Today's Basketball Game vs MSU Postponed
Via Alejandro Zuniga of 247, Michigan’s basketball game versus Michigan State this afternoon is off.
Todays’s Michigan vs. Michigan State basketball game has been postponed due to COVID issues within the Wolverines program.
— Alejandro Zúñiga (@ByAZuniga) January 8, 2022
Apparently they had fewer than seven players available. Michigan was already down Johns, T-Will, Zeb, and Frankie against Rutgers last week. Tuesday’s tilt with Purdue is probably in jeopardy as well. They’re going to work with the Big Ten on rescheduling. Likely spots would be the span between Maryland (1/18) and at Indiana (1/23), or the one between Ohio State (2/12) and at Iowa (2/17). Those are the only five-day breaks on the schedule.
January 8th, 2022 at 7:48 AM ^
Darn.
Keep safe.
January 8th, 2022 at 8:05 AM ^
Did you check to see if the same 5 day breaks are available on MSU's schedule? Both teams play Feb 1 and Feb 5 so Feb 3 is available with both teams having 1 off day between games. Likewise both teams play Feb 8 and 12 so Feb 10th available. And finally MSU plays 2/26 and 3/3 while Michigan plays 2/27 and 3/3 so 3/1 would be available. Those are the best options of avoiding playing back to back days is to play on those 3 dates with one rest day in between games.
Looking at Purdue's schedule I see no such breaks in Michigan and Purdue's schedule. Unless they move other games around one of the teams would have to play back to back days.
January 8th, 2022 at 8:57 AM ^
Thanks for the add.
January 8th, 2022 at 8:39 AM ^
It feels as if the trip to UCF beat Michigan 3 times, in that game, making UM shorthanded in the next one at Rutgers, and now canceling this one.
January 8th, 2022 at 9:17 AM ^
They should have followed my rule: don't go to Florida.
January 8th, 2022 at 9:23 AM ^
Michigan has a positivity rate of around 35%. Florida is 31%. Both are horrible but Michigan is currently experiencing a worse Covid surge than Florida.
January 8th, 2022 at 11:11 AM ^
Oh, I have that as a general rule, not just during the pandemic!
January 8th, 2022 at 11:46 AM ^
I got you weren't talking about the pandemic, but the state itself. There are a few decent places though. St. Augustine is great and Clearwater / Dunedin are awesome too. Ft Lauderdale / Miami are good to visiti, but I wouldn't live there and Daytona is a garbage bin.
January 8th, 2022 at 11:45 AM ^
Not sure your numbers are right. Covid Act Now clearly has FL worse.
January 8th, 2022 at 12:54 PM ^
Call the Detroit Free Press yesterday reported Michigan state wide positivity at 35.2%. The CDC on Thursday (couldn’t find Friday) has Florida at 31%. Doesn’t really make much of a difference because at that point basically in both places, pretty much everybody has Covid. The bottom line is that the entire country currently has Covid so whether you are in Florida, New York, MI or anywhere else, the result is the same.
January 8th, 2022 at 1:27 PM ^
I guess. Some states have over 300 new cases per 100k and others have less than 100 per 100k. Some states have test positivity over 35%, some under 15%. Pretty much the same everywhere.
January 8th, 2022 at 8:48 AM ^
That sucks. They'll reschedule the MSU game at least, but the schedule is pretty packed already so it's going to be tight.
January 8th, 2022 at 9:25 AM ^
Yeah, the back end of this schedule is going to be brutal. I know that these guys are young and in peek condition, but as a b-ball coach, fatigue really can impact a player’s shot.
January 8th, 2022 at 10:18 AM ^
I wonder how Barnes and Tschetter factor into the less than 7 available players. It would suck to have this end up being a forfeit because we didn't want to pull the redshirts.
Unfortunately UM has earned a somewhat sketchy reputation with this stuff after bball last year and hockey this year, so I'm sure the rest of the league will take their shots at UM.
January 8th, 2022 at 12:36 PM ^
The hockey team this year deserves to get dragged for the WMU game but lots of teams missed games last year due to COVID and the idea that UM was ducking PSU, IU, and NW (combined record in conference of 20-37) is crazy.
January 8th, 2022 at 1:13 PM ^
I think the only sketchy thing about basketball last year was that (as far as we were told) the shutdown came from the state and not because of actual cases on the team and they when the state's two week hiatus ended they allowed the women's team to play immediately but said the men needed more time to reacclimate. Hard to know if there was more detail they didn't release, but on the surface it looked like ducking Illinois.
January 8th, 2022 at 10:19 AM ^
Well at least they won’t lose today.
January 8th, 2022 at 1:56 PM ^
Hey someone said the same thing in late November 2020.
January 8th, 2022 at 10:22 AM ^
I checked the tickets section of my Michigan Athletics app and the MSU game I had purchased was now listed as April 1. Did anyone else’s do that? Do they just do that as a placeholder until they set the date for rescheduled games?
January 8th, 2022 at 11:26 AM ^
This basketball season is starting to feel like the 2020 Michigan football season to me, I know it's too early to write off this season but... I'm really hoping next year basketball has a bounce back season like the football team's.
January 8th, 2022 at 11:49 AM ^
I'd trade a sub .500 record this year for a BIG title and Final Four appearance next year.
