Kenpom now has M B-ball game Feb 3 @ NW back up on team sheet
You need to be a subscriber to see, but when games are cancelled they are removed from a team sheet and W/L prediction total. He only puts them back up once they are rescheduled - and whatta ya know our game vs. Northwestern is back on the sheet. Does he know something we don't or is this a glitch?
January 31st, 2021 at 5:45 PM ^
So Milton has been let go?
Just a second there professor. We fixed the glitch.
January 31st, 2021 at 5:46 PM ^
My Yahoo sports app shows it also. Wednesday at 9 pm
January 31st, 2021 at 5:54 PM ^
Still ppd on the Michigan athletics page.
Honestly, I would rather make certain that we get as many of the ppd games rescheduled rather than worrying about which team we get first out of the state-imposed (an unnecessary - unless someone involved in the team actually tests positive) shutdown.
January 31st, 2021 at 6:44 PM ^
It is not a state-imposed shutdown.
U of M has complete authority to play games this week, if they so choose. It is entirely up to Schlissel, Manuel & co.
January 31st, 2021 at 7:12 PM ^
Officially not ordered/mandated, but for the university leaders to go against the state health department recommendation would be career suicide.
The health dept cast the die for them - which I wouldn't find objectionable if it was more supported by the data (as the shutdowns were in March/April).
January 31st, 2021 at 8:06 PM ^
No, they didnt "cast" anything.
The health department recommends against indoor dining -- yet tomorrow, thousands of restaurants in MI are going to open their dining rooms under certain guidelines (e.g., 25% capacity); others will not. That's because they are all weighing the pros/cons and taking ownership of the decision. None are comitting career suicide.
UM absolutely could, and should, have publicly released key health data (e.g., "We have tested both the hockey and the basketball team for 10 straight days with no positives; additionally, our investigation has shown zero contact with any infected individuals"; etc) presented by one of the dozens of highly-paid, highly-skilled, world-renowned doctors they have on campus and announced their decision to move forward this week, after consulting with opponents like Northwestern. The MDHHS could also be notified to confirm no laws are being broken and see if they have any specific, data-based objections to UM's analysis and process.
Instead, UM has been stuck in "woe is me" mode (see Warde's podcast w Jansen) and refused to act like a world-class institution with the resources to make tough, smart decisions.
January 31st, 2021 at 8:11 PM ^
Or maybe the school, with its world-class medical experts, made a reasoned and responsible judgment when it comes to making unpaid students play a contact game during a deadly pandemic.
It’s just a game. In a pandemic.
Don’t be a selfish douche.
January 31st, 2021 at 8:26 PM ^
The health department did "cast the die" in this instance when they issued a very specific recommendation to the UM athletic dept regarding the covid variant.
February 1st, 2021 at 9:44 AM ^
One or more UM athletes flew in from UK with the new variant. A couple weeks later there were 22 positives in the athletic department. I suspect that there was transmission beyond the original teams. This was probably more than the minimum caution required by what we have absolute certainty about, but doing the minimum hasn't been real effective.
WSJ had a story yesterday about how the NFL really tightened its COVID protocols after a couple of teams had big outbreaks. Worth a read. In a season where almost everyone will postpone some games for COVID, taking a break to make sure you don't have a big outbreak brewing isn't a horrible idea. Hopefully they incorporate what the NFL learned.
February 1st, 2021 at 1:45 PM ^
Isn't the Athletic Dept shut down a response to Ann Arbor/Washtenaw County specific health recommendations? I thought Ann Arbor had an outbreak of the UK variant, which is why State and other universities' athletics didn't shut down?
January 31st, 2021 at 5:46 PM ^
"... we just fixed the glitch."
January 31st, 2021 at 6:05 PM ^
But, but, I could burn this place to the ground
January 31st, 2021 at 6:42 PM ^
I believe you have my stapler.
January 31st, 2021 at 7:48 PM ^
Is it red??
January 31st, 2021 at 7:05 PM ^
But they told me that I could listen to the radio at a reasonable volume while I’m collating.
January 31st, 2021 at 7:28 PM ^
No salt
January 31st, 2021 at 7:30 PM ^
I think we are jumping to conclusions
January 31st, 2021 at 5:46 PM ^
Getting a game in before before playing Illinois would really be nice.
January 31st, 2021 at 5:48 PM ^
I'm grasping at this straw as tightly as possible. And I'm not letting go until absolutely forced to.
January 31st, 2021 at 5:49 PM ^
ESPN still shows it as postponed. Also on the 6th when Michigan was supposed to play MSU, MSU is now playing Nebraska in East Landfill.
January 31st, 2021 at 9:33 PM ^
Oh lawd, can you imagine how happy they must be to be playing nebrasketball instead of what they otherwise would’ve had in store for them?
January 31st, 2021 at 5:53 PM ^
There’s no way. That’s in three days and we haven’t even returned to practice.
January 31st, 2021 at 6:03 PM ^
This is very reminiscent of the ‘full on, double rainbow’
What does it mean?
January 31st, 2021 at 6:20 PM ^
Great news if true. Wonder if any non-team sponsored practice activity is taking place amongst the players during this down-time?
January 31st, 2021 at 6:35 PM ^
Northwestern sports does not show it as postponed on their site. So maybe on feb 3?
January 31st, 2021 at 6:52 PM ^
If we were playing on Wednesday, we would be hearing about it from a source other than Kenpom.
January 31st, 2021 at 7:35 PM ^
Highly doubt Kenpom has any insider info on this. Probably just a mistake.
January 31st, 2021 at 9:02 PM ^
I doubt kenpom has any insider info, but I will say that the lights in the PDC (which are usually always on) have been off since the shutdown. But when I drove past today, they were back on for the first time since the shutdown
January 31st, 2021 at 9:14 PM ^
You bastard....
I don't even know what the PDC is but I'm going to go ahead and believe it has something to do with the basketball team and they have been practicing in secret.
To piggy-back on rob f's comment above, there are now 2 straws to grab onto and that's all I need!
January 31st, 2021 at 9:27 PM ^
Player development center I believe.
February 1st, 2021 at 12:42 AM ^
Yes, I should've clarified that
February 1st, 2021 at 8:28 AM ^
The old abbreviation monster strikes again.
February 1st, 2021 at 9:58 AM ^
You mean the OAM.
January 31st, 2021 at 11:40 PM ^
If the team has
A) Isolated for 7 days
B) All passed a recent COVID test
Then by CDC guidelines, they are good to go. And that is assuming they were exposed, which no one actually knows.
Any additional delay, while it may reduce risk by a very marginal amount, is not likely to make a big difference in safety. I understand the heath department recommendation, and I understand caution, but it seems to fly in the face of the CDC recommendations.
It seems like the UM AD could use CDC recommendations to give themselves cover here. I don't want our team put at any additional risk than is necessary, but I honestly believe most of the experts would tell you that a full week of isolation plus a negative test is not being risky.
February 1st, 2021 at 12:02 PM ^
If they are playing they must be essential. Vaccinated them now.
February 1st, 2021 at 3:33 PM ^
As previously suggested, looks like the database where KenPom pulls in his schedules goofed and mistakenly re-added the Northwestern game. It is now once again off of Michigan's KP page (and shows as postponed again on the Yahoo Sports app):
