Tonight’s St. John’s game against the Butler Bulldogs is cancelled because of “COVID-19 health and safety protocols within the Red Storm men’s basketball program” — in other words, positive cases.
Just today, the Big East announced that the previous rule on COVID cancellations would be revised. The rule was that a team that lacks enough healthy, non-COVID-positive bodies to field a team would be assessed a forfeit. That rule made more sense before the current surge of COVID-19 cases, featuring a new variant that regularly infects vaccinated individuals.
(By all accounts, vaccination helps keep the infection mild, if you are wondering — but this site will not become a place for the current fights in the wider culture.