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SAN ANTONIO (AP) — With the final weekend of the women’s basketball tournament in sight, coaches and the NCAA say it would be ’’tragic” if a player was lost due to a positive COVID test or a team was knocked out of the title chase by coronavirus protocols.
UConn coach Geno Auriemma said he isn’t opposed to daily tests, but would be OK if they ended it to avoid that scenario; the NCAA says that is not an option.
Auriemma said Wednesday that based on a recent conversation coaches had with medical experts that he understands why Baylor’s Kim Mulkey suggested ending daily testing the last few days of the tournament and thereby eliminating a scenario of a team getting a bye into the title game.