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Breaking down the COVID-19 protocols for the 2021 NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament

If you haven’t heard the news by now, Northwestern women’s basketball is headed to the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2015. As a 7-seed in the Alamo Region, the ‘Cats will face 10-seed UCF on Monday to kick off what they hope will be a memorable March.

With the COVID-19 pandemic still prevalent and the NCAA still doing everything it can to let the show go on, Coach Joe McKeown and crew will be subject, like all other teams competing, to protocols meant to limit the chances of an outbreak within the tournament’s bubble-like environment in San Antonio.