Eleven games involving top 25 teams today. Only 4 of them are being played. I don't like the way things are trending.
Season on the brink?
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How many were supposed to involve teams whose seasons are in the toilet record-wise?
I don't understand why they can't just delay the postseason three weeks to allow a cushion for makeup games? Football made this same mistake, wth are they doing?
"Season on the Brink" a must read for any hoops fan.
Love the story in there about Knight not sure about his 5th starter. It was between Alford and another player. So he kicked them both out of practice and told them not to come back until they were told. So the next day Alford showed at practice and the other player did not. Neither player had been told to return. So Knight started Alford. Absolutely classic.
Don't draw any motivation Hoosiers. This is 2021 and this is a Hawkeye season
Love the story in there about Knight not sure about his 5th starter. It was between Alford and another player. So he kicked them both out of practice and told them not to come back until they were told. So the next day Alford showed at practice and the other player did not. Neither player had been told to return. So Knight started Alford. Absolutely classic.
Don't draw any motivation Hoosiers. This is 2021 and this is a Hawkeye season
Overall trends for COVID cases are still on the decline, so in general teams aren't at any more risk tomorrow than they were 4 weeks ago.
Cases in Iowa are 25% of what they were on Nov 15th around the start of the season.
Lots of ways to look at the data here, and you can compare by state if you go to the state comparison tab and pick the 6 you want to see:
https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#compare-trends_newcases
Cases in Iowa are 25% of what they were on Nov 15th around the start of the season.
Lots of ways to look at the data here, and you can compare by state if you go to the state comparison tab and pick the 6 you want to see:
https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#compare-trends_newcases
Potentially could come to that, but the logistics of putting all the teams in a quasi-bubble for the NCAA tournament would dictate that you need certainty of dates. Lots of venues and hotel spaces to secure. Plus TV networks want that window in March to early April for the broadcasts. Before baseball season has begun and before the weather turns much better. They will make every effort to adhere to those dates for that reason.
I'm not sure just delaying everything by 3 weeks will allow all the games to get in. You are going to continue to have teams run into COVID positive tests. It is just going to happen. Could be wrong on that.
This season will be played and there will be a champion crowned.
Too much $$ involved and the dreaded Covid isn't as bad as we've all been lead to believe.
Your thoughts on my opinion of the dreaded Covid are irrelevant because what truly matters is the $$$ the NCAA needs, and don't kid yourself. Lol.
Too much $$ involved and the dreaded Covid isn't as bad as we've all been lead to believe.
Your thoughts on my opinion of the dreaded Covid are irrelevant because what truly matters is the $$$ the NCAA needs, and don't kid yourself. Lol.
yeah the news has been good in the Upper Midwest states since the peaks around November. The avalanche of cases that was predicted for Christmas/new Year never materialized. Almost as if a virus is going to make its way through a population on its own timeline, no matter how much control we think we might be able to exert over it.
I have no doubt the tournament will be delayed but they’ll figure out a way to get it in. Two years without a billion dollar event would be the end of the NCAA.
Speaking of Season on the Brink, I can't remember the player(may have been Alford) but if I remember right there was one player guarding Knight who was dribbling. And the kid stole the ball from Knight, who grabbed it back from the player and threw it at their face and cussed them. The kid thought Knight would think less of them if they stopped trying on defense so they stole it again which further pissed him off. Was a brutal look at Knight and the team, but it made you appreciate his toughness and the toughness of the kids who made it through their playing days with him.
Nationwide, the pandemic is not trending down, as some have suggested. It won't get significantly better until late spring, at the earliest, and it could get worse. I am optimistic that vaccinations will ramp up with more guidance from the federal government, and the likelihood of a couple more vaccines being approved. It would be a damn shame for this season to end early, but leagues and the NCAA will need to readjust as more games are postponed.
The seven day average of new cases in the US today is right at 50,000 lower than the seven day average on Jan 12. Not a long term trend, but clearly tending downward.
Don’t think it will get canceled. I still think we finish the regular season at a set date and end it there. If we’ve played 16 games we play 16 games. Team with the best % wins the league. We could get COVID. Anything is possible. Skip the Big Ten tournament, let the teams have a -7-10 day rest and get to the bubble in Indy as a 1 or 2 seed. To me that’s best case scenario.
It's been doing that. Up/down for weeks now but overall the numbers have creeped up, not down. HoustonREDHawk is right.
And hospitalized has peaked, too. We aren't out of the woods so to speak, but the decline is real.
"dreaded covid isn't as bad as we've been led to believe"
what have you been led to believe regarding Covid?
Everything I've heard is if you are young and don't have one of the known preconditions linked to poor outcome, you are likely okay. So young basketball athletes are not at much risk. On the other hand, covid has killed 400,000 Americans so obviously it is a Big deal because many people are not young and many people do have preconditions. My 83 year old father got while at the hospital for a different issue and was dead a week later. So when you say Covid is not as bad as we (or you) have been led to believe, I think you might not have been paying attention to the seriousness of what is going on.
