NCAA releases health guidelines for college basketball season

The NCAA has dropped their guidelines for the 2020 college basketball season.

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The NCAA college basketball season is set to start in late November, which means a multitude of new health and safety guidelines will need to be enforced to ensure the student-athletes and faculty all remain safe during the season. The NCAA released those guidelines on Friday, which you can see in their entirety here.

The guidelines include new updates on testing procedures, travel considerations, and access to the court and bench areas.

“This basketball resocialization guidance is based on the best information available in a rapidly changing COVID-19 environment.” said NCAA President Mark Emmert. “It is predicated on the assumption that rapid testing capabilities will be readily available later this year. We will constantly assess emerging information as we prepare for the start of the basketball season at the end of November.”

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NCAA Men’s Basketball regular season to start on November 25th

The NCAA plans to start Men’s Basketball competition on November 25th according to reports.

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Early on Wednesday morning, we finally received an announcement on the start of the Big Ten Football season. Later on Wednesday, we received a similar announcement, but this time with the start of the NCAA Men’s Basketball season, which will reportedly start on November 25th, the day before Thanksgiving.

Practices will also start later than usual, with a date of October 14 reported by Andy Katz.

Michigan State Basketball was originally set to host Oakland in East Lansing to open the 2020 season in a game that would’ve likely started near the end of November.

This start date makes a lot of sense and has been rumored for about a month now as it will coincide with a lengthy holiday break for college students, limiting the chance of COVID-19 spreading among teams in competition.

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