If you didn’t pay attention to college basketball until the NCAA Tournament, the good news is you didn’t miss much. The regular season was a revolving door, the schedule and sometimes even the final score determined by which players and teams were entering the sport’s COVID-19 protocol and which were coming out.
Besides, Day 2 of the tournament was just like that. Oregon beat Virginia Commonwealth 1-0 — technically scored a “no-contest” — and advances to met Iowa because, well, because multiple players on the VCU side tested positive.
Their rotten luck. One-fifth of the 2020-21 season got wiped out due to the pandemic, and the coronavirus reminded everyone it doesn’t make exceptions just because all the players now have new blue patches