Get vaccinated, socially distance, wear a mask and wash your hands. Don't let this virus advance further. Defeat it.
Pay attention to this-
I have paid plenty of attention and don't care what you think.
Here comes Bobby with his COVID knowledge. This thread will soon be taken down. The deniers are here. I’m gone from this one. Good luck arguing with the jugheads.
If you look at the big picture, the past month is BY FAR the worst we have seen all categories, cases, hospitalized and dead. I'm not sure how over 120,00 hospitalized and over 3,000 dead EVERY DAY is good news. Hospitalizations and deaths lag spreading events (Christmas/New Years), and some more easily spread variants are now here. Anyone who thinks there are good times ahead in the near future needs learn who to get their news from. There are better times ahead, but they are at least a couple of months away. I am glad that we will finally be getting truth and direction from the top.
Keep wearing masks, stay apart, and washing your hands. Even if you don't feel threatened, you probably have relatives and friends who will get very sick and maybe die. I want the Hawks to have the opportunity to finish this season and show what they can do at least as much as the rest of you, but stopping the virus is an even higher priority.
Seriously? The bolded line is 7 day avg. Been going up all fall and winter and now it's going down in all categories except the first graph (tests). Cases, hospitalized, and deaths have all peaked in the US
What part of post #19 didn’t you understand? Cases have been going up than down them up again. Your graphs show that with a current cycle going down. That’s not to say in a week it won’t be going up again. If we see sustained declines for consecutive months, you can start saying it’s going down, but not yet.
All I want to add is to please do your part to slow the spread. Take the simple precautions seriously, and if you can just stay home. 3 weeks ago I had to sit and watch my mom thru the ICU glass succumb to this horrible disease. Went from one day thinking she was going to be discharged and had beaten it, to 4 days latter no longer with us. Talking to the medical professionals and just still how they can't explain some of what this disease is doing. Can't say enough how difficult a job the nurses in ICU have, they are guardian angels.
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Agree with you...It might be going down from 300,000 daily to 299,000 and from 3,000 deaths daily to 2,900. Big FD....
How can you defeat a virus? Eventually you and I will get it. Face it people it’s a virus and life goes on.
According to the CDC website THIS MORNING:
24,135,690 total cases. Total population of the nation is 328.2 million. That means a total of 7.35% of the population of the county has had this "highly contagious and deadly virus" (and I am one of them). Let's say that of that number of total cases, that another 10% had it and didn't even know it (asymptomatic) just to be safe and say it's an even higher number because it certainly is, so your total cases would be 26,549,259 cases nationwide. That means that 8.09% of the total population has had/has it in the year-plus it's been around.
The CDC says there have been 400,306 deaths this morning. That's 1.66% just out of the reported cases have died. That means that 1.66% of the only 7.35% that have gotten it have died. In other words, 0.12% of the population have died from this virus. I am NOT minimizing those who have died from/with it, nor the pain their families are enduring--I've been touched by that as well, and my condolences to the poster above who lost his dad. But this is NOT what we were told it was for a significant number of months. No, it's absolutely NOT nothing, and it is certainly serious for some among us. Protect those for whom it IS a danger, be smart and hygienic, be considerate of those who do need to be more cautious, but lets get back to people being able to provide for their families, to being able to deal with their other health conditions, normalcy for the development of our kids, and some semblance of everyday life to stop the various abuses that are going on in the lives of those being held down by the limitations that are in place.
24,135,690 total cases. Total population of the nation is 328.2 million. That means a total of 7.35% of the population of the county has had this "highly contagious and deadly virus" (and I am one of them). Let's say that of that number of total cases, that another 10% had it and didn't even know it (asymptomatic) just to be safe and say it's an even higher number because it certainly is, so your total cases would be 26,549,259 cases nationwide. That means that 8.09% of the total population has had/has it in the year-plus it's been around.
The CDC says there have been 400,306 deaths this morning. That's 1.66% just out of the reported cases have died. That means that 1.66% of the only 7.35% that have gotten it have died. In other words, 0.12% of the population have died from this virus. I am NOT minimizing those who have died from/with it, nor the pain their families are enduring--I've been touched by that as well, and my condolences to the poster above who lost his dad. But this is NOT what we were told it was for a significant number of months. No, it's absolutely NOT nothing, and it is certainly serious for some among us. Protect those for whom it IS a danger, be smart and hygienic, be considerate of those who do need to be more cautious, but lets get back to people being able to provide for their families, to being able to deal with their other health conditions, normalcy for the development of our kids, and some semblance of everyday life to stop the various abuses that are going on in the lives of those being held down by the limitations that are in place.
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Don't waste your time with logic or facts, the Lemmings still believe everything their precious government tells them.
