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Stu Jackson, the Big East’s executive associate commissioner for men’s basketball, appeared on the Ed Cooley radio show Wednesday and said the conference’s wish is for no bubble to be needed. In that scenario the traditional `travel model’ schedule would unfold.

However he noted that the league office will be closely watching how the first two to three weeks of the season unfold. There are currently more than 20 basketball programs that are either in quarantine or just emerging from one after a team member or coach tested positive for COVID-19. Marquette, Connecticut, Seton Hall and Villanova have all had to hit the pause button in their preseason workouts over the last two months.

“It’s not just one schedule, it’s multiple models of a schedule that we’ve worked on so we’re able to pivot to a different path, if needed,” Jackson said.

The Big East has scheduled 3-5 games per team in the month of December but hasn’t released any further schedule just yet. Jackson said the conference will own more information “after the first week of December,” and then explore its options.

He said talk is centering on two options. One is “starting the new year at a specific venue,” and the other is dividing the 11 programs into two venues. That clearly would split the league into six East Coast teams and five in the Midwest.

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Jay Wright confirms that Dhamir Cosby-Roundtree will not play for the early part of the season. Another setback w/ shin as previously reported.

Senior walkon Kevin Hoehn also tore his Achilles.

Per @erapay5
 
Getting impossible re scheduling

Rothstein

DePaul is pausing all basketball activities due to a positive COVID-19 test, per release. Blue Demons' first three games are cancelled.
 
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[quote="Paultzman" post=402298]Getting impossible re scheduling

Rothstein

DePaul is pausing all basketball activities due to a positive COVID-19 test, per release. Blue Demons' first three games are cancelled.[/quote]

Must be all those 4 star recruits
 
Anyone know / have the analytics surrounding the cost of having a bubble? With a very small % of students dorming on campus during this time period, one would think two schools could host round-robin type action for 2-3 week spurts. Have players in the dorms, knock out 4-5 games in a two week span - keep the sites the same, rotate teams.

have Stu and Val give me a call- we'll figure this one out lol
 
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Rothstein

DePaul is pausing all basketball activities due to a positive COVID-19 test, per release. Blue Demons' first three games are cancelled.[/quote]

I don't know what their schedule is, but I would just play the same nearest D-1 school three times. And play three straight days if you have to. That honestly seems easier than rescheduling three different opponents. Everyone's schedule will be an ugly mess anyway, so no one will bat an eye if DePaul plays UIC(?) on three consecutive days.
 
[quote="L J S A" post=402303][quote="Paultzman" post=402298]Getting impossible re scheduling

Rothstein

DePaul is pausing all basketball activities due to a positive COVID-19 test, per release. Blue Demons' first three games are cancelled.[/quote]

I don't know what their schedule is, but I would just play the same nearest D-1 school three times. And play three straight days if you have to. That honestly seems easier than rescheduling three different opponents. Everyone's schedule will be an ugly mess anyway, so no one will bat an eye if DePaul plays UIC(?) on three consecutive days.[/quote]

Creighton too now.
 
Creighton basketball is shutting down due to positive COVID-19 test results.
 
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Both the men’s and women’s staff at. SJU has done a great job to date at keeping all players and staff Covid free. Right now it is their primary focus. Not an easy task to keep a group of 15 young men and women in line during these treacherous times. Hat off to both CMA and Joey T for the great job they have done.
 
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[quote="redmannorth" post=402314]Both the men’s and women’s staff at. SJU has done a great job to date at keeping all players and staff Covid free. Right now it is their primary focus. Not an easy task to keep a group of 15 young men and women in line during these treacherous times. Hat off to both CMA and Joey T for the great job they have done.[/quote]

A lot of these kids are attending on and off-campus gatherings and parties. I've seen videos and photos of such gatherings per the local news from the University of South Carolina students.
 
I've been trying to stay optimistic but it's multiple teams each day now and pausing each program for 14 days at the rate they're getting shut down doesn't seem conducive to actually completing the season...
 
If we stay covid free, we may make the tourney by default with forfeitures...
 
Sadly, I think the leagues will come to the realization soon. There will be some bubble tournaments and maybe a late NCAA Tournament (May or June). The kids will get an extra year and 2021-2022 will be back to normal.
 
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[quote="JohnnyFan" post=402321]Sadly, I think the leagues will come to the realization soon. There will be some bubble tournaments and maybe a late NCAA Tournament (May or June). The kids will get an extra year and 2021-2022 will be back to normal.[/quote]

With the loss of the NCAA tournament last year (and the huge amount of $$$ associated with it), the powers that be are going to be desperate to not let it happen two years in a row.

