I’m not sure if the NCAA BB policy will be “COVID = forfeit” or “COVID = cancellation”.
One policy favors not reporting, and the other favors riskier practices.
I think it will be “cancellation”
What I think will matter is what the ACC policy is - which we can glean from football - Does someone here have it or can point us too it?
I expect teams are under pressure to report (not hide a positive) from the league, along with required testing (3X per week I understand).
If a single (or maybe 2 or 3) players can not play because they have it or are quarantined - then does ACC policy say the game must be played? I would think so based on what we have seen in football (i.e. Clemson played without Trevor Lawrence last two weeks)
I assume that at some number of players not available (or below some number of scholarship players available) - the game would be rescheduled (if possible) or cancelled - but what is that number? We saw some PAC-12 games cancelled because team has less than x scholarship players available this past weekend.
We still have not seen the ACC schedule - with less than three weeks before we are supposed to play GA State .... How will it be structured to allow for make up games?
What Pastners technique does is minimize the chance the entire team is shutdown for two weeks mid-season. Losing that much practice time (and associated conditioning) is the bigger impact to team performance than cancelling/postponing a game. He will be second guessed unless the team wins ...but credit to him for trying to minimze games not played and players 'not positive' being able to play.
