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I hope they just go ahead and test the players and anyone going (125 tickets per team as of now) to the the NCAA tournament beforehand.

@kjayhawks But would be a death sentence to my 88 year old copd riddled grandfather. If the symptoms showed up faster it would be no big deal, it’s a ticking time bomb for the elderly is the scary part and it spreads fast.

This team can take all comers. No need to hide. Bring it! I’m afraid we may be denied our opportunity to watch our boys crush the field. :(

Oh man, that would be a hollow championship. I enjoy the drama even though we come up short all too often.

Weird times.

Looks like a Jazz player has tested positive for covid-19. Oh boy

Looks like a nba player for OKC or Utah was ill at tonight’s game - they cancelled the game and then the season. The nba is done for the year.

@Texas-Hawk-10 They are looking for smaller venues (in the same cities) for the final four and champ games now.

Maybe the Big12 should ban fans at the tournament too. Not for COVID-19, but to get ready for an NCAA tournament played that way.

Gotta be an NCAA conspiracy against KU.

I can’t wait to hear every word Self yells, the refs probably aren’t as eager.

@FarmerJayhawk said in NCAA Tournament: Should it happen?:

@dylans said in NCAA Tournament: Should it happen?:

I wish they’d do an Olympic village type setting - all games one venue. Then you could test enough people to fill that sucker a couple times over with sequestered, healthy people for the duration of the tourney.

So since there’s no point in playing the games in big domes, I move we play the whole thing at Allen. It’s reasonably sized and about halfway for everyone. And since there’s only 1 case in Kansas and it only kills old folks, just let the students in. Can’t hurt anything.

I always think the tournament should be held on the favorites home court. Imagine the Allen Fieldhouse crowd cheering on a Final Four game in Lawrence! Rocket sauce

Are cheerleaders essential staff? If so I think we all have a case for admittance!

I wish they’d do an Olympic village type setting - all games one venue. Then you could test enough people to fill that sucker a couple times over with sequestered, healthy people for the duration of the tourney.

Just announced - NCAA recommends no fans at the NCAA tournament. As of now it’s it’s just Ohio ncaa games that will have no fans. https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/28885087/governor-no-fans-ohio-ncaa-tournament-games ↗

Re-listened I did hear right to first time. Mark Emmert says no fans at the NCAA tournament.

https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/28885422/ncaa-says-tournament-go-fans ↗

Wow

@mayjay well my neighbor has been struck by lightening 4 times... some people never learn. His brother won’t stand near him during a storm. Others learn fast. Lol

600 confirmed infected in the US yesterday. If we are like Italy we will have 9,000 cases in 10 more days.

@jayballer73 I think it would be interesting if they would allow 1,000 fans spread out throughout the stadium - kinda like a Missouri game. But the ticket prices would be outrageous. As opposed to completely empty stadiums, but that would not happen as you still have too many choke points putting all those people in the same places.

@kjayhawks hoping for ff mop too!

@FarmerJayhawk said in 2020 Recruiting:

If we’re all judged by our worst moments...

This is what defines people, how we respond in the worst most pressure packed moments. It’s easy to do right under good circumstances.

That being said Silvio dropped the stool of his own volition. McCormack was the one I thought was frightening in person. Silvio looked like a goofy ass kid imitating his wrassling heroes before he realized how dumb his actions were. I’m thankful he had that moment of realization or he would be gone already, but as is may be packing his bags.

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All kinds of subplots, if this was the real bracket.

@wissox badgers and @jayballer73 feared BYU both a possibility after getting thru Grimes’ Houston squad. A weak 2 in Creighton and everyone’s favorite Duke lurking as the three seed. Oh the bracket fun we could have.

@mayjay I would feel better not getting off on a technicality; it doesn’t look like the NCAA will follow their own guidelines, so it may be moot. It looks to me like the NCAA will penalize KU and KU will have to fight it in court if they want a favorable outcome. Problem is I don’t know if they can get a favorable outcome. If Adidas is allowed to give money to kids for KU and KU doesn’t get in trouble then it’ll open it wide up for the shoecos to fully run college basketball openly. The NCAA wants to maintain its control over member institutions and more importantly it’s cash cow the NCAA tournament. But if KU wins they may ultimately lose by allowing NIKE to openly buy players on a scale ADIDAS may not be able to.

Personally I just want it cleaned up to a point we can pretend it’s amateur athletics.

Nigeria Is Battling Another Viral Disease

While the new coronavirus is beginning to test the country's public health system, Lassa fever may have beaten it to the punch. Nigeria's already gripped by an active outbreak of the severe viral hemorrhagic fever, recording around 774 cases and 132 deaths across 26 states since the beginning of the year. Lassa fever is also far deadlier than coronavirus, with experts estimating a 23 percent mortality rate.

How bad is this epidemic? Statistics suggest it'll not only surpass last year's 810 cases, but will also last longer and cause more damage.

Thankfully this one shouldn’t spread as nearly far as Coronavirus. More like MERS

So I was talking to a customer of mine (older man who just had kidney surgery a week ago) when he mentioned an old hired hand of his stopped in; hadn’t seen him in 16 years. He had been living in Nebraska, but the last few years has been living north of Seattle in Washington. He felt bad that his wife and kids were too sick to make the trip... ugg 🤦‍♂️ Common sense would go a long way.

