Games of Interest (12.28.21) Update on Covid Protocol and Conference Play

[loca2874]

We are back to basketball, I guess. There are 5 games today and two of them are postponed due to COVID or Health and Safety protocols. We are also starting conference play so changes to schedules are coming.

The American has made changes to the COVID 19 Operational Protocols. This is from the Houston website.

“The protocols were unanimously approved Monday by the conference's athletic directors and are subject to modification pending changes to national, state, local or NCAA guidelines.

The conference has established a minimum of seven eligible scholarship players and at least one coach to be available for a conference game to proceed as scheduled. Any team with fewer than seven available scholarship players due to COVID-19 maintains the option to play a game if desired.

If a team does not have enough players to play a conference game as scheduled, the game shall be canceled and declared a no-contest for purposes of conference standings. The involved institutions have the discretion to reschedule a game that was canceled, but there is no mandatory rescheduling policy.

If a team decides to not play a particular contest for reasons unrelated to COVID-19, the game shall be declared a no-contest for NCAA purposes, and a forfeit win and forfeit loss for purposes of conference standings.

The American may declare a no-contest in a conference game if federal, state, local or university health authorities prevent the teams from playing on the scheduled date if both teams are able to participate. All rescheduling options will be exhausted before declaring a no-contest.

Teams will be required to play a minimum of 75% of the average number of conference games played in order to be seeded by winning percentage for the conference championship. All teams falling below the 75% threshold will be seeded according to their winning percentage within that subgroup.”


AND 1

There was a change to the Southern Illinois game. They were supposed to take on Missouri Baptist. That game shows Cancelled but according to Southern Illinois it is supposed to be rescheduled. They are now playing Grambling today who thought they ended their OOC with TCU on December 21.

GO TU!!!!!

AAC Games

Team	Ranking		Team	Ranking	Time	TV
Cincinnati	57	at	Houston	4	Postponed

Rest of GOI

Team	Ranking		Team	Ranking	Time	TV
Northwestern St.	336	at	Baylor	1	7:00 p.m.	ESPN+/BIG12
Grambling	330	at	Southern Ill.	146	7:00 p.m.	ESPN3
Fresno St.	50	at	Boise St.	68	8:00 p.m.	Stadium
Colorado St.	26	at	New Mexico	170	Postponed

Rankings

Rank	Trend	Team	Record		Rank	Trend	Team	Record
4	Even	Houston	11-2		68	Even	Boise St.	8-4
52	Up 1	UCF	8-2		75	Down 1	Utah	8-4
57	Up 1	Cincinnati	9-3		93	Even	Rhode Island	8-3
60	Even	Memphis	6-4		146	Even	Southern Ill.	6-5
65	Even	Wichita St.	9-3		162	Up 1	LMU (CA)	6-5
80	Even	SMU	9-3		174	Up 1	Oral Roberts	4-6
155	Up 1	Temple	7-5		245	Even	Oregon St.	2-10
182	Down 1	East Carolina	9-3		265	Up 1	Air Force	7-4
202	Even	Tulsa	6-5		287	Even	Alcorn	1-11
215	Up 1	Tulane	3-6		332	Even	Little Rock	2-7
246	Up 1	South Fla.	5-7		336	Up 1	Northwestern St.	0-10

Quad Tracker

Q1	Quadrant 1: Home 1-30, Neutral 1-50, Away 1-75
	Quadrant 2: Home 31-75, Neutral 51-100, Away 76-135
Win	Quadrant 3: Home 76-160, Neutral 101-200, Away 136-240
none	Quadrant 4: Home 161-353, Neutral 201-353, Away 241-353
Loss
Boise St.
Q2
Win
Rhode Island
Loss
Utah
Q3
Win
Southern Illinois
Loss
Oral Roberts
Q4
Wins
Northwestern St.
Oregon St.
Little Rock
Alcorn State
Loss
Air Force
LMU (CA)

 

[I.I.]

The No-contest rule allows some tampering (such as Cincy football) where you can avoid certain teams by yelling "COVID" and play teams you can beat. (Unless those teams call COVID on you ! ) Not sure the no-contest deal was a good thing for the conference.

 

[TU 1978]

I liked it better when teams forfeited due to Covid. The teams that managed their business better are penalized by this and the Cincinnatis and Houstons rewarded.

 

[TUcandoit]

Anything to keep their circle jerk intact. Cincy, Houston, and UCF need to be able to keep giving each other nice little tugs on every single thread on the AAC board.

 

[drboobay]

What is different here?

 

[chito_and_leon]

Not playing has almost gotten us out of the 200s. We should continue not playing for as long as possible.

 

[chito_and_leon]

The No-contest rule allows some tampering (such as Cincy football) where you can avoid certain teams by yelling "COVID" and play teams you can beat. (Unless those teams call COVID on you ! ) Not sure the no-contest deal was a good thing for the conference.

They should have to certify that they are below the thresholds and get fined if they call a game where they actually had enough players/coaches. It shouldn't be an option to call a game unless they are below the thresholds. Especially BB where playing with a shorter bench isn't dangerous for the players unlike FB.

 

[drboobay]

They should have to certify that they are below the thresholds and get fined if they call a game where they actually had enough players/coaches. It shouldn't be an option to call a game unless they are below the thresholds. Especially BB where playing with a shorter bench isn't dangerous for the players unlike FB.

This is about protecting NCAA tourney revenue, obviously.

 

[chito_and_leon]

This is about protecting NCAA tourney revenue, obviously.

A lot of unknowns about the covids now obviously, probably the only thing I'm comfortable saying with absolute certainty is that covid will be used by the committee to benefit marginal big conference teams and penalize good smaller conference teams. Bad losses for the 8-11 teams in the big conferences will get excused because of covid and good smaller conference teams will get penalized for not having big wins over teams that backed out.

 

[loca2874]

Baylor beat northwestern state 104-68

southen Illinois is up on grambling 71-59 with 2 min left in the game

Boise State up 10 on Fresno state at half