Villanova and St. John's games postponed...

[Jbirdp5]

Connecticut has around 600,000 folks 65+. Indiana has over a million. beagle on.

Make an insult because you are an ass that’s fine, but there are many reasons that we had more cases and deaths, many of them not related to policy. But go head and believe whatever you want and say Indiana has a better policy because they are playing a game today

 

[superjohn]

Connecticut has around 600,000 folks 65+. Indiana has over a million. beagle on.

You think you're making a point here. CT. has a population of 3,565,000 Indiana has a population of 6,732,000 and yes CT. has an older population than Indiana. There are a bunch of other factors more important than this but you chose this.

 

[ClifSpliffy]

Make an insult because you are an ass that’s fine, but there are many reasons that we had more cases and deaths, many of them not related to policy. But go head and believe whatever you want and say Indiana has a better policy because they are playing a game today

okey doke:
Indiana has a better policy because they are playing a game today.

 

[Jbirdp5]

okey doke:
Indiana has a better policy because they are playing a game today.

Is that not essentially the point you are making? That’s the bell you’ve been ringing. Haven’t seen you provide anything else

 

[ucawn]

Considering we’ve been paused twice and the women’s team the same(I think)... I don’t think we’ve done a great job controlling it.

 

[HooperScooper]

Connecticut has around 600,000 folks 65+. Indiana has over a million. beagle on.
still waiting for the answer to the simple question - is the but/x game still on?

Would seem to be.

2020-21 Men's Basketball Schedule - Xavier University Athletics

The official 2020-21 Men's Basketball schedule for the Xavier University Musketeers

goxavier.com

Xavier's trip to Butler is pushed back to Saturday to allow for additional COVID testing

Xavier's Friday trip to Butler has been postponed one day to Saturday to allow for additional COVID related testing precautions.

www.cincinnati.com

 

[Edward Sargent]

All I know is its not easy for us Fans to wait this many days for a game and lets face it who do we Boneyarder's care the most about? Fans!

 

[freescooter]

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.

 

[ucawn]

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.

You lost me at double headers.

 

[Improviser]

Considering we’ve been paused twice and the women’s team the same(I think)... I don’t think we’ve done a great job controlling it.

All it takes is for one player or Ref or coach, to slip up, and then comes the shutdown.

Sometimes, it could be something inadvertent, and people are not perfect.

I wouldn't blame it on a program. The Super Bowl teams are in a bubble with strict rules, but if somebody leaves the area to get a pizza or has a girlfriend visit, there goes. Stephen A. had a segment on ESPN about the players not doing what I wrote in the last sentence. "Don't let the Rona ruin the game," or something like that he said.

Requires a lot of discipline and commitment to the goals of the team, putting those ahead of personal desires.

 

[87Xfer]

I think the single tourney location makes great sense. And I can only imagine the planning going into it. I just don't understand why, given this whole mess, the NCAA didn't initially push the damn thing back 3 (or more) weeks to build in room for makeup games, and time for some isolation and testing before it starts.

Seriously, is it all about "March Madness" branding? Were they actually worried about an empty period in schedules? You can always schedule more games, or spread scheduled games out if that unlikely scenario happened.

 

[Jbirdp5]

I think the single tourney location makes great sense. And I can only imagine the planning going into it. I just don't understand why, given this whole mess, the NCAA didn't initially push the damn thing back 3 (or more) weeks to build in room for makeup games, and time for some isolation and testing before it starts.

Seriously, is it all about "March Madness" branding? Were they actually worried about an empty period in schedules? You can always schedule more games, or spread scheduled games out if that unlikely scenario happened.

I think that has a ton to do with it. The nba did not do as well in numbers with their season being off. I think they really want to keep the tourney in March for that reason

 

[ClifSpliffy]

Scruggs scores 24 to carry Xavier over Butler 68-55

 

[businesslawyer]

You can't possibly be this stupid.

You may be right. But that’s not where the smart money is.

 

[freescooter]

The double header thing was obviously a good...but I did hear that the combination of Connecticut protocols and NY City and NY State protocols made UConn traveling to St Johns a non-starter.

Also, there are many factors besides deaths to measure success of Covid strategies. But first, remember Connecticut was hit very early before treatment options were known, really before anything was known. In the last uptick after the holidays we didn’t have hospitals overwhelmed or even close. As of Friday Indiana had over 1900 Covid hospitalizations. CT had under 1000.

 

[alphasigko]

It's going to be a mess

I think that is an understatement!

 

[Big Cranky]

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.

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.

 

[Rico444]

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.

 

[ucawn]

L m a o.
St. Johns had no reason not to play we are awaiting test results.

 

[CallMeBruce]

True galaxy brain take here

 

[3rdbass]

L m a o.
St. Johns had no reason not to play we are awaiting test results.

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.

 

[navery12]

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.

They've been testing every day, but they want multiple days of negative tests before playing

 

[freescooter]

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.

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.