I suspect that they will make every attempt to come up a creative plan to save the tournament in some manner this season.
 
[quote="MarkRedman" post=402325][quote="JohnnyFan" post=402321]Sadly, I think the leagues will come to the realization soon. There will be some bubble tournaments and maybe a late NCAA Tournament (May or June). The kids will get an extra year and 2021-2022 will be back to normal.[/quote]

With the loss of the NCAA tournament last year (and the huge amount of $$$ associated with it), the powers that be are going to be desperate to not let it happen two years in a row.

I suspect that they will make every attempt to come up a creative plan to save the tournament in some manner this season.[/quote]

Make all 300+ teams participate in tournament. A wacky year deserves a wacky ending.
 
[quote="L J S A" post=402331][quote="MarkRedman" post=402325][quote="JohnnyFan" post=402321]Sadly, I think the leagues will come to the realization soon. There will be some bubble tournaments and maybe a late NCAA Tournament (May or June). The kids will get an extra year and 2021-2022 will be back to normal.[/quote]

With the loss of the NCAA tournament last year (and the huge amount of $$$ associated with it), the powers that be are going to be desperate to not let it happen two years in a row.

I suspect that they will make every attempt to come up a creative plan to save the tournament in some manner this season.[/quote]

Make all 300+ teams participate in tournament. A wacky year deserves a wacky ending.[/quote]

I'd have 2 tournament.
The ncaa tourney in which you put in 60 teams.
Also a play-in tournament, which you have 32 teams, whoever makes the f4 gets the last 4 spots.
Go back to 64 teams, I mean you'd have 92 teams altogether.

The other option is a mega tournament with 64 teams on each side of the bracket, 128 teams altogether, with no play-in game.
 
[quote="EliteBaller K" post=402332][quote="L J S A" post=402331][quote="MarkRedman" post=402325][quote="JohnnyFan" post=402321]Sadly, I think the leagues will come to the realization soon. There will be some bubble tournaments and maybe a late NCAA Tournament (May or June). The kids will get an extra year and 2021-2022 will be back to normal.[/quote]

With the loss of the NCAA tournament last year (and the huge amount of $$$ associated with it), the powers that be are going to be desperate to not let it happen two years in a row.

I suspect that they will make every attempt to come up a creative plan to save the tournament in some manner this season.[/quote]

Make all 300+ teams participate in tournament. A wacky year deserves a wacky ending.[/quote]

I'd have 2 tournament.
The ncaa tourney in which you put in 60 teams.
Also a play-in tournament, which you have 32 teams, whoever makes the f4 gets the last 4 spots.
Go back to 64 teams, I mean you'd have 92 teams altogether.

The other option is a mega tournament with 64 teams on each side of the bracket, 128 teams altogether, with no play-in game.[/quote]

How do you pick the 60 teams if there are no, or very few, games played in the regular season?

Maybe by March there are enough vaccinations available to have one huge national tournament?
 
One huge tournament sounds good, unless the vaccine(s) turn everyone in zombies.
 
[quote="OhioFan" post=402341]One huge tournament sounds good, unless the vaccine(s) turn everyone in zombies.[/quote]

I can handle the slow moving zombies. But if we become those fast moving zombies, then we're in trouble!
 
[quote="SJUFAN2" post=402340][quote="EliteBaller K" post=402332][quote="L J S A" post=402331][quote="MarkRedman" post=402325][quote="JohnnyFan" post=402321]Sadly, I think the leagues will come to the realization soon. There will be some bubble tournaments and maybe a late NCAA Tournament (May or June). The kids will get an extra year and 2021-2022 will be back to normal.[/quote]

With the loss of the NCAA tournament last year (and the huge amount of $$$ associated with it), the powers that be are going to be desperate to not let it happen two years in a row.

I suspect that they will make every attempt to come up a creative plan to save the tournament in some manner this season.[/quote]

Make all 300+ teams participate in tournament. A wacky year deserves a wacky ending.[/quote]

I'd have 2 tournament.
The ncaa tourney in which you put in 60 teams.
Also a play-in tournament, which you have 32 teams, whoever makes the f4 gets the last 4 spots.
Go back to 64 teams, I mean you'd have 92 teams altogether.

The other option is a mega tournament with 64 teams on each side of the bracket, 128 teams altogether, with no play-in game.[/quote]

How do you pick the 60 teams if there are no, or very few, games played in the regular season?

Maybe by March there are enough vaccinations available to have one huge national tournament?[/quote]

You mentioned vaccines not me, but I'll answer you.

Pfizer and the other has 95% of working, Pfizer says theirs are safe, so why can't people start taking it?

People just need to get out of the way and allow people who want it to take it
 
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