Around College Basketball 2019/20 Season

[quote="Paultzman" post=378744]Duke lost to Wake Forest 113-101 in double overtime.

I’m happy :)[/quote]

The end is near for coach k. Will they hire an ex dukie to replace him?

Id see if i could get mcdermott from creighton if i was them.
 
Not shabby
Per Jerry Carino;

Steve Pikiell’s contract extension numbers:
--Adds two more years, through 2026
--Would top out at $4.05M (includes $300K retention bonus)
--Pikiell’s buyout resets to $5M this year, dropping $1M per year after that
 
[quote="gman" post=380198]Cam Mack suspended. Hit and run car accident. According to the Nebraska board he has been disciplined four times and the fans are happy to see him move on after the season. I don't think him and MA would have worked.

https://sports.yahoo.com/police-cite-nebraska-guard-minor-traffic-accident-191721036--ncaab.html[/quote]

Dachon Burke also suspended. Remember he was a Matty A transfer candidate here before he ultimately landed at Nebraska where Matt now coaches.

https://twitter.com/RobinWashut/status/1236327114259009536?s=19
 
Utah St. hands San Diego St. only their second loss of the season in the conference T title game. Always like Utah St. for some reason, like BYU play great team ball. May open door for Dayton to get a one seed if they win their conference T at Barclays next week.
 
[quote="bamafan" post=380463]Utah St. hands San Diego St. only their second loss of the season in the conference T title game. Always like Utah St. for some reason, like BYU play great team ball. May open door for Dayton to get a one seed if they win their conference T at Barclays next week.[/quote]

Think that most likely means another NIT spot. Good chance Utah state was gonna be on the outside looking in of the NCAA.
 
Nebraska takes a 32 point loss to below .500 Minnesota to finish season with 7 wins.
 
Can You Play Games With No Fans? Sports Brace for the Coronavirus Impact




By Ben Cohen and Louise Radnofsky / WALL STREET JOURNAL

March 8, 2020

The impact of coronavirus on the U.S sports world switched from theory to reality late Sunday when organizers of a high-profile international tennis tournament in Indian Wells, Calif., said they would not hold this year’s event because of a declared public health emergency in Riverside County, Calif.

The sudden cancellation of the BNP Paribas Open, which was scheduled to begin on Monday, was the start of a week that could bring severe disruptions to the sports calendar as the U.S. considers more aggressive measures to mitigate the effects of the virus.

“It’s not in the public interest of fans, players and neighboring areas for this tournament to proceed,” said Dr. David Agus, professor of medicine and biomedical engineering at the University of Southern California, in a release.

The news comes as sports bodies and athletes are struggling to figure out how to proceed as coronavirus fears escalate. For example, the NCAA tournament begins in less than two weeks, raising the question: What happens to March Madness if the biggest games between college basketball’s best teams are played in empty arenas? We might be about to find out.

“I think a worst-case scenario is that it’s played behind closed doors,” said Brian Hainline, the NCAA’s chief medical officer.

But as more American sports leagues prepare for the possibility of games without fans, which has become reality across Europe and Asia over the past month, there is one basketball player who says that sort of disruption would be unimaginable.

“Nah, it’s impossible,” said Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James. “If I show up to an arena and there ain’t no fans in there, I ain’t playing.”

The conflicting perspectives were the latest sign of the jitters that have swept professional sports with an unpredictable coronavirus traveling around the world, spreading through American cities and forcing governments to consider measures that haven’t been implemented in a century.

But as big cities shift from containment to mitigation, conferences have been canceled and concerts have been called off. The virus could be coming for sports next.

None of the major American leagues have taken drastic actions like postponing games or playing in empty arenas. But the unrealistic became reality in other continents last month. It might be happening in the U.S. by next week.

It already happened in the Division III men’s NCAA tournament. Johns Hopkins, the host of three games this weekend, banned spectators on its own initiative in part because the team that advanced to the Sweet 16 was Yeshiva University, which had classes canceled after a student tested positive for the virus.

More schools and arenas may follow. The men’s NCAA tournament is played at neutral sites across the country over three consecutive weekends, and CBS and Turner Sports paid $8.8 billion for the rights to broadcast the games through 2032. Hainline, the NCAA medical official, said that proceeding with the tournament with no fans was “very unlikely” and that canceling was off the table.

Most leagues are still recommending small behavioral adjustments they hope can make a big difference—the sports equivalent of washing your hands and not touching your face.

