Xavier University men's basketball coach Travis Steele was transparent in the weeks and days leading up to the college basketball season about the possibility of COVID-19 affecting his team.
During a November press conference ahead of his team's season-opener, Steele told reporters: "We've been shut down once before already here at Xavier. It shows how quickly it can be taken from you. Our guys know what's at stake, they know how fragile this is. I think our guys have been pretty responsible, but again, does that mean we're gonna go unscathed through all of this? No. We're probably going to get an interruption at some point, but we have to focus on the things we can control and that's our attitude and our effort every single day.