The 10th seeded VCU’s sudden departure from the 2021 NCAA Tournament stemmed from three players who tested positive for COVID-19 over a 48-hour period, sources told CBS Sports. This is the first time since last summer that VCU had a player test positive for COVID-19, a source said, and this led to a game without a verdict in the planned game against Oregon, no. 7, before the knockdown of Saturday night took place.
Internally, VCU asks if the Atlantic 10 Tournament title contest website is responsible for the program that hosts the NCAA Tournament. Sources told CBS Sports that VCU, St. Bonaventure and the entire crew for the event all stayed at the Dayton Marriott – right across the street from UD Arena, where the title game is located in Dayton, Ohio.
“I am shocked. St. Bonaventure has no positive cases,” one source said.
Nr. 9 selected St. Bonaventure played Saturday and fell 76-61 to the No. 8 seeded LSU in the first round.
Roger Ayers, official basketball official, won the Atlantic 10 tournament title game between St. Bonaventure and VCU worked. He then tested positive for COVID-19 after arriving in Indianapolis for the NCAA Tournament. Ayers is currently struggling with the coronavirus and told CBS Sports he has been struggling all week.
“The hotel was packed,” a source told CBS Sports. “They had a kind of other tournament there. People who did not follow protocols walked through the hotel and lobby without masks. There were people there who were not from the A-10. The NCAA can determine who is there. , who’s in the buildings, in the hotels, in the conference center.You have to have a credential on which you carry the picture, which you wear all around your neck.Everyone has to wear masks, four people to an elevator, and they need “The NCAA has complete control over what’s going on.”
That was not entirely the case at the Dayton Marriott.
‘There were a few [other] event there, “the source added. There were children, parents and people with differences of opinion [about COVID-19] and the hotel staff – I saw the ladies at the check – in shouting at people walking through the foyer to put on their masks. ‘
When league spokesman Drew Dickerson reached the following statement with CBS Sports, league spokesman Drew Dickerson shared the following statement with CBS Sports: “A-10 teams were all in the same hotel. The teams “All separate floors apart from each other and separately from the public. The officials did the same. There was no mixing with teams; teams had dedicated meeting rooms that were separate from everyone and separate from each other.”
VCU’s coaching staff met with the players on their dedicated hotel floor on Saturday afternoon before their scheduled game against Oregon. The three players who tested positive may not participate. It is not yet known when the team – and the players who tested positive – will be able to leave for Virginia.