The NBA warned players to offer fist-bumps to fans and sign autographs with their own pens. The NHL is considering prohibiting media from conducting interviews in locker rooms. Tennis players have to manage their own towel while ball kids are wearing gloves.

But the games are going on. There was a Major League Soccer match on Saturday night in Seattle, the site of the biggest American outbreak so far, although the Seattle Sounders cautioned fans who were sick or had pre-existing health conditions that put them at greater risk to stay home. Washington officials have warned residents to consider avoiding large gatherings but have stopped short of formally banning them.



At the Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, where more than 3,000 sports nerds gathered to discuss the future, the chatter in the hallways between panels was more about what might happen over the next few weeks. The conversations at this annual expo are usually wonky discussions of statistics. This year they were about the virus. Handshakes were out. Vulcan salutes were in.


The conference had permission to continue as scheduled hours after the Massachusetts Institute of Technology banned gatherings of more than 150 people. MIT’s decision came as other universities canceled in-person classes and Stanford cut public attendance at sports games to about one-third of each venue’s capacity through April 15 or until further notice. The Cardinal could host games in women’s basketball’s NCAA tournament that begins March 20, and school officials said attendance at those games would also be limited.

Public health experts say these measures are not simply meant to reduce transmission and protect fans at the events themselves. The whole point is to flatten the epidemic curve. If the spike of Covid-19 cases gets smoothed, there is much less strain on hospitals and health-care providers.

But it’s not easy to change decades of societal norms almost overnight.

Before the Duke vs. North Carolina basketball game on Saturday night, when thousands of Duke students piled into tight courtside bleachers and sweated on each other, coaches Mike Krzyzewski and Roy Williams eschewed their customary handshake in favor of theatrical elbow-bumps. Then they hugged.

The leagues, governing bodies and local governments have looked at the same information and come to different conclusions about the safest course of action.

The question has produced a new answer in European soccer nearly every day. And nowhere is the confusion greater than in Italy, where authorities placed nearly a quarter of the country’s population on lockdown Sunday.

After three weeks of scattered postponements and matches being played to empty stands, Italy’s top soccer league went behind closed doors this weekend by government decree, even as some officials insisted that playing the matches at all was a mistake. Italy’s sports minister said in a Facebook post that it didn’t make sense to play soccer with huge parts of the nation hunkered down. Parma and SPAL briefly canceled their match Sunday—and then realized he was only making a suggestion. They kicked off in an empty stadium 75 minutes behind schedule.

That sort of indecision has spread faster than the virus itself.



The International Ice Hockey Federation said Saturday it was canceling the women’s world championships in Canada at the end of the month. The International Skating Union has announced no changes to its figure skating world championship in Canada next week.

Health officials from Santa Clara County in California recommended that residents avoid mass gatherings where “large numbers of people are within arm’s length of one another.” The San Jose Sharks have since played two home games.


The NBA found itself in a similar position several days later. With two known cases that indicated the virus is spreading in the community, San Francisco became one of the first American cities to call for aggressive measures of social distancing, issuing guidance on Friday night that included recommendations to cancel or postpone large gatherings like sports games.

The next night, in their glittering arena in the heart of San Francisco, the Golden State Warriors played in front of 18,000 fans. As they walked through the doors of Chase Center, there were signs that read: “Attending tonight’s game could increase your risk of contracting coronavirus.”

There was one local resident who wasn’t in the building: Warriors superstar Stephen Curry. He woke up Saturday morning feeling sick and missed Saturday night’s game with an illness—but only after the team issued a remarkable press release to clarify exactly what his illness was.

“Stephen Curry was diagnosed with influenza A by a positive viral testing,” said Robert Nied, the Warriors’ team physician. “He has no specific risk factors for Covid-19. He has the seasonal flu.”
 
[quote="jerseyshorejohnny" post=380659]Can You Play Games With No Fans? Sports Brace for the Coronavirus Impact




By Ben Cohen and Louise Radnofsky / WALL STREET JOURNAL

March 8, 2020

The impact of coronavirus on the U.S sports world switched from theory to reality late Sunday when organizers of a high-profile international tennis tournament in Indian Wells, Calif., said they would not hold this year’s event because of a declared public health emergency in Riverside County, Calif.

The sudden cancellation of the BNP Paribas Open, which was scheduled to begin on Monday, was the start of a week that could bring severe disruptions to the sports calendar as the U.S. considers more aggressive measures to mitigate the effects of the virus.

“It’s not in the public interest of fans, players and neighboring areas for this tournament to proceed,” said Dr. David Agus, professor of medicine and biomedical engineering at the University of Southern California, in a release.

