Coronavirus Pandemic Impacts

[Pablo]

https://www.cbssports.com/college-b...ayed-at-connecticuts-mohegan-sun-in-december/:

"The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, which annually puts on multi-team college basketball events, has sent a detailed pitch to numerous NCAA stakeholders and college basketball programs about how it plans to host at least 32 games for at least 16 teams in a bubble from Dec. 9-20, according to confidential documents obtained by CBS Sports.

Mohegan Sun in Uncasville, Connecticut, is where the still-unnamed event would take place. The Basketball Hall of Fame, based in nearby Springfield, Massachusetts, has played its Tip-Off tournament at the resort and casino since 2011.

The Hall of Fame would operate the event with substantial assistance from Mohegan Sun. Frequent COVID-19 testing would be provided by Connecticut-based Hartford Healthcare. In addition to the two events run by the Hall of Fame -- the Tip-Off Tournament and the Hall of Fame Invitational -- sources told CBS Sports the Empire Classic, the Gotham Classic and the Legends Classic are also under consideration to move from their planned New York City-area tournaments up to Uncasville. Here are the 35 schools associated with each of those five events:

• Empire: Baylor, Michigan, NC State, Villanova
  
  
• Gotham: Green Bay, Jacksonville State, Iona, LSU, Mercer, Stony Brook, Syracuse
  
  
• Legends: UConn, Eastern Washington, High Point, Liberty, Monmouth, Notre Dame, USC, Vanderbilt
  
  
• Tip-Off: Albany, Lehigh, LIU, Marquette, Minnesota, Quinnipiac, Rhode Island, UCF
  
  
• Invitational: Army, Florida, Georgia Tech, Penn State, Purdue, Siena, Stanford, West Virginia
  

A total number of teams for this event is yet to be determined, but 16 is the initial target. There is also the possibility of holding two separate bubble events to accommodate more teams, one source said. If that happened, the combined teams via the Empire, Gotham and Legends might link up with more MTE tournaments to accommodate a second major event. With ESPN also heavily exploring moving many of its annual November MTE events to Disney World in Orlando, another source said there remains ongoing discussions about if it it would make more sense for some teams to swap out of an ESPN event in order to play closer to home, in the Northeast, at Mohegan Sun."

 

[Five Two]

NFL with some really good testing results. 64K+ tests from Aug 12-Sept 5 with only 5 positive tests
https://twitter.com/TomPelissero/status/1303399454511374338

The PGA conducted 3.6K+ tests over the past 13 weeks with only 7 players and 4 caddies testing positive.
https://www.espn.com/golf/story/_/id/29830626/how-pga-tour-got-pandemic-finished-season

 

[JPgmuswim]

ACC just proposed every D1 program make the tournament in 2021....Did we just make the NCAA tournament? Is it time to extend DP?

 

[sleeperpick]

ACC just proposed every D1 program make the tournament in 2021....Did we just make the NCAA tournament? Is it time to extend DP?

he DID it he really DID it. DP needs a statue on top of the Johnson Center for all the world to see

 

[Patriotsince81]

he DID it he really DID it. DP needs a statue on top of the Johnson Center for all the world to see

EBA will henceforth be known as the Dave Paulsen Lob Over The Top Arena. Address 39-51 A10 Lane.

 

[Patriotsince81]

ACC just proposed every D1 program make the tournament in 2021....Did we just make the NCAA tournament? Is it time to extend DP?

So you're saying there's a chance? LOL

 

[GSII]

Is this in lieu of having a normal season?

 

[GMUgemini]

Is this in lieu of having a normal season?

Maybe in lieu of conference tournaments? Nationally televised regional play-in tournaments sounds like a good idea to capture extra revenue for the NCAA.

This could be similar to the FA Cup in England or the U.S. Open Cup in America (same model) where any team can enter (including amateur teams). The early rounds are for the lower level teams and the higher level teams enter in later rounds (you could give conference regular season champions double byes into the round of -- uh -- would that be 128? I don't even know at that point).

 

[mkaufman1]

EBA will henceforth be known as the Dave Paulsen Lob Over The Top Arena. Address 39-51 A10 Lane.

I guess this means "hand off at the top of the key and fake to the middle" didn't make the cut, lol

 

[Patriotsince81]

I guess this means "hand off at the top of the key and fake to the middle" didn't make the cut, lol

That is what the court will be named.

 

[tblack33]

ACC just proposed every D1 program make the tournament in 2021....Did we just make the NCAA tournament? Is it time to extend DP?

Fordham confirmed 2021 NCAA champions. They've been saving it all for this one shot.

 

[Patriot8]

One Shining Moment will be 30 minutes long and include 3 commercial breaks.

 

[mkaufman1]

Fordham confirmed 2021 NCAA champions. They've been saving it all for this one shot.

Either Fordham or Maine..because..well Maine, lol

 

[phoenix-arizona]

I love it--the college basketball FA Cup. Do it! The Portland Pilots need a W.

