On Tuesday afternoon, the Pac-12 Conference announced that they were not only postponing fall sports, but ending all athletic competitions for the remainder of 2020. While we’re keeping track of the fall sports cancellations as we inch closer to the NCAA’s 50% cancellation trigger, we have to note that the end of athletics in the PAC-12 does immediately impact the Marquette athletics calendar.
Steve Wojciechowski and the men’s basketball team was slated to make the program’s first ever trip to Pauley Pavilion on Saturday, December 12, 2020. Since that’s before January 1, 2021, that game against UCLA has now been cancelled due to the now five-plus month long coronavirus pandemic in the United States.