With C-USA “hosting” this year’s NIT, does that mean two games being played simultaneously on dual courts separated by a curtain?
I hope so. The rest of the country should share our misery.
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Gov. Greg Abbott says it is now time to open Texas 100%, end statewide mask mandate ## State mandates and restrictions will end next Wednesday, the governor announced in Lubbock.
ugh - shaking my head - if we could just wait a LITTLE longer for some vaccinations to get out…
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It does seem like being first is newsworthy, and that is the driver here. Maybe he thinks no matter what happens it will take the attention off of people’s power bills. Good luck down there @austinniner .
Not college but first full crowd event I’ve seen in sports.
This is really cool. Thanks to the Panthers.
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See that Davidson G Kellan Grady has entered the portal as a grad transfer and after further reading, realized that I had misinterpreted the extra year of eligibility for winter sports participants. I thought a player had to stay at his/her current school to take advantage of that, but not the case.
Anyway, found a good synopsis from the San Diego Union-Tribune - with first paragraph illustrating that initially even NCAA staff were confused about eligibility:
An NCAA spokesperson told the Union-Tribune on Wednesday night that “the additional eligibility is only at the current school” but clarified that Thursday morning.
“The eligibility is available at another school,” the spokesperson said in a subsequent email, “but the scholarship will count against team limits. If a student-athlete stays at their current school but has exhausted eligibility, their aid doesn’t count against team limits.”
In other words, if you have 13 basketball players on scholarship and three seniors stay for their extra year, you still get three additional scholarships for 2021-22. If a senior transfers to another school for that extra season, he or she counts against the allotted scholarship limit (which is 13 for men’s basketball).
Stanford beats Arizona 54-53 for the WBB championship. Not bad for a team forced away from its home base by COVID-19 protocols for much of the season:
It’s been quite a journey for VanDerveer and the Cardinal this season. The team was forced on the road for nearly 10 weeks because of the coronavirus, spending 86 days in hotels during this nomadic season. It prepared the Cardinal for the past three weeks in the NCAA tournament bubble in San Antonio.
Interesting how things have worked out for a Baylor vs Gonzaga match-up:
When the season began, this game actually was on the schedule — not for April 5, which merely was a fantasy, but for Dec. 5, when the two were in Indianapolis for a game that would have been contested at Bankers Life Fieldhouse, just a short walk from where the two will meet in the season’s final game. A couple of positive COVID tests inside the Gonzaga program led to the game being canceled less than two hours before it was to commence.
