“Patience is everything right now. You can\u2019t really have anything other than patience. I\u2019m trying to be realistic, too. I told our staff this morning, \u2018Once the rest of the country cancels football, we\u2019ll know there\u2019s no fall sports at all.\u2019<\/p>
“So there won\u2019t be any [basketball] games in November. And then we can start thinking about January, maybe, or February. Who knows?”<\/p>Geno Auriemma on the 2020-2021 college basketball season<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\nBoth the men's and women's NCAA Tournaments were canceled back in March and things certainly don't look good for the start of the upcoming season, not with COVID-19 numbers continuing to rise in many parts of the country. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
So what about a bubble?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Is an NBA-type bubble an option for college basketball?<\/h2>\n\n\n\nGeno Auriemma | Michael Hickey\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nGeno Auriemma was asked his thoughts on whether or not the upcoming college basketball season, or at least conference play, could be played in a bubble. The NBA has had great success in Orlando with the bubble experiment, as has the WNBA in Bradenton, but Auriemma really doesn't see it happening for college basketball. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Are you going to take the 11 Big East teams and put them in a bubble? Could you do that? That's a lot of people in the bubble that you don't realize would have to be in there. Does that make sense: team doctors, trainers, managers ... people living in a hotel room for three months.<\/p>
“Can it be done? Probably. But I don't see it happening. I've actually heard people talking about it, and you could do it financially. But I don't know that there's going to be this giant groundswell of, ‘Hey, yeah, let's do that.' I don't see that.”<\/p>Geno Auriemma on college basketball being played in a bubble<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\nSure, a bubble for college basketball sounds great in theory but it's just not realistic, not if these universities really want to send the message that these kids are students first and athletes second. But that's a conversation for another day. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
College football seems to be doomed for the moment and college basketball might be right behind. It's just the world we live in right now, folks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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