COVID in the Northwestern locker room. Probably for the best with the weather coming in anyway.
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They need to forfeit. Period.
I mean, that's never been the rule.
COVID should no longer be an excuse to change when a game is played, lmao.
You don't want a forfeit, that basically does nothing for the NCAA tournament resume. Iowa could use every win they can get at this point to not only avoid the bubble, but also to avoid the 8/9 seed line.
I'd just like to know what their "COVID protocols" are....
Are teams testing and quarantined when you have a runny nose?
Terrible timing, when we are hot. Couldn't have happened when Kris and Connor were OUT
Are teams testing and quarantined when you have a runny nose?
Terrible timing, when we are hot. Couldn't have happened when Kris and Connor were OUT
Covid protocols are no longer in place, this should be chalked up as an Iowa win,... It's always a losing proposition rescheduling these things,... Think Iowa at Dis-assembly Hall..
They don't have the minimum amount of healthy players, between injuries and covid. If you say it needs to be a forfeit, then you're creating a powerful incentive for NW to either 1) play guys with a highly transmissible respiratory illness and pass it to Iowa's players, or 2) play guys who should be recovering from injury. Neither is in the athletes' best interests.
Leistikow mentioned there's an early February date that makes sense for both teams. It'll be fine. This isn't a controversy.
Life is short and brutal. My mom sits and rots away in a home every day now until she dies.
Suck it up NW.
Suck it up NW.
Yeah, 2 days rest for Purdue sounds great.
Current Iowa schedule for February:
2/4 - Illinois
2/9 - @ Purdue
2/12 - @ Minnesota
2/16 - Ohio State
2/19 - @ Northwestern
2/22 - @ Wisconsin
2/25 - Michigan State
2/28 - @ Indiana
Leistikow had best look again,.. There is no make up date in February that makes sense for Iowa...
He thinks rescheduling the game in the 7th is just fine and dandy. 2 days before a stretch of 4/5 on the road. Just brilliant!
That sucks. We had big time momentum going. I hope this doesn't impact us.
There's been a LOT of minutes for starters since Patrick McCaffery took his leave. For all we know, tomorrow's game might have been when it came home to roost in terms of fatigue. Also, might not have!
Anyway, it's the coaching staff's job to figure out how to accommodate these adjustments, and it sounds like they're not panicking about the task. No reason for us to panic on their behalf, either.
I’m afraid Iowa can’t play on short rest. The risk of injury is just way too high to risk. Iowa will simply have to postpone the rescheduled game.
WOW. Glad you aren't my son.
Rules are rules. You either have them or you don't and you don't get to arbitrarily apply them whenever you feel like. The Big 10 has specific rules for games unable to be played due to Covid and they need to follow them. The University of Iowa needs to raise hell over this.
As a sidenote, why in the hell is twitter telling me a link to conference rules is sensitive content?
I'm not sure about a conspiracy theory but an explanation on why the rules the league has set out for this exact situation are not being followed would be nice.
You’d rather we play Northwestern and get our players sick? Brilliant.
Yeah, it should. Why should Iowa players have to be exposed to COVID?
This reminds me of when Assembly Hall was raining metal a few years back.
This is a clear cut forfeit situation according to the latest B1G guidance. How is this even debatable?
(Adopted and effective from 8/20/21 until rescinded by the Administrators Council.)
2021-22 BIG TEN CONFERENCE FORFEITURE POLICY
Interim Guidance for COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2)(Adopted and effective from 8/20/21 until rescinded by the Administrators Council.)
- Competition Involving Two Teams. If a team is unable to participate in a scheduled Conference competition due to COVID-19 and as a result the competition is unable to occur on the calendar day on which it is scheduled, the competition shall be considered a forfeit by the team unable to participate and shall not be rescheduled. In such case, the team unable to participate shall be assessed a “loss,” its opponent a “win,” and Conference standings shall be adjusted accordingly.
Yes, and it forced the team to play an exhausting schedule leading to an eventual 1st round loss to Dayton.
I don't know, but I'll bet it has something to do with Iowa being on a hot streak and the league hoping to cool them off by canceling the game.
I’ll bite.
NW has lost 2 in a row. We’re hot. Collins would do something like this to prevent their season from spiraling. Maybe their best player is just sick.
I assume they’ll be canceling their game at home vs. WI as well, right?
I mean, they just played Sunday. If half the team or whatever tested positive today, no way they can go Saturday.
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How on earth did people play all those games all those years? I know COVID is more recent, but there must not have been flu or colds that affected basketball teams prior to 2020.
The B1G later updated the policy that you cite. It no longer mandates forfeiture.
https://www.si.com/college/purdue/b...icy-for-remaining-2021-22-conference-contests
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