@StLJhawk said in Boy guys I really just don't know best to keep tabs:

@dylans

Well that would be one strategy I guess. Another would be to prepare for a rough couple of months as best you can.

This isn’t directed at anyone in specific - Are many poorly prepared and living week to week paycheck to paycheck? This is a serious question. Is that why the nationwide panic? I live as I always have - prepared for about anything. Keep a years worth of beef in the freezer, a months worth of perishables on hand, several months of freezer meals and non-perishable products, vehicles are all full of fuel. Always be ready...I guess it’s the old Boy Scout in me.

Why are we still allowed to have mass gatherings? Seems like an easy policy to stop the spread of the virus. Request the stoppage of crowds of over 100 people until things calm down. Maybe delay the ncaa tournament so all those travelers don’t grab a little COVID-19 souvenir to take home with them. You won’t see me at a ballgame until next season, not worth the risk.

Or is it just the fear of the unknown menace as it advances across the globe now threatening our very doorstep?

The best thing to come of this is the economy grinding to a halt in China. - look at the air pollution maps. It only took a couple weeks of shutdowns to vastly improve air quality in China - their real number one killer.

I’ll admit I sure as hell don’t like what’s going on, has me nervous for my grandparents and elderly friends. The only way I can see making it much worse is panicking. Or perhaps if the Saudis devalued the oil market destroying the tax base for many of the rural communities that are already strapped for cash making medical funding harder to come by...

No doubt it’s the governments plan to save social security. Those suckers just keep clinging to life. Sheesh

Probably better not riot - it looks like over 80% of people will have only mild symptoms. Gonna have to come up with better retirement plan.

I should’ve bought up masks, then I could hand them out so the sick suckers don’t cough on me. Unfortunately they aren’t going to do much other than serve as a reminder to not touch your face. I did see where a creative Asian fellow was using thong underwear for a mask. Lol colorful and 3 for $6.

@jayballer73 Resting them up was always my philosophy too, but they won the Big12 tournament in 2008 too. Those guys didn’t know how to quit and I don’t see any quit in this team either. Don’t expect an early exit.

Thinking about it maybe the football field would be better for a team that hangs it’s hat on defense and dunks instead of long range shooting. 🧐 over analyzing it now?!?

Anywhere, but Seattle.

Omaha/Houston would be my choice.

@StLJhawk So buy some face masks and loot the country while it’s on the crapper!

Reading that would really disappoint me if I was going to the tournament. However, I’d be surprised if they played any way, but hard.

Why mess with chemistry? He’ll play if needed.

@mayjay I went a full decade without catching a cold...then I had kids. I guess the safest rout is getting those suckers adopted off. Lol

@BeddieKU23 Next year won’t be like this year, for sure. But it’ll be interesting seeing the roster churn and how Self manages it to get the most complete team he can by this time next season.

@drgnslayr Dok! Best shooter in NCAA history! Percentages don’t lie!!!

@mayjay I had my thumb in the middle of the screen as I scrolled. Looked like a nice team photo that way. 😝

@jayballer73 That’s how you lose with class! We could not win -they must be the best freaking team in America. None of that crybaby the refs cost us junk. Boyton does a good job of that too.

When healthcare was made universally available and affordable my premium doubled and reduced the level of service I had be receiving (no longer offered). I fully understand why everyone isn’t insured. When the insurance companies thought they had everyone forced into buying their product they raised prices. I don’t want the government involved in my healthcare at all, they mess everything up.

As far as the numbers go I have healthcare and am not likely to get counted if infected, I have to be pretty near death to go to the doctors office outside of routine maintenance. The number of infected and survived is far higher that we will ever know, but we will hear about every death.

This is a new virus, new is scary. Unfortunately there is no way to quarantine it now, a month ago yes. Now it’s spread to too many areas/people to be contained. Instances of new infection in areas hit first are going down indicating it’s burning itself out. We are in the front end here, but within a few months it’ll be over and we have the summer on our side - less forced inside time we trade domes for open top stadiums. With any luck it won’t get as bad here as it did overseas just do to timing (it won’t be due to preparedness).

When you are not only judge, jury and executioner, but also run the investigation and decide who gets investigated...that’s the best way to fairness in my experience. Lol

Jacque has been an assistant in Brooklyn for several years now. Glad he got a shot at the head coaching job again, this is a much better chance than he had in Orlando.

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@stoptheflop Beard puts together a good defensive game plan against KU every time

So just kick the defender and draw free throws all game long? Dumb announcers

@wissox said in Win It Outright Game Thread:

Going 17-1 in conference is really really good.

Thank you Baylor. Nice getting pushed

Tech is really attacking Dok. Trying to foul him up.

@BShark said in Win It Outright Game Thread:

@stoptheflop said in Win It Outright Game Thread:

I'm glad to see that a least one other B12 school has great fan support for bb.

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Damn Coronavirus. 😂

@RockChalkinTexas said in Win It Outright Game Thread:

@BeddieKU23 said in Win It Outright Game Thread:

I just cant refs just quit your job

Almost wish for Higgins. Almost.

Let’s not get too drastic. I have some blindfolds, maybe we could get a fair call that way.

Touch fouls one way. Muggings the other...

@Crimsonorblue22 Too much Dick?

@Bwag 😂