OK, I know this isn't Hawkeye basketball. But with a number of the Big Ten conference tournaments taking place at various venues in the next few days, this should make you sit up and pay attention. Apparently, while UNI had been keeping to proper Missouri Valley COVID regulations and restrictions, the St. Louis City Board of Health had their own policies that were more restrictive - and ordered that those take precedence.
As a result, they ruled that, due to contact tracing, UNI did not have enough players to field a team and ordered the game cancelled. Unlike other such cancellations, this has the effect of a forfeit, as now Drake moves automatically into the semi-finals on Saturday afternoon.
Too bad - that would have been a good game to see. And in Arch Madness, anything can - and usually does happen.
But I do hope the Big Ten gets jurisdictional items cleared up before the tournaments begin, ESPECIALLY in a place like State College this weekend. Apparently both the conference and the team were caught off-guard by this. That cannot happen with the Big Ten tournaments.
As a result, they ruled that, due to contact tracing, UNI did not have enough players to field a team and ordered the game cancelled. Unlike other such cancellations, this has the effect of a forfeit, as now Drake moves automatically into the semi-finals on Saturday afternoon.
Too bad - that would have been a good game to see. And in Arch Madness, anything can - and usually does happen.
But I do hope the Big Ten gets jurisdictional items cleared up before the tournaments begin, ESPECIALLY in a place like State College this weekend. Apparently both the conference and the team were caught off-guard by this. That cannot happen with the Big Ten tournaments.