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Musketeers lose two games in one day

Monday was not a great day if you're a Xavier basketball fan. 

First, the Big East Conference announced that Xavier's Jan. 4 trip to Washington, D.C., is canceled because of COVID-19 issues within Georgetown's program. 

Then, a few hours after head coach Travis Steele held his pre-game press conference in advance of Tuesday's home game against Connecticut, the league announced that Tuesday's game is canceled because of COVID-19 issues within UConn's program. 

The league is referring to these games as "canceled," but in reality, they're closer to postponements. 

Connecticut Huskies head coach Dan Hurley yells for a stop in the second half of the NCAA men's basketball game between the Xavier Musketeers and the Connecticut Huskies on Saturday, Feb. 13, 2021, in Cincinnati.

Initially, the Big East instituted a forfeit policy if teams were unable to play due to COVID-19, but the league reversed that decision last week as a "result of the recent sudden and significant increases in the number of COVID-19 cases nationally and within Big East programs due to the spread of the Omicron variant." 

Under the new policy, conference games are now canceled in the event a school has fewer than seven scholarship players and one coach available for a game. The conference office will attempt to reschedule those games and in the event it cannot be rescheduled, the canceled game will be designated as a no contest. 


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