The emergence of the omicron variant has prompted an outbreak of COVID-19 issues across American sports. In recent days college basketball has taken on dozens of COVID pauses at programs throughout the country.
The latest significant news came Saturday morning when, less than 80 minutes before tip time, Memphis announced its game in Nashville vs. No. 18 Tennessee was off due to COVID protocols in Memphis' program. The news followed the high-profile cancellations of Kentucky vs. Ohio State and North Carolina vs. UCLA in Saturday's CBS Sports Classic. (Kentucky will now play North Carolina at 5:30 p.m. ET on CBS.) Between cancellations and postponements, nearly 50 games have been impacted in the first six weeks this season.
Impact of canceled games
The cancellations have impacts for intra-conference games, as leagues have instituted forfeit rules for the 2021-22 season. Seton Hall was incapable of playing St. John's this forthcoming Tuesday, so the Big East stuck to its code agreed to in the fall and docked the Pirates with a loss in league play, while St. John's started 1-0 in the conference due to the SHU forfeit. The same thing happened earlier this month in the Pac-12 when Washington was incapable of finding a makeup game vs. UCLA, so the Huskies were assessed a forfeit and UCLA was given a win in the conference standings.
Forfeits are not recognized officially by the NCAA selection committee, so any games not played as initially scheduled will not be reflected on team sheets.
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Teams affected by COVID-19
Here is the latest list of schools affected by COVID-19 protocols, which will be updated as necessary, should more schools need to be added.
- Akron (currently paused)
- Abilene Christian
- Binghamton (currently paused)
- Cleveland State (currently paused)
- Colorado State (currently paused)
- Cornell (currently paused)
- DePaul (currently paused)
- Drexel (currently paused)
- Evansville (currently paused)
- Florida State (currently paused)
- Hampton (currently paused)
- Georgia State
- Loyola Chicago (currently paused)
- Loyola Maryland (currently paused)
- Memphis (currently paused)
- Nevada
- Northeastern (currently paused)
- Ohio State (currently paused)
- Oregon State
- Penn State (currently paused)
- Rice (currently paused)
- Rutgers (currently paused)
- Seton Hall (currently paused)
- St. Francis Brooklyn (currently paused)
- Syracuse (currently paused)
- Texas Southern (currently paused)
- Tulane (currently paused)
- UCLA (currently paused)
- Wagner
- Washington
December 19, 2021 at 02:31AM
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