John Wildhack sends love and prayers to Floyd Little: "as fine a gentleman as you'll ever meet"
Also sends thoughts to Markus Paul, a former SU star and Dallas Cowboys strength coach, he suffered a heart attack
The SU Men's Basketball quarantine ends on Thanksgiving. So the team can practice on Thanksgiving Day Evening
For those wondering, Brad Pike from SU laid out the testing schedule: First one comes at the start of the week, 2nd is 72 hours and the final is within 48 hours of game time. SU uses a lab that generally gets results within 24 hours
Pike said that the nonconference opponents will be wearing the bracelets if they agree to. Said that the players are wearing them at home (before quarantine) to see what their interactions are like outside of the facility.
Herm Frazier says that referees will also wear the contract tracing bracelet during games that coaches wear at practice.
"Basketball is going to be incredibly challenging" -John Wildhack on the upcoming hoops season
Wildhack and Pike said that the players have bikes, cleaning products and Zoom workout programs throughout the quarantine program in the last several days. Neither are concerned about limited practice time ahead of the opener.
Wildhack: "The protocol we built has worked well, we’ve had great support from across the University. Brad Pike has really been our MVP of the last seven months. We all have to be incredibly disciplined."
Wildhack says that no one who doesn’t absolutely have to travel is traveling, and the numbers of their traveling squad is down significantly this year. Wildhack also has traveled to each away football game this year
Pike said that he’s talked with multiple Bryant health officials to make sure they’re up on their COVID-19 testing protocols and said they’ve also been getting PCR tested.
Wildhack said he’s not aware of any NCAA conversations to push back the end of the college basketball season at this moment