Nebraska Beat Writer is Reporting That The MBB Team is Quarantined
Have to believe that this tournament and the NCAA tournament are going to be cancelled.
March 11th, 2020 at 11:19 PM ^
To the Winchester
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March 11th, 2020 at 11:23 PM ^
Odds we play tomorrow?
50-50?
March 11th, 2020 at 11:27 PM ^
Slim to none.
March 11th, 2020 at 11:30 PM ^
And Slim's gone to Texas.
March 11th, 2020 at 11:28 PM ^
I'd be shocked if this isn't canceled.
Indiana probably can't play now either.
March 11th, 2020 at 11:28 PM ^
With all the other cancellations piling up, I highly doubt there’s a tournament at all. Once the first domino falls (NBA), there’s less pressure on administrators to feel like they’re the ones setting the tone.
March 11th, 2020 at 11:32 PM ^
If Hoiberg tests positive, then 0. If not, then 50-50. I really think this seems like a matter of time even if tomorrow's game are played.
March 12th, 2020 at 12:14 AM ^
The tests aren't instantaneous like that, are they?
March 12th, 2020 at 12:32 AM ^
They’re pretty quick if you don’t have to send the sample far away. I think it’s about 30 minutes for the test itself. The delay has been in getting the test to a lab and getting through the backlog of other samples awaiting testing.
March 12th, 2020 at 12:39 AM ^
It's a PCR test so takes a few hours in a lab but obviously capacity is strained so quarantine and wait seems to be the current status quo.
March 12th, 2020 at 12:58 AM ^
We've been told the whole process takes about 3 days for my hospital. But they might be able to expidite it due to NCAA ties (as a lot of the local testing is done by the major university hospitals)
March 12th, 2020 at 12:42 AM ^
Report is that Hoiberg tested negative...so that's good.
March 12th, 2020 at 12:22 AM ^
5dimes has a -165 chance the tourney gets cancelled
March 11th, 2020 at 11:30 PM ^
Quarantined from the flu?
March 12th, 2020 at 12:41 AM ^
The flu has vaccines and treatments. Covid19 is new and also appears to be deadlier than the flu. Italy is wartime triaging patients because of how overwhelmed their healthcare system is. Our hospitals are not going to be able to handle all the the excess patients they are going to get if we don’t effectively contain/flatten the curve or whatever you want to call it.
But good joke bub
Well he only has the flu so, he's right?!
Don’t think it had been reported at the time that it wasn’t Corona. People equating this pandemic to the flu are wrong in general although obviously in this case it worked out.
Regardless, you shouldn’t work if you have the flu if you have the means to take time off.
The flu has a vaccine, but is only partially effective since there are dozens (if not hundreds) of influenza strains and each year the vaccine producers make an educated guess as to which strains to include in that year's vaccine - which cannot account for novel strains that have not been previously encountered. People still can and do get the flu even after vaccination - it is not a magic bullet (but is still advisable to receive every year, imperfect as it is).
The treatment for flu and coronavirus are also practically identical - the nature of the symptoms are mostly the same and only in some cases are the coronavirus symptoms more severe. For people with compromised immune systems, the flu is just as dangerous as this new virus.
March 11th, 2020 at 11:33 PM ^
It would be awful if this is how X and Teske have their careers end. Not that I think they should ignore public health risks, it’s just a shame.
March 11th, 2020 at 11:35 PM ^
This might be the tipping point right here.
If he's positive for corona, no one is bouncing a basketball competitively until next fall.
March 11th, 2020 at 11:38 PM ^
Hoiberg has a pretty extensive cardiac history.
