By Harry Minium
First, let's celebrate the good news. There will be men's and women's basketball this season at Chartway Arena.
Old Dominion hasn't played a game or match in any sport since early March, when the COVID-19 pandemic shut down much of the nation and, for a time, all of NCAA college sports.
That was eight long months ago.
Although students returned to campus this fall, ODU officials made the difficult decision to shut down all fall sports. But winter approaches and that inactivity ends on Wednesday, Nov. 25, when the ODU men's basketball team travels to the University of Maryland, the University announced late Thursday.