Michigan's athletic department is shutting down for two weeks due to confirmed cases of the B.1.1.7 COVID-19 variant, a department spokesperson confirmed with the Free Press on Saturday night.
The shutdown will affect all sports, including sports that are currently in season like men's and women's basketball and ice hockey.
All teams at the school will be put on pause because of an outbreak of the newest version of COVID. The student journalists at the Michigan Daily were the first to report it.
The pause will start on Sunday, the source told the Free Press. The source was speaking on the condition of anonymity because they weren’t cleared to discuss the matter with the media.