College basketball: Schedule, latest COVID-19 news for the 2020-21 season

Tonight's Missouri Valley tournament quarterfinal game between Northern Iowa and Drake has been canceled.

The Bulldogs advance to the semifinals and will face the winner of the Missouri State-Valparaiso game on Saturday, March 6 at 4:05 p.m. ET.

The American Athletic Conference announced Monday evening the postponement of Thursday's (Feb. 25) and Sunday's (Feb. 28) Wichita vs. SMU games "due to a continuation of a suspension of activities at SMU."

The AAC also postponed Saturday's East Carolina-Tulsa contest "due to a continuation of a suspension of activities at East Carolina," per the release.

On Monday, Iona announced that it will not be able to finish its regular season because of a positive COVID-19 test within the program's Tier 1 personnel. 

The Gaels plan on competing in the 2021 MAAC tournament that begins on March 8. 

Fordham athletics has paused all competitions and practices after a spike in COVID-19 cases on campus. "The pause is necessary to reduce the infection rate, as required by New York state," according to the release.

Fordham women's basketball holds a 11-3 record, while the men are 2-11. The women had to postpone the La Salle (2/14), George Mason (2/18) and George Washington (2/20) games. The men had to cancel its contest against St. Bonaventure on Wednesday.

Baylor announced that its previously-postponed home game against West Virginia has been rescheduled for Thursday, Feb. 25. It was originally scheduled for Jan. 12, but was postponed to Feb. 18. The contest was then postponed once more. 

Tipoff and television info have not yet been determined. 

On Friday, the ACC announced that two women's basketball games have been postponed.

The Louisville-Syracuse game scheduled for Sunday, Feb. 14, was postponed because of "a positive test, subsequent quarantining and contact tracing within the Louisville women’s basketball program."

The Notre Dame-NC State game scheduled for Monday, Feb. 15, was postponed due to "positive tests, subsequent quarantining and contact tracing within the Notre Dame women’s basketball program."

Due to a positive COVID-19 test and contact-tracing, the Memphis men's basketball program is on pause "until further notice." Thursday's game against Cincinnati has been postponed as a result.

East Carolina men's basketball is temporarily pausing all activities due to a positive COVID-19 test, contact-tracing and quarantining. The pause postpones the series against Temple, which was scheduled to begin on Thursday and to conclude on Saturday.

On Monday, the Big 12 announced that three additional Baylor games have been postponed because of the conference's men's basketball interruption guidelines. The games are listed below.

• Saturday, Feb. 13 vs. Texas Tech
• Monday, Feb. 15 at West Virginia
• Thursday, Feb. 18 vs. West Virginia

The Big 12 previously announced that the Bears' game at Oklahoma on Wednesday, Feb. 10, had been postponed.

On Sunday, Siena announced that it had paused team activities because of positive COVID-19 test results among its Tier 1 personnel group. 

The Saints' next two games on Friday, Feb. 12 and Saturday, Feb. 13, against Canisius have been postponed. 

On Sunday, Feb. 7, the Florida-Tennessee and Georgia-Texas A&M men's basketball games scheduled for February 10 were postponed due to COVID-19. This decision comes in response to positive COVID-19 tests, contact tracing and quarantining within Florida and Texas A&M's programs. Make up dates for the two games have not yet been announced.

As a result of these postponements, Tennessee and Georgia will play at 8 p.m. ET on Wednesday, Feb. 10. That game was originally scheduled for March 3.

Today's game between Canisius and Quinnipiac men's basketball will not be played following an inconclusive COVID test result from a Tier 1 member of the Canisius program.

The two teams are still scheduled to play each other tomorrow, Sunday, Jan. 31, pending follow-up test results. 

On Monday, the MAAC announced significant schedule changes that affect all of its men's basketball programs. 

On Tuesday, Oregon men's basketball announced it had paused all team activities "because of COVID-19 protocols."

The Ducks' next three games, all on the road, have been postponed: UCLA on Thursday, Jan. 28, USC on Saturday, Jan. 30, and UCLA on Monday, Feb. 1. Makeup dates will be announced once finalized. 

The UNC Greensboro-Furman game scheduled for tonight has been postponed because of positive COVID-19 tests and quarantine requirements within Furman's program. 

The Paladins' game against Chattanooga on Saturday, Jan. 30, has also been postponed, due to positive positive tests and quarantine protocols within Chattanooga's program.

Furman's next scheduled game is Wednesday, Feb. 3, against Samford.

Two upcoming TCU men's basketball games are postponed after head coach Jamie Dixon announced on Monday that he tested positive for COVID-19. The Horned Frogs' January 20 matchup against Texas Tech and January 23 game versus Texas are the games that are affected. 

Dixon tweeted that he is now self-isolating. 

The UCLA-California game scheduled for Sunday, Jan. 24, has been postponed "due to recent COVID-19 developments within the Golden Bears’ program."

Rescheduling details will be announced once a final decision is made. 

The Notre Dame-Howard contest scheduled for Monday, Jan. 18, has been canceled due to COVID-19 related concerns within the Bison program, per a press release from Howard.

"We are all incredibly disappointed by this cancellation," Howard Director of Athletics Kery Davis said in the release. "This was a tremendous opportunity to bring national exposure to our basketball team and the University. However, it goes without saying that the health and welfare of our student-athletes is our priority first and foremost."

On Friday, Jan. 15, Oklahoma State announced that its January 16 home game against Oklahoma has been postponed due to COVID-19. The Cowboys paused team activities indefinitely following a positive COVID-19 test within the program.

The Virginia women's basketball team has canceled the rest of its season, the school announced on Thursday, due to healthy and safety concerns.

The Cavaliers last played on Dec. 13. The decision to cancel the rest of the season after the program postponed or canceled six games because of COVID protocols. Injuries have also limited the team with available players.

"As difficult as it is to end our season in this manner, it is a necessary one," Virginia coach Tina Thompson said in the release. "The health and safety of our student-athletes will always be the number one priority. We will continue to focus on their overall well-being and prepare to resume competition in the fall.”

Virginia is the second ACC women's team to cancel its season. Duke did so on Dec. 25.

The DePaul-Georgetown game scheduled for tonight has been postponed due to COVID-19 issues within the Hoyas' program. A makeup date has not been determined. 

The Iowa State-Kansas State game scheduled for Wednesday, Jan. 13, has been postponed due to the Wildcats being unable to meet the Big 12's COVID-19 requirements. 

Both schools will work with the conference to reschedule the game. 

The ACC announced on Friday that the Clemson men's basketball team's against North Carolina and Syracuse have been postponed. They were going to be played on Saturday, Jan. 9 and Tuesday, Jan. 12.

The postponements come due to a positive COVID test and subsequent quarantining and contact tracing with Clemson. Because of the postponements, the UNC-Syracuse game that was scheduled on Jan. 2 will now be played on Jan. 12 at 9 p.m. on the ACC Network.

On Thursday, Jan. 7, NCAA Senior Vice President of Basketball Dan Gavitt announced that the First Four of the 2021 Division I NCAA men's basketball championship will not begin two days after Selection Sunday. Watch the full clip below:

.@JonRothstein spoke with NCAA Senior Vice President of Basketball Dan Gavitt to discuss the announcement that the NCAA Tournament will be held in Indiana, including safety protocols and scheduling. pic.twitter.com/HGVEFQsBTV

— CBS Sports Network (@CBSSportsNet) January 7, 2021

Gavitt stated that there will be more time between selections and the first games as teams must travel to Indianapolis with the entirety of the tournament being played in Indiana due to COVID-19. This will be the first time in its 10-year history that the First Four is not held in Dayton, Ohio. 

The Arizona-Washington game scheduled for Friday, Jan.8, has been postponed due to "recent COVID-19 impacts within the Washington program."

Both teams will work with the Pac-12 to reschedule the game. Arizona's game at Washington State on Sunday, Dec. 10 will go on as scheduled. 

On Tuesday, Baylor announced that women's basketball head coach Kim Mulkey tested positive for COVID-19 on Monday. The program is currently restricting team activities.

As a result, the Bears' game against UConn on Thursday, Jan. 7, has been canceled. Mulkey is showing no symptoms and will isolate for 10 days before returning to the team.

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It's official. Indiana is the state synonymous with basketball and it will host the entire 2021 NCAA DI men's basketball championship. The NCAA announced the news Monday, which you can read in its entirety here. These are some of the main points:

• Games will be played on two courts inside Lucas Oil Stadium and at Bankers Life Fieldhouse, Hinkle Fieldhouse, Indiana Farmers Coliseum, Mackey Arena in West Lafayette and Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall in Bloomington. Only one game at a time will be played at Lucas Oil Stadium.
• The NCAA will partner with a local health provider to administer COVID-19 tests within the controlled environment for players, coaching staffs, administrators and officials
• The official hosts of the tournament are Ball State, Butler, the Horizon League, Indiana, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis and Purdue, which are lending their facilities and staffs to assist with tournament operations.
• The Indiana Convention Center will be used for practices with multiple courts set up inside the venue. 
• Most of the tournament teams will stay at Marriott properties, which are connected to the convention center by skywalks. All teams will stay on dedicated hotel floors, with physically distanced meeting and dining rooms and secure transportation to and from competition venues.
• "Mask Madness" will be a big part of this year's event and include thousands of NCAA-donated masks throughout the state.
• Selection Sunday is still scheduled for March 14. The Final Four and NCAA title game are set for April 3 and 5.
• The NCAA is working with local officials to determine if fans can attend games. A limited number of family members of student-athletes and coaches may attend games.
• CBS Sports and Turner Sports will continue to show all 67 games of the tournament across TBS, CBS, TNT, truTV and digital platforms.
• Duke (above) won the NCAA championship the last time the Final Four was in Indianapolis. It's also hosted in 1980, 1991, 1997, 2000, 2006 and 2010. It's also set to host in 2026.

Villanova men's basketball announced it has resumed activities and returned to practice on Sunday. The program went on pause on Dec. 27 due to COVID-19 positive test results among Tier 1 staff members, including head coach Jay Wright.

The school release said Wright has participated in virtual team and staff meetings the past week and is targeting a return to the sidelines for Villanova's next matchup on Tuesday night at DePaul.

Duke men's basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski will miss Saturday's game at Florida State after being "exposed to an individual not in the travel party who tested positive to COVID-19." 

Associate head coach Jon Scheyer will serve in Krzyzewski's place for the game. 

On Friday, Marquette women's basketball announced that it had paused team activities due to a positive COVID-19 test. The Golden Eagles' next three games against DePaul on Jan. 3, Creighton on Jan. 6 and Villanova on Jan. 9 have been postponed. 

The East Carolina-Wichita State game scheduled for Wednesday, Dec. 30, has been postponed due to positive COVID-19 tests and contact tracing within the Pirates' program. 

The game will be rescheduled at the first opportunity when both teams are available prior to Sunday, Feb. 21, according to a release from the American Athletic Conference. 

The Big East conference has announced that January 2's game between No. 5 Villanova and No. 22 Xavier has been postponed due to COVID-19 issues within the Villanova program. 

That game has not been rescheduled for a later date yet. 

On Sunday, TCU men's basketball program announced that they will be playing Prarie View A&M on Wednesday, December 30, instead of Texas Southern. 

The game will take place at 8 p.m. ET and will be aired on ESPN+. 

The Southland Conference released a series of scheduling changes in men's basketball following Texas A&M-Corpus Christi's announced 14-day pause of team activities due to COVID-19 protocols.

The Islanders' next three conference games against Southeastern Louisiana (Jan. 2), Stephen F. Austin (Jan. 6) and Abilene Christian (Jan. 9) have been postponed to later dates to be announced. Their non-conference game against Texas, originally scheduled for Tuesday, Dec. 29, has been canceled.

On Friday, Dec. 25, Duke announced that the remainder of its women's basketball season is canceled due to safety concerns regarding COVID-19.

The Blue Devils played four games during the 2020-21 season and had been on pause since December 16 due to positive COVID-19 tests and contact tracing within the program.

Pitt announced Saturday that men's basketball head coach Jeff Capel had tested positive for COVID-19. He will miss the team's next game against Louisville on Tuesday, Dec. 22. 

No additional positive tests results were found within the program. 

On Saturday, Dec. 19, Connecticut announced that its road game at DePaul scheduled for Dec. 23 has been postponed due to COVID-19.

No makeup date has been announced.

Wednesday's ACC/Big Ten Challenge matchup between No. 13 Wisconsin and No. 25 Louisville will be postponed. Both schools will explore rescheduling for a later date, per Wisconsin's press release.

The Badgers also announced they have replaced its matchup with the Cardinals for a home game against Rhode Island, now scheduled for 4:30 p.m. ET on Wednesday. The game will air on Big Ten Network.

The UConn men's basketball program announced Sunday night it has temporarily paused all team activities following a member's positive COVID-19 test. 

As a result, the UConn-St. John's game originally scheduled for Friday, Dec. 11, has been postponed.     

The Iowa State-DePaul men's basketball game scheduled for tonight, Sunday, Dec. 6, has been canceled due to COVID-19 protocols inside the DePaul program.

The Cyclones (1-1) have their next scheduled game on Friday, Dec. 11 at Iowa. The Blue Demons have not yet started their season and are now next scheduled to play Friday at Seton Hall.

Saturday's top-2 matchup between No. 1 Gonzaga and No. 2 Baylor will not be played today, after one student-athlete and one non-student-athlete for Gonzaga tested positive for COVID-19.

The two teams mutually agreed not to play the game Saturday but have agreed to attempt to reschedule the meeting for a later date, according to Baylor's statement.

Two Big Ten men's basketball teams have canceled games scheduled for Saturday, Dec. 5.

• Ohio State's home game with Alabama A&M was canceled after Alabama A&M shared results of its most recent COVID-19 testing.
• Maryland's road game at James Madison has also been canceled due to a positive COVID-19 test within the JMU program.