 

[CHRISTOPHER JAMES JOLLAY]

In last year's RPI we're a 40th seed in a region, playing a 25th seed (Siena, Georgia, Texas St., N.Colorado) in the second (non-play-in) round.

However, as Miami would have been a 24th seed, I could have seen the committee hooking us up with a revenge match for ratings reasons.

 

[tblack33]

In last year's RPI we're a 40th seed in a region, playing a 25th seed (Siena, Georgia, Texas St., N.Colorado) in the second (non-play-in) round.

However, as Miami would have been a 24th seed, I could have seen the committee hooking us up with a revenge match for ratings reasons.

Man a selection committee with a good sense of humor could make some epic matchups that would absolutely never happen otherwise.

 

[Pablo]

https://www.espn.com/mens-college-b...-team-ncaa-college-basketball-tournament-work:

"After a good night's sleep, perhaps the current ACC head coaches will come to a similar conclusion. Because their idea to conduct an all-inclusive NCAA tournament in 2021, however well-intentioned (color me skeptical), is going to crash against the rocks.

Don't believe me? Consider:

• There are 346 Division I schools eligible for NCAA tourney play this coming season. That is 324 more teams than the NBA sent to its Orlando bubble. Conservatively estimating each school's travel party at 25, we're going to repeatedly test and quarantine more than 8,000 people? Just so half of them can lose and go home after 40 minutes of basketball? I don't think so.
  
  
• The bracket itself, while amusing, would tax even the best of us. The basic math dictates that 166 teams receive opening round byes. The remaining 180 would play 90 additional games to create a symmetrical field of 256 teams, followed by a tidy eight-round gauntlet through the Final Four.
  
  
• All told, we're increasing the number of games -- with commensurate travel and risk -- from 67 to 345. That's a fivefold increase and, while epidemiology is not my "ology," I do know that infectious disease transmission is not arithmetic. We would be looking at way, way, WAY more than five times the amount of exposure.
  

All of this so that Chicago State, which has averaged four wins per season over the past five years, can be part of a "celebration of the game?" No disrespect to the Cougars, but that makes about as much sense as putting the expansion, winless Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the 1976 NFL playoffs.

The NCAA tournament isn't an exhibition. It isn't charity. It is an earned opportunity to compete for a national championship.

If the ACC coaches were really interested in celebrating the sport, they would play a road game at UNC Greensboro or Furman. In the meantime, I remained unconvinced this isn't a self-serving ploy to avoid nonconference games and/or get every ACC team into the NCAA tourney.

But I'll get started on a bracket just in case ..."

 

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Brett McMurphy
@Brett_McMurphy
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6h

Oklahoma State's athletic department eliminated 10 positions & won’t fill 9 others. 66 employees will be furloughed, another 151 will have salaries reduced up b/w 2.5% & 25%. Every head coach & AD Mike Holder also took voluntary pay cuts. These moves will save OSU $13 million

 

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Jon Rothstein
@JonRothstein
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28m

Have heard a lot of talk over the last 24 hours that non-conference play is going to be imperfect and obsolete. This is why we must all watch closely at the leadership of each conference over the next 2-3 weeks. Pivotal!




Jon Rothstein
@JonRothstein
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35m

The ACC's proposal on Wednesday was well intentioned and in good faith. But competing in the NCAA Tournament --- under any circumstances --- is a privilege, not a right. Onward and upward!




Jon Rothstein
@JonRothstein
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48m

The NCAA is NOT looking to expand the NCAA Tournament as the ACC proposed --- or in any way --- in 2021, per Dan Gavitt.
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Andy Katz
@TheAndyKatz
· 55m
Statement from @NCAA SVP Dan Gavitt on the @accmbb proposal for an all eligible Division I 2021 @marchmadness:

 

[Pablo]

https://nabc.com/documents/2020/9-8-20_Blanket_Waiver.pdf:

NCAA Division I men’s and women’s basketball programs may permit up to two Division I men’s and women’s basketball-specific noncoaching staff members to engage in managerial duties during on-court activities (e.g., rebound, pass, assist with drills) provided the noncoaching staff position existed as of September 7, 2020, and the institution has prohibited some or all student managers from attending practice or other countable athletically related activities due to the health and safety impact of COVID-19. The noncoaching staff member(s) designated to perform such on-court managerial duties must be designated by the institution and kept on file in the athletics department. The basketball-specific noncoaching staff members are only permitted to perform these managerial duties until the conclusion of an institution’s 2020-21 playing season or when the institution permits all student managers to attend practice or other countable athletically related activities, whichever is earlier.

Additionally, in women’s basketball, up to two basketball-specific noncoaching staff members permitted to engage in managerial duties during the 2020-21 playing season may also serve as practice players. For institutions still utilizing student managers, those student managers may also serve as practice players during the 2020-21 playing season. In both instances, the practice player duties may be performed by basketball-specific noncoaching staff members and student managers until the conclusion of the institution’s 2020-21 playing season or when the institution permits practice players to attend practice, whichever is earlier.