when the results come back and IвЂ™m awake ready to take the texts.вЂќ вЂњHere, IвЂ™m getting texts from the doc and the trainer at 2 a.m.

вЂњItвЂ™s been a high anxiety thing,вЂќ Kansas Coach Bill Self said, adding that he has been up late at night awaiting daily test results. All that they have endured to get to the carrot of this stage can be wiped out, or at least compromised, with a single positive test. It was why so many of the teams that are here for the tournament, and those in Texas for the womenвЂ™s tournament that will begin Sunday, have been particularly on edge. This is what you dream of as a college player and a coach, and to get it taken away like this is just a heartbreaking moment in their young lives.вЂќДЄ team dropping out because of a virus test within its program was among the worst-case scenarios for the N.C.A.A., which stands to make $850 million in television revenue from the menвЂ™s tournament.Д«ut it was a possibility that had lurked in the background as the tournament began with four play-in games on Thursday followed by 32 first-round games on Friday and Saturday. вЂњIt was devastating,вЂќ said Coach Mike Rhoades, whose team had been undergoing daily testing for the last three weeks, said on a videoconference on Saturday night. Since the 68-team tournament bracket was locked on Tuesday night, V.C.U.вЂ™s departure - which necessitated a no-contest - meant that Oregon, the seventh seed in the West Region, advanced to the second round. V.C.U.вЂ™s athletic director, Ed McLaughlin, said the Rams had enough players, but that health officials in Marion County, which includes Indianapolis, were concerned about the spate of positive tests in recent days. The N.C.A.A.вЂ™s coronavirus standards dictate that teams can play with at least five players who are not held out by either a positive test or contact tracing. That cold reality found a victim on Saturday night when Virginia Commonwealth, the 10th-seeded team in the West region, stunningly dropped out of the tournament just more than three hours before it was scheduled to tip off against Oregon because it had received вЂњmultiple positive testsвЂќ over the last 48 hours, the school said. Isolation and anxiety were part of the compact for four months.ДЄ positive test wonвЂ™t just pause a season it can end it. menвЂ™s tournament, which the governing body could ill afford to have canceled for the second year in a row.Д«ut there would also be positive tests, pauses from play, and schedules reconstructed on the fly. There would be games, college sports administrators declared, because there needed to be a path to the N.C.A.A. INDIANAPOLIS - It was a Faustian bargain that college basketball made last autumn when it plowed ahead with a season into the headwinds of the coronavirus pandemic.

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