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UVA out of the ACC Tourney because of covid. Not great.
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Ransom Stoddard
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Ga Tech advances to the finals without having to play a semifinal game. I haven't looked deeply but this possibly has some significant bubble impact. I'll bet Syracuse is sweating their next round of tests depending on who at UVA tested positive.
NC A&T is also out of the MEAC with a positive test. I have a feeling a few more dominoes may fall.
Ga Tech is in already
Don’t wanna say it but I am terrified of these covid cases knocking prominent teams out of the tournament. Ncaa would have no option but to just move the other team on to the next round if it happens in the big dance.
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They have already stated that is what will happen.
NC A&T actually finished above .500 after we beat them by 62 in the opener.
Eli Brooks a game time decision today for Michigan.
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Teams that participated in the ACC tourney and will qualify for the big dance are ticking time bombs. I don't want those teams anywhere near us either on the court or in the bubble itself.
I think it's a forgone conclusion that Virginia (#16 in the country) ain't going to clear the pre-bubble protocols.
As long as there aren't any ACC 8/9 seeds, Illinois should be okay, because there won't be any ACC teams left after the first weekend.
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They could if everyone but the one person who tested positive has 7 straight days of negative tests. If they followed social distancing etc etc its possible they could get by with only losing that one person who may not even be a player.
Edit: Plus its possible most of the Virginia team has had the virus and is immune anyways
It's possible - I just find it hard to believe.
Going from bad to worse for the ACC...what are they even going to do over there?
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Honestly, I find it harder to believe that we are seeing positive tests at this point in the season. Either some folks are being really really irresponsible in terms of their protocols or just super unlucky.
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Or just bad luck with all the travel and lodging needed to attend these tourneys. Could be as simple as a basketball player touching a contaminated surface from a positive hotel worker and touching his eye. Watch the send off video posted as Illinois gets on the bus. The driver greeting them doesn't have his nose covered with his mask. Something that simple is all it takes
I don't think the conference tourneys should happen (as much as I love them) if the true goal is the NCAA big dance.
At this point it's mostly on either poor protocol adherence or a bad protocol for the conference.
This is probably being played like it was with Ayo. I bet he is out. That didn't look good.
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Regarding Virginia, their situation puts the Selection Committee in a bad spot. The drop-out date for teams to be replaced in the field of 64 is Tuesday, March 16th. And per the NCAA,
"Any potential at-large team that is determined by the institution to be unable to meet the medical protocols and participate in its first game of the championship (March 18, 19 or 20) must notify the Division I Men’s Basketball Committee by 11 p.m. local time Saturday, March 13."
The positive test would've been this morning, so they're already within the 7 day window - I would not want have to deal with the chaos of contact tracing and testing that is going to have to take place to determine whether they should/should not participate. I think the odds are heavily in favor of them dropping out in the next two days.
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Hasn't the ACC had quite a few games get cancelled due to actual positive tests?
To give you an idea, the ACC had a 20 game schedule planned for this season. Here are the final standings:
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Yikes..so clearly the ACC has some issues. Actually hard to believe someone can still catch covid in this conference.
Is it wrong that I really don't care if Illinois loses today because I want them to be as healthy as possible going into the tourney next week?
Yeah the B1G was probably the most successful conference in terms of protocol, with only 3 teams (Nebraska, MSU, Michigan) needing a pause, and 1 of those (Michigan) was because of a variant exposure from outside the team (i.e. nobody on the team ever tested positive, they just all needed to quarantine due to close contract tracing).
My concern, after how quickly things deteriorated last year, that the tournament will be in peril as a whole.
There are very strict protocols in place in Indy, and a complete bubble situation equivalent to what the NBA, NHL and MLS did last summer to hold their postseason tournaments. The system has shown to work and it'll work here. Teams that fail to comply won't be able to participate, and while it'll suck, the show will go on, even if it's just a replay of the BTT from the previous week.
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