ISU game postponed

[KsJoey]

#KStateMBB's game vs Iowa State set for Wednesday, Jan. 13 has been postponed due to COVID-19 protocols.

K-State will work with the Big 12 Conference and Iowa State to reschedule the game.

https://k-st.at/2LCJgjU

[gdgjr78]

Thought this might happen with only 6 scholarship players available Sat.

[KsJoey]

Thought this might happen with only 6 scholarship players available Sat.

Games like that should be postponed imo. Having only 6 scholