rbg
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03-21-21 12:02 AM - Post#322341
In response to rbg
While it will be very difficult-to-impossible to figure out where the positive case originated, A10 Commissioner Bernadette McGlade will need to answer questions about the way the tournament was organized and the accommodations in Dayton.
The entire A10 tournament was supposed to be at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, but was relocated to Richmond and played at VCU and UR.
The women's tournament was originally scheduled to be played at VCU. I believe the league decided to put the men's tournament first and the women's the following week. While all of the women's games were held at VCU, the men's held everything in Richmond and postponed the final game to the following week in Dayton.
If the league had played the men's final on March 7, one day after the semifinals, everyone involved would have been at the same facility they were staying for the week. Instead, the two teams traveled across the country, stayed in a new hotel and brought in at least one ref who had been working in another league in another part of the country - all things that could increase the risk for something to go wrong.
The NCAA will need to answer why they didn't have rooms ready for the 6 refs who arrived when they were told to do so on Sunday, why they didn't have people to keep the refs from going out to dinner after they arrived at the hotel and why they allowed the other 2 refs who worked the ACC game with Ayers to stay.
Edited by rbg on 03-21-21 12:05 AM. Reason for edit: No reason given.
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