January 8th, 2022 at 12:34 PM ^
I thought about your comment. At first I thought no way.
I do believe I agree with you. Hopefully 1 game under .500
January 8th, 2022 at 1:10 PM ^
This is a good comment. Perhaps COVID has been affecting the basketball team in more ways than we know. Maybe practices have been cancelled / curtailed and with a young team such as this, that's huge. Could be a realistic reason for their head-scratchingly bad performances.
January 8th, 2022 at 11:40 AM ^
https://covidactnow.org/?s=27851675
Covid Act Now has Michigan at 169.5 new cases per 200k compared to 263.9 for Florida. Also has Michigan at a positive test rate of 30.6% compared to 33.9% for Florida. Seems to suggest Florida is worse.
Supposed to be a response to Michgoblue above
January 8th, 2022 at 11:57 AM ^
Is there an explanation legend for this site? Daily new cases per 100k seems to be a more informative number to go with but doesn't match up with positive test rates. I would think those would be close to same rankings but doesn't really seem to go hand in hand.
January 8th, 2022 at 12:12 PM ^
Positive test rate is generally viewed as a measure of whether you are testing enough while cases per 100k tells more about extent of outbreak. Imagine two places with very similar actual rates. In one people are only testing rarely when they go to the dr or hospital with serious symptoms. They will have low cases per 100,000 and very high positivity (e.g. large percentage of people who test have covid). In the other state, lots of people are testing both because of symptoms and because of contact. They will find have more positive cases but also more negatives. The numbers will show more cases per 100k and lower test positivity. Two very different sets of numbers yet the cases are actually very similar.
January 8th, 2022 at 12:52 PM ^
Wrong response nesting
January 8th, 2022 at 12:54 PM ^
The pertinent confounder is selection bias; who is choosing to get tested? You also have reporting bias, as the state of Florida has been accused of manipulating its data.
January 8th, 2022 at 1:06 PM ^
And Michigan hasn’t?
January 8th, 2022 at 1:13 PM ^
Would you have preferred if I included "credibly?" At least I included a citation.
January 8th, 2022 at 4:36 PM ^
To be fair, there has been massive misreporting from the start. New York State just required hospitals to differentiate between people admitted for covid and people admitted for other reasons that also test positive for covid during standard testing. Prior to that, any positive test regardless of why the patient was admitted was considered a covid case. No one really knows the real numbers of any of this and I think it will take 10 years or more to sort it all out.
Hospitals to change how they report COVID hospitalization data | WHEC.com
January 8th, 2022 at 7:15 PM ^
That's fair, at the ground level where providers report cases, but it seems quite clear Florida was up to some skullduggery at a higher level, of which I can find no evidence of occurring in MI.
January 8th, 2022 at 10:17 PM ^
This wasn't just New York. This is a nationwide reporting issue. New York is only now requiring the distinction. Part of that could be the extra funding that comes from a patient being a covid patient. All of this will take a lot of time to sort through. Add to that the CDC changed the requirements to consider a covid death from the underlying cause to a contributing cause (meaning if someone was on deaths door and then got covid, it was now considered the cause when it wasn't before, this is not done with other illnesses such as influenza which can have the same effect on a dying person) and we have nothing but skewed numbers everywhere. It will take at least a decade to get this all figured out. As of right now, I question everyone's numbers. I don't believe any of them, it seems that everyone is trying to gain something from this.
January 10th, 2022 at 6:20 PM ^
Did you actually read the article you cited?
On Aug. 10, however, the state [Florida] changed its methodology and started counting daily new deaths by the date the person died instead of the day the death was registered. A handful of other states have also reportedly switched to such a process.
The total number of deaths did not change. How is this hiding anything?
January 8th, 2022 at 11:45 AM ^
I’ve been thinking about it, and I’ve decided that I don’t like COVID.
January 8th, 2022 at 1:23 PM ^
I don’t either. I don’t get why this country tries so hard to keep the fire burning.
January 8th, 2022 at 2:07 PM ^
https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/testing/international-comparison
We don't have to try to keep the fire burning in this country when it comes to the third year of this pandemic. It is burning freely by itself when you look at our numbers compared to the rest of the world.
January 8th, 2022 at 2:44 PM ^
If you look at our deaths per capita: we are 20th in the world. Germany has 1361 deaths per capita. We have 2571.
Are there really any countries near us in deaths per capita who you would think of as our peers when it comes to resources to handle medical challenges?
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
January 8th, 2022 at 8:29 PM ^
Several people here talked about positive cases and the United States leads the world in daily confirmed cases with 591,000 people. Other countries who don't even have access to vaccines are no where near us because they have national mask mandates and people actually wear masks and not fight it like the spoiled americans in the United States of America. Other countries look at us and just laugh at how the Supreme Court has to decide if The President can make people wear masks.
January 10th, 2022 at 7:08 PM ^
You're very, very wrong.
January 8th, 2022 at 8:43 PM ^
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1093256/novel-coronavirus-2019ncov-deaths-worldwide-by-country
5.5 million people have died worldwide due to Covid-19. The USA leads the world with 847,000 deaths. Brazil is number 2 with 619,000 deaths. Germany has 113,000 deaths and that is 14th in the world.
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