The SEC’s opening for South Carolina and Kentucky, originally scheduled for December 29 at the Rupp Arena in Lexington, Kentucky, has been postponed. The schools announced the decision on Wednesday as a result of a combination of positive COVID-19 tests, contact tracking and subsequent quarantine of individuals within the Gamecocks program. A date has not yet been set for making the game.
It is the fifth game that South Carolina has been forced to postpone or cancel due to problems with the COVID-19 that have only emerged three games in the season. He last played on December 5, dropping 77-67 to Houston to drop to 1-2 in the season.
In another part of the news schedule: As the big fight scheduled for last Saturday night between Villanova and Virginia could not be played, a very good makeup game was scheduled instead – No. 1 Gonzaga x No. 16 Virginia se will face on Saturday at CBS.
With Baylor unable to play his game against Gonzaga and Villanova unable to play his game against Virginia, the Bulldogs and Cavaliers had an opening and made the most of it, providing the university hoops with their best game for the next day Christmas Slate. Gonzaga and Virginia are scheduled to tip at 4 pm Eastern Time at Dickies Arena in Fort Worth, Texas.
One more note: LSU was scheduled to host VCU on Tuesday night, but the game will not be played as scheduled “according to SEC and NCAA COVID-19 protocols,” said LSU in a statement.
Upcoming notable postponements or cancellations
- December 23: UCLA in Oregon
- December 23: State of South Carolina in South Carolina
- December 23: UConn in DePaul
- December 29: South Carolina in Kentucky
- December 30: Syracuse in Wake Forest
- December 31th: State of San Diego at UNLV
- January 2: North Carolina in Syracuse
- January 2: State of San Diego at UNLV
- January 4: UNLV in the state of San Diego
TEAMS WILL NOT COMPETE IN 2020-21
- Bethune-Cookman
- Maryland-Eastern Shore
- Chicago State (season suspended after the start of 0-9, citing the decision to “focus on the health, safety and academic activities of male basketball student-athletes”).
- Ivy League – Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Penn, Princeton and Yale
Notable previous postponements or cancellations
- November 25th: UTSA in Oklahoma
- November 25th: Virginia x Maine (Uncasville, Connecticut)
- November 25th: Central Arkansas on Ole MIss
- November 25th: Gardner-Webb at Duke – rescheduled for December 19, then canceled
- November 25th: Northern Arizona in Arizona
- November 25th to 27th: Creighton on Crossover Classic (Sioux Falls, South Dakota)
- November 25th to 27th: Texas A&M in Crossover Classic (Sioux Falls)
- November 25th: Western Illinois in DePaul
- November 25th: UMass Lowell vs. Florida
- November 25th: Stanford vs. Utah Valley
- November 25th: Drexel at Penn State
- November 26th: Baylor vs. Arizona State at Empire Classic (Uncasville)
- November 26th: Jackson State vs. Ole Miss
- November 27: Arkansas State on Ole Miss
- November 27; Baylor at the Empire Classic (Uncasville)
- November 27: Virginia x Florida (Uncasville)
- November 27: Florida State vs. Gardner-Webb – rescheduled for December 21
- November 28th Oklahoma at UCF
- November 28th: Chicago State on DePaul
- November 29: Baylor at Seton Hall
- November 29: Gardner-Webb in Georgia
- 30th of November: Long Beach State at UCLA
- 30th of November: Belmont Abbey in Charlotte
- December 1: Towson in Maryland
- December 1: State of Alcorn in DePaul
- December 1: Vanderbilt vs. UConn (Uncasville)
- December 2: Colorado in Arizona – rescheduled for December 28
- December 3: Vanderbilt in Legends Classic (Uncasville)
- December 4: UNC Greensboro in Louisville
- December 4th: Florida A&M in South Florida
- December 5th: Gonzaga x Baylor (Indianapolis)
- December 5th: NC State vs. UConn: (Uncasville)
- December 5th: Alabama A&M in the state of Ohio
- December 5th: James Madison in Maryland
- December 5th: UT-Martin in Illinois
- December 5th: Purdue-Fort Wayne at Notre Dame
- December 5th: Ole Miss in Memphis
- December 6: Florida A&M in Nebraska
- December 6: DePaul in the state of Iowa
- December 8: Fordham in Saint John’s
- December 8: Tarleton State in Gonzaga
- December 9th: Louisville in Wisconsin
- December 9th: Michigan State in Virginia
- December 9th: NC State in Michigan
- December 9th: Robert Morris in West Virginia
- December 10: South in Gonzaga
- December 11: São João at UConn
- December 12: Xavier in Providence
- December 12: Northern Arizona in Gonzaga
- December 12: Charleston Southern in Duke
- December 12: Saint John’s at Texas Tech
- December 13: Stanford at USC
- December 13: SIU-Edwardsville in Northwestern
- December 13: Texas in Baylor
- December 13: William & Mary in Virginia
- December 13: UConn in Georgetown
- December 15th: Tarleton State in Baylor
- December 15th: Detroit in Kentucky
- December 15th: Seton Hall in Xavier
- December 16: NC State in Louisville
- December 16: Northern Iowa in Wisconsin
- December 18: Xavier at DePaul
- December 17th: DePaul in Providence
- December 19: Virginia vs. Villanova (at Madison Square Garden)
- December 19: Gardner-Webb at Duke
- December 19: Houston in Alabama
- December 19: South Carolina in Clemson
- December 21: San Diego in Arizona
- December 22: Notre Dame in Syracuse
- December 22: VCU at LSU
- December 22: UNLV in Wyoming