injury. All it takes is dragging a foot slightly because a guy is tired and there goes an ankle or knee. It's Covid time. Everyone knows there's no way for everyone to be on an even playing field going into the tournament. It is what it is this year.
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Post/handle
 
The double header thing was a goof trying to use as many of the nonsensical justifications for playing that I’ve read here.

oh, and tell Hurley to wear his mask properly. It doesn’t help around his chin...
 
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