The news comes as sports bodies and athletes are struggling to figure out how to proceed as coronavirus fears escalate. For example, the NCAA tournament begins in less than two weeks, raising the question: What happens to March Madness if the biggest games between college basketball’s best teams are played in empty arenas? We might be about to find out.

“I think a worst-case scenario is that it’s played behind closed doors,” said Brian Hainline, the NCAA’s chief medical officer.

But as more American sports leagues prepare for the possibility of games without fans, which has become reality across Europe and Asia over the past month, there is one basketball player who says that sort of disruption would be unimaginable.

“Nah, it’s impossible,” said Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James. “If I show up to an arena and there ain’t no fans in there, I ain’t playing.”

The conflicting perspectives were the latest sign of the jitters that have swept professional sports with an unpredictable coronavirus traveling around the world, spreading through American cities and forcing governments to consider measures that haven’t been implemented in a century.

But as big cities shift from containment to mitigation, conferences have been canceled and concerts have been called off. The virus could be coming for sports next.

None of the major American leagues have taken drastic actions like postponing games or playing in empty arenas. But the unrealistic became reality in other continents last month. It might be happening in the U.S. by next week.

It already happened in the Division III men’s NCAA tournament. Johns Hopkins, the host of three games this weekend, banned spectators on its own initiative in part because the team that advanced to the Sweet 16 was Yeshiva University, which had classes canceled after a student tested positive for the virus.

More schools and arenas may follow. The men’s NCAA tournament is played at neutral sites across the country over three consecutive weekends, and CBS and Turner Sports paid $8.8 billion for the rights to broadcast the games through 2032. Hainline, the NCAA medical official, said that proceeding with the tournament with no fans was “very unlikely” and that canceling was off the table.

Most leagues are still recommending small behavioral adjustments they hope can make a big difference—the sports equivalent of washing your hands and not touching your face.

The NBA warned players to offer fist-bumps to fans and sign autographs with their own pens. The NHL is considering prohibiting media from conducting interviews in locker rooms. Tennis players have to manage their own towel while ball kids are wearing gloves.

But the games are going on. There was a Major League Soccer match on Saturday night in Seattle, the site of the biggest American outbreak so far, although the Seattle Sounders cautioned fans who were sick or had pre-existing health conditions that put them at greater risk to stay home. Washington officials have warned residents to consider avoiding large gatherings but have stopped short of formally banning them.



At the Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, where more than 3,000 sports nerds gathered to discuss the future, the chatter in the hallways between panels was more about what might happen over the next few weeks. The conversations at this annual expo are usually wonky discussions of statistics. This year they were about the virus. Handshakes were out. Vulcan salutes were in.


The conference had permission to continue as scheduled hours after the Massachusetts Institute of Technology banned gatherings of more than 150 people. MIT’s decision came as other universities canceled in-person classes and Stanford cut public attendance at sports games to about one-third of each venue’s capacity through April 15 or until further notice. The Cardinal could host games in women’s basketball’s NCAA tournament that begins March 20, and school officials said attendance at those games would also be limited.

Public health experts say these measures are not simply meant to reduce transmission and protect fans at the events themselves. The whole point is to flatten the epidemic curve. If the spike of Covid-19 cases gets smoothed, there is much less strain on hospitals and health-care providers.

But it’s not easy to change decades of societal norms almost overnight.

Before the Duke vs. North Carolina basketball game on Saturday night, when thousands of Duke students piled into tight courtside bleachers and sweated on each other, coaches Mike Krzyzewski and Roy Williams eschewed their customary handshake in favor of theatrical elbow-bumps. Then they hugged.

The leagues, governing bodies and local governments have looked at the same information and come to different conclusions about the safest course of action.

The question has produced a new answer in European soccer nearly every day. And nowhere is the confusion greater than in Italy, where authorities placed nearly a quarter of the country’s population on lockdown Sunday.

After three weeks of scattered postponements and matches being played to empty stands, Italy’s top soccer league went behind closed doors this weekend by government decree, even as some officials insisted that playing the matches at all was a mistake. Italy’s sports minister said in a Facebook post that it didn’t make sense to play soccer with huge parts of the nation hunkered down. Parma and SPAL briefly canceled their match Sunday—and then realized he was only making a suggestion. They kicked off in an empty stadium 75 minutes behind schedule.

That sort of indecision has spread faster than the virus itself.



The International Ice Hockey Federation said Saturday it was canceling the women’s world championships in Canada at the end of the month. The International Skating Union has announced no changes to its figure skating world championship in Canada next week.

