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How has COVID-19 impacted college athletic departments?

And what will they do moving forward? By Connor Ullathorne The world came to a stand-still. Businesses shut down.  All sporting events, from pickup basketball games at a local gym, to professional sports and NCAA’s March Madness, were canceled or postponed. “Probably one of the eeriest days of my life,” Maggie Pruitt, an assistant director…

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MAAC announces revised men’s and women’s basketball schedules for 2020-21 season

After months of uncertainty, something just became very certain. There will be MAAC basketball this season. The MAAC conference, home of Quinnipiac University men’s and women’s basketball, announced a revised schedule for the 20-2021 season. The season tips off Nov. 25, with the men’s team playing Fairleigh Dickinson and the women’s team playing Central Connecticut…

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Quinnipiac basketball to play with new MAAC protocols

Around this time of year, college basketball would be in full swing, but of course, this is 2020, and nothing is going as planned. MAAC basketball intends to have a “20-game double round-robin conference schedule with five home series and five away series for each team,” which was approved with a 6-5 vote and should…

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Quinnipiac Athletics announces no spectators at People’s United Center this season

There will be no fans this year for games played at the People’s United Center. What does the Quinnipiac community think?