On February 8, 2020 my family and I went to a Columbus Blue Jackets game when they hosted the Colorado Avalanche. Two days later my grandfather passed away and I spent a week in South Carolina. I attended a few other events by myself before COVID shut down the world, including my final Purdue event on February 27 when the men’s basketball team beat Indiana in Mackey Arena, but those were work related and not family fun. After covering the Indianapolis Shortridge boys basketball sectional final on March 7, 2020 I only worked a handful of high school football games in the fall and no basketball games whatsoever.