Oregon vs. VCU cancelled
Say the team that wins it all advances a round or more because of a no contest. Is there an * on the championship?
Not if it occurs in round 1.
Replying so this is at the top. Tweet thread that summarizes the timeline of events regarding VCU's positive COVID tests.
1. VCU had its first positive test on Wednesday.
2. Two more positive tests on Friday night.
3. Additional positive test(s) this morning.
Source to @CBSSports: VCU had its first positive surface on Wednesday, then two more positives surfaced Friday night, which prompted Marion County health officials and the NCAA to decide allowing VCU to move forward and play its game vs. Oregon was too risky.
— Matt Norlander (@MattNorlander) March 20, 2021
Granted VCU had no shot but this is ridiculous. So dumb.
Why is this ridiculous and “so dumb”?
Don't feed the trolls
Stop. We ALL know why.
March 20th, 2021 at 11:37 PM ^
I mean, there's only the risk of an outbreak of a potentially fatal virus with possible lingering, debilitating symptoms at the NCAA tournament among unpaid athletes, but sure.
Remind me, where did you get your doctorate?
So what the high seed auto advances? What is this 12u softball? what happened to the fill in teams?
From my understanding everyone got into the bubble no issue so those teams were told they weren’t needed. Now this pops up this late.
Eliminating the team with confirmed infection(s) makes more sense to me.
Or not.
The cutoff was Tuesday for the fill in teams. Everything after that is a no-contest. Team with Covid is out, other team advances
No, the team that’s COVID free auto advances. How else could you do it? If VCU has COVID today, they’ll still have it on Monday.
Imagine the coach of a high seed misunderstanding it like this, and purposely infecting his team so that he thinks they'll advance automatically
"No upsets for THIS team, mwahahah"
To the Final Four!
https://twitter.com/marchmadness/status/1373406782773735424
I mean I think this tweet makes it clear that someone within VCU's team tested positive.
As for the replacement teams, they were only able to fill-in for a team that was known to be withdrawing from the tournament before 6 P.M. on Tuesday, March 16th. Once the tournament began, no teams were to be replaced.
Maybe next time actually read the press release and understand the COVID procedures before posting. Or don't.
Maybe next time I’ll not assume it was some kind of staff positive at the arena or something?
sorry for asking
N/m, my comment was unnecessary.
Maybe so and I’ll own the mega. But You’re being an intentional douchebag and I’d knock you’re ass out if you said that to me in person
Edit. I’ll take this back since you took yours back
Gentlemen there is no need for fisticuffs. Maybe have a dance-off?
Breakdance fighting
Look at you, the heavy weight champ of mgoboard...can I have your autograph?
emphaisis on heavy
i think that mean VCU tested positive
Not good. Hope it is contained to just VCU.
Can you imagine if one of the final 3 games get cancelled? Ugh.
For the Final Four I’d bet they postpone. You can’t cancel those games.
Postpone for two weeks? Not sure if that is a viable option.
I don’t know how the logistics would work exactly but it’s probably to easier to postpone this year than any other, with few fans at the games.
In the event that the Final Four are cancelled, would the NCAA award a championship? If so, how?
I agree that postponing the games would create logistical challenges, especially since we'd be getting close to final exams and other important dates. If they can't be rescheduled, then this year might have to go down as yet another year with no championship awarded.
There’s no way they wouldn’t crown a champion this year, even if the title game has to happen weeks later.
Yes, they would crown MSU champs because obviously they’re most deserving and were cheated all year long to keep them from winning
Dylan @umhoops had an interesting observation on this. Roger Ayers was one of the officials who tested positive before the NCAA Tournament began. Still most likely no connection between them, but if you add Virginia to this group, it does seem like the mid-Atlantic teams got hit by an outbreak. Conference Tournaments should have been scheduled a week before the NCAA Tournament or not played at all. Brutal break for VCU.
Roger Ayers officiated Duke, Georgia Tech and VCU games in the final week of conference tournaments. https://t.co/aRLiItvKa2
— Dylan Burkhardt (@umhoops) March 20, 2021
That makes him Referee Zero. (But they’re all zeros in my book.)
You can’t spell Covud without VCU.
Be interesting to see if he was working with no mask. This can't be purely coincidence.
March 20th, 2021 at 11:43 PM ^
That makes sense. Probably why I haven't seen Duke in this tournament either.
There are people contract tracing this already to St Bonneventure, who played VCU on 3/14, and obviously the Bonnies played LSU today. At this point it’s a major stretch, but there’s a chance this has a Michigan tie in.
Maybe it's the BPONE talking but I was thinking the same thing. If St. Bonaventure has no positive cases yet that's a good sign, but man would it suck if it went from them to LSU to us.
March 20th, 2021 at 11:24 PM ^
Even if a Bonnies player has it and transmitted it to an LSU player today, it is unlikely that the LSU player would be contagious in only two days. That said, if a Bonnie is contagious now, he would probably have tested positive, and would be even more likely to test positive in the next couple of days. Hopefully the NCAA continues to test teams after they are eliminated just to be safe.
March 20th, 2021 at 11:25 PM ^
Luckily, if the Bonnies had the virus when they were playing LSU and passed it along to LSU, there highly likely wouldn't be enough time for the virus to become contagious by the time they play Michigan, since it takes usually 3, sometimes 2 days, to become contagious after someone gets it.
What a break for Oregon, assuming Iowa wins, they'll have to play in 2 days while Oregon is relaxing.
Yes, and we’re taking about the same university that got into the Pac12 CG in football due to COVID as well. The pandemic has been kind to them.
That being said, I’m not sure having 10+ days off between games is a benefit in this case. Rust and nerves are a real thing in the big dance.
Now I'm wondering if Phil Knight may have created covid...
... and Nikes are made in China, you know. It's all coming into focus.
But it also means UO just has to sit around and can’t play. Iowa is getting its feet wet now.
Agreed. Hard to tell if this helps or hurts against Iowa. The only advantage I see for Oregon is not having to risk playing, losing the game, and not getting to the Second Round. Iowa (assuming they don't choke like OSU) should cruise against this #15 seed so this may be more like a scrimmage for them. And Oregon won't have any extra prep time for Iowa with this news breaking hours before tip-off.
The only way this hurts Iowa IMO is if they get a key injury or acquire COVID-19.
Yeah you can argue it either way so I don't think it's a big deal. Just unsavory.