From the LA Daily News: The basketball teams at UCLA won’t be returning to the court any time soon. The men’s basketball team had its Wednesday nonconference game against Cal Poly canceled Saturday due to the COVID-19 protocols within the Bruins’ program. It’s the third consecutive game canceled for the fourth-ranked Bruins after games with Alabama State on Wednesday at Pauley Pavilion and North Carolina on Saturday in Las Vegas were recently called off. The game with Cal Poly will not be rescheduled. “UCLA’s team-related activities have been paused, and the status of future games is to be determined,” a UCLA release said.
The women’s basketball team, which had to cancel Thursday’s game against Texas Southern due to COVID-19 protocols within the Bruins’ program, announced that home games against Ohio State on Sunday and Cal State Bakersfield on Tuesday won’t be played either. The next game on the men’s team’s schedule naturally becomes a question, which is a Pac-12 game against No. 8 Arizona on Dec. 30 at Pauley Pavilion. The women’s team has a Pac-12 game with USC scheduled for Dec. 28 at Pauley Pavilion.
COVID-19 related issues have shut down college basketball programs all over the country. Ohio State, which was supposed to take on Kentucky in the CBS Sports Classic, canceled because of positive COVID-19 results within the 15th-ranked Buckeyes’ program. Seton Hall canceled its games against Iona and St. John’s. It’s part of a growing wave of COVID-19-related sports cancellations and postponements as the pandemic surges again this winter...
Full story at https://www.dailynews.com/2021/12/18/ucla-mens-and-womens-basketball-teams-stalled-by-covid-19-protocols/.
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