March 11th, 2020 at 11:42 PM ^
The ncaa tournament isn’t happening, the sooner that gets accepted the better. No big ten team that’s played nebraska in the last two weeks could go
March 11th, 2020 at 11:43 PM ^
Hoiberg coaching tonight is why public health officials have to go over the top to get people to listen. It’s just fucking dumb for him to be out there but he’s a “tough” guy so he wanted to fight through it
March 12th, 2020 at 12:06 AM ^
On the other hand, he could have felt 100% normal. Did he/they say he felt ill beforehand? (Genuinely asking the question, I don't know)
That seems to be the scariest part of the virus. You have roughly a four day incubation period of feeling totally normal (while carrying and spreading the virus), and then you can break into a fever at the drop of a hat. You can go from normal to a 103+ degree temp in a flash. Not a huge deal for most healthy people, but you don't want something like that hitting you so quickly when you're elderly, asthmatic, morbidly obese, etc. etc.
March 12th, 2020 at 12:07 AM ^
He felt sick this morning but decided to coach the team anyways. It’s just dumb and once he recovers he should 100 percent be reprimanded for it
March 12th, 2020 at 12:46 AM ^
Yeah, if he had symptoms then that's just idiotic. Especially since he'd been traveling, on a campus, and so forth. All types of indicators. This is also a good example of why things are having to be shut down. Some people just refuse to stay at home, even when they know they should.
March 11th, 2020 at 11:48 PM ^
Is it Michigan or Nebraska or both. Assuming a typo.
March 11th, 2020 at 11:53 PM ^
Men’s Basketball
March 11th, 2020 at 11:48 PM ^
Yup hoop squad might as well come back home.
March 11th, 2020 at 11:53 PM ^
The players were released from the locker room. The coach was taken to the hospital. All I’ve seen for now. Hopefully looks like a false alarm.
March 12th, 2020 at 12:09 AM ^
Until the tests come back they are likely quarantined at the hotel
March 12th, 2020 at 12:24 AM ^
Just stupid. Keep them in the locker room until the tests come back. Not take them to the hotel. Sigh. Just stupidity all around.
March 12th, 2020 at 12:29 AM ^
This season is done
They won't get a test result back from Hoiberg before the games tomorrow and it would be entirely irresponsible to play those games with that uncertainty. If PROS are sitting out, they can't make amateurs play. Sad circumstances for seniors, but this is bigger than sports. This is a global problem and needs to be handled like one
March 12th, 2020 at 12:35 AM ^
I have Washington State vs. Colorado on right now. Starting the 2nd half. If Hoiberg tests positive, I'd say is very possible this will be the last college hoops game of the year.
You could have gotten good odds in Vegas back in January if you said "Washington State will win the last NCAA D-1 basketball game of the 2019-2020 season!"
(Colorado has sort of stunk it up toward the end of the season here)
He’s been released and appears to just have a common cold
ya ok. maybe one healthy person on the planet under the age of 22 has died from this. so lets go all panic mode. if anything, those dudes on the court are likely in the safest place possible. but hey, that's just me.
This shits just crazy. My daughters an RN at a level 1 trauma center and it’s all hand on deck. To make things worse, there’s a huge uptick in flu cases so shits just going crazy. She was scheduled to have 3 days off but found out it’s not happening.
This is getting ridiculous! It's a cold virus! Just a really contagious one because no one has ever had it before. The media is scaring everyone into thinking they will die if they get it. Most experience it as a minor cold and just like the flu, a lot of cases will go unreported because people will just have a cold.
I get that at risk people need to be very careful. The rest of us just need to practice good hygiene. We should just expose everyone to it and it will run its course in a week and be done, like the old chicken pox parties...
I totally agree. Given the number of cases in the U.S. is over 1200 and will go to 2000 in a few days is far less than the total population of near 330 million. The perception is 50% of the population will become infected and within the next few weeks. We're a long way from 165 million getting infected.
March 12th, 2020 at 10:00 AM ^
italy had 200 cases five days ago. Do you know how exponential growth works? I think its unlikely 165 million get infected but looking at current total infections is just a sign someone has no idea what they are talking about
Have not heard Sam and Ira discussing this as of 0800. Every thing is in a state of flux right now. More meetings and decisions yet to come on not only B1G as well, plus the odds of the NCAA tournament being cancelled increases by the hour.
Question is, what happens to CBS and that $1B+ contract? Talk about taking a hit. Given the current status with no fans attending any of the games, it is a disaster. Not to mention the new sports betting rules...