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Mountain West: COVID issues can lead to league forfeits

COLORADO SPRINGS — If a Mountain West Conference contest cannot be played as scheduled due to a team’s inability to participate related to COVID-19 issues, the game shall be considered a forfeit for that team and will not be rescheduled.

The league, of which New Mexico is a member, announced its “COVID-19 Game Cancellation Policy” — which applies to all league-sponsored sports, on Friday.

The conference added that if neither team cannot participate due to COVID-related issues, the game shall be declared a “no contest.” There shall be no minimum roster thresholds for competition.

Forfeited Mountain West games will be recorded as a loss for the team unable to compete, and as a win for the scheduled opponent, for the purposes of conference standings, “determining MW championship participants and MW championships seeding only.