UCLA's Game Against North Carolina Cancelled Due to COVID-19
The game will not be rescheduled.
When Wednesday’s game against Alabama State was cancelled due to COVID-19 protocols, it seemed pretty unlikely that Saturday’s game against North Carolina would be played.
Then, yesterday, the women’s basketball game against Texas Southern was cancelled as well.
This morning, UCLA has announced that tomorrow’s scheduled game against the North Carolina Tar Heels has also been cancelled due to COVID-19 protocols. Both games of this year’s CBS Sports Classic have now been cancelled since the game between Ohio State and Kentucky was cancelled yesterday.
Additionally, the athletic department announced that team activities have been paused and the status of future games is to be determined.
That would seem to put Wednesday’s final non-conference game against Cal Poly in jeopardy.
It would appear that the next men’s game that will be played would be the December 30th game against Arizona, but that’s just speculation at this point.
It’s not clear yet if Sunday’s women’s game against Ohio State will be played.
Hopefully, everyone involved with both the men’s and women’s programs will get well soon, and hopefully, the Mo Ostin Basketball Center gets sterilized ASAP so both programs can resume playing.
Go Bruins.
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The Bruins seemed to be on a roll, so it really sucks to have their schedule be interrupted. COVID-19 seems to be making the end of 2021 look more like a revisit of 2020 with sports games and other large public events being postponed or cancelled altogether. Testing protocols and quarantines will also make it challenging just to have enough uninfected athletes eligible to play. Not sure how bad it'll get as we enter the new year, but thank goodness the highly infectious Omicron variant apparently isn't as deadly, especially for those who are fully vaccinated. Stay safe during the holidays everyone!
This sounds promising
Sources: Multiple conferences in college basketball are prudently reexamining COVID-19 forfeit policies.
The initial policies were put in place when the pandemic was in a much different place.