Health officials from Santa Clara County in California recommended that residents avoid mass gatherings where “large numbers of people are within arm’s length of one another.” The San Jose Sharks have since played two home games.


The NBA found itself in a similar position several days later. With two known cases that indicated the virus is spreading in the community, San Francisco became one of the first American cities to call for aggressive measures of social distancing, issuing guidance on Friday night that included recommendations to cancel or postpone large gatherings like sports games.

The next night, in their glittering arena in the heart of San Francisco, the Golden State Warriors played in front of 18,000 fans. As they walked through the doors of Chase Center, there were signs that read: “Attending tonight’s game could increase your risk of contracting coronavirus.”

There was one local resident who wasn’t in the building: Warriors superstar Stephen Curry. He woke up Saturday morning feeling sick and missed Saturday night’s game with an illness—but only after the team issued a remarkable press release to clarify exactly what his illness was.

“Stephen Curry was diagnosed with influenza A by a positive viral testing,” said Robert Nied, the Warriors’ team physician. “He has no specific risk factors for Covid-19. He has the seasonal flu.”[/quote]

The Athletic has a good article about the Sienna’s Conference having them to play some games with no fans in the stand due to one of their playerS coming down with the Measles after an outbreak on their campus. The player played in a game against Hartford before he knew he was infected and infected one of their players. Games were postponed and when played, no fans were allowed.
 
[quote="SJU85" post=380661][quote="jerseyshorejohnny" post=380659]Can You Play Games With No Fans? Sports Brace for the Coronavirus Impact




By Ben Cohen and Louise Radnofsky / WALL STREET JOURNAL

March 8, 2020

The impact of coronavirus on the U.S sports world switched from theory to reality late Sunday when organizers of a high-profile international tennis tournament in Indian Wells, Calif., said they would not hold this year’s event because of a declared public health emergency in Riverside County, Calif.

The sudden cancellation of the BNP Paribas Open, which was scheduled to begin on Monday, was the start of a week that could bring severe disruptions to the sports calendar as the U.S. considers more aggressive measures to mitigate the effects of the virus.

“It’s not in the public interest of fans, players and neighboring areas for this tournament to proceed,” said Dr. David Agus, professor of medicine and biomedical engineering at the University of Southern California, in a release.

The news comes as sports bodies and athletes are struggling to figure out how to proceed as coronavirus fears escalate. For example, the NCAA tournament begins in less than two weeks, raising the question: What happens to March Madness if the biggest games between college basketball’s best teams are played in empty arenas? We might be about to find out.

“I think a worst-case scenario is that it’s played behind closed doors,” said Brian Hainline, the NCAA’s chief medical officer.

But as more American sports leagues prepare for the possibility of games without fans, which has become reality across Europe and Asia over the past month, there is one basketball player who says that sort of disruption would be unimaginable.

“Nah, it’s impossible,” said Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James. “If I show up to an arena and there ain’t no fans in there, I ain’t playing.”

The conflicting perspectives were the latest sign of the jitters that have swept professional sports with an unpredictable coronavirus traveling around the world, spreading through American cities and forcing governments to consider measures that haven’t been implemented in a century.

But as big cities shift from containment to mitigation, conferences have been canceled and concerts have been called off. The virus could be coming for sports next.

None of the major American leagues have taken drastic actions like postponing games or playing in empty arenas. But the unrealistic became reality in other continents last month. It might be happening in the U.S. by next week.

It already happened in the Division III men’s NCAA tournament. Johns Hopkins, the host of three games this weekend, banned spectators on its own initiative in part because the team that advanced to the Sweet 16 was Yeshiva University, which had classes canceled after a student tested positive for the virus.

More schools and arenas may follow. The men’s NCAA tournament is played at neutral sites across the country over three consecutive weekends, and CBS and Turner Sports paid $8.8 billion for the rights to broadcast the games through 2032. Hainline, the NCAA medical official, said that proceeding with the tournament with no fans was “very unlikely” and that canceling was off the table.

Most leagues are still recommending small behavioral adjustments they hope can make a big difference—the sports equivalent of washing your hands and not touching your face.

The NBA warned players to offer fist-bumps to fans and sign autographs with their own pens. The NHL is considering prohibiting media from conducting interviews in locker rooms. Tennis players have to manage their own towel while ball kids are wearing gloves.

But the games are going on. There was a Major League Soccer match on Saturday night in Seattle, the site of the biggest American outbreak so far, although the Seattle Sounders cautioned fans who were sick or had pre-existing health conditions that put them at greater risk to stay home. Washington officials have warned residents to consider avoiding large gatherings but have stopped short of formally banning them.



At the Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, where more than 3,000 sports nerds gathered to discuss the future, the chatter in the hallways between panels was more about what might happen over the next few weeks. The conversations at this annual expo are usually wonky discussions of statistics. This year they were about the virus. Handshakes were out. Vulcan salutes were in.


The conference had permission to continue as scheduled hours after the Massachusetts Institute of Technology banned gatherings of more than 150 people. MIT’s decision came as other universities canceled in-person classes and Stanford cut public attendance at sports games to about one-third of each venue’s capacity through April 15 or until further notice. The Cardinal could host games in women’s basketball’s NCAA tournament that begins March 20, and school officials said attendance at those games would also be limited.

Public health experts say these measures are not simply meant to reduce transmission and protect fans at the events themselves. The whole point is to flatten the epidemic curve. If the spike of Covid-19 cases gets smoothed, there is much less strain on hospitals and health-care providers.

But it’s not easy to change decades of societal norms almost overnight.

Before the Duke vs. North Carolina basketball game on Saturday night, when thousands of Duke students piled into tight courtside bleachers and sweated on each other, coaches Mike Krzyzewski and Roy Williams eschewed their customary handshake in favor of theatrical elbow-bumps. Then they hugged.

The leagues, governing bodies and local governments have looked at the same information and come to different conclusions about the safest course of action.

The question has produced a new answer in European soccer nearly every day. And nowhere is the confusion greater than in Italy, where authorities placed nearly a quarter of the country’s population on lockdown Sunday.

After three weeks of scattered postponements and matches being played to empty stands, Italy’s top soccer league went behind closed doors this weekend by government decree, even as some officials insisted that playing the matches at all was a mistake. Italy’s sports minister said in a Facebook post that it didn’t make sense to play soccer with huge parts of the nation hunkered down. Parma and SPAL briefly canceled their match Sunday—and then realized he was only making a suggestion. They kicked off in an empty stadium 75 minutes behind schedule.

That sort of indecision has spread faster than the virus itself.



The International Ice Hockey Federation said Saturday it was canceling the women’s world championships in Canada at the end of the month. The International Skating Union has announced no changes to its figure skating world championship in Canada next week.

Health officials from Santa Clara County in California recommended that residents avoid mass gatherings where “large numbers of people are within arm’s length of one another.” The San Jose Sharks have since played two home games.


The NBA found itself in a similar position several days later. With two known cases that indicated the virus is spreading in the community, San Francisco became one of the first American cities to call for aggressive measures of social distancing, issuing guidance on Friday night that included recommendations to cancel or postpone large gatherings like sports games.

The next night, in their glittering arena in the heart of San Francisco, the Golden State Warriors played in front of 18,000 fans. As they walked through the doors of Chase Center, there were signs that read: “Attending tonight’s game could increase your risk of contracting coronavirus.”

There was one local resident who wasn’t in the building: Warriors superstar Stephen Curry. He woke up Saturday morning feeling sick and missed Saturday night’s game with an illness—but only after the team issued a remarkable press release to clarify exactly what his illness was.

“Stephen Curry was diagnosed with influenza A by a positive viral testing,” said Robert Nied, the Warriors’ team physician. “He has no specific risk factors for Covid-19. He has the seasonal flu.”[/quote]

The Athletic has a good article about the Sienna’s Conference having them to play some games with no fans in the stand due to one of their playerS coming down with the Measles after an outbreak on their campus. The player played in a game against Hartford before he knew he was infected and infected one of their players. Games were postponed and when played, no fans were allowed.[/quote]

The Orioles played a game at an empty Camden Yards a few years back, due to the Baltimore riots.
 
Just spoke with one of my former players, Dequan Jones, who played at the University of Miami. He is playing in Italy this year and he told me they will make a decision today on whether or not to cancel the rest of the season. While he is not in the 25% of the country that has been quarantined, some teams are and the travel restrictions may be unmanageable.
 
[quote="Amaseinyourface" post=380502][quote="bamafan" post=380463]Utah St. hands San Diego St. only their second loss of the season in the conference T title game. Always like Utah St. for some reason, like BYU play great team ball. May open door for Dayton to get a one seed if they win their conference T at Barclays next week.[/quote]

Think that most likely means another NIT spot. Good chance Utah state was gonna be on the outside looking in of the NCAA.[/quote]

Well, not really because that means USU knocked a team out of the dance that will likely take their spot in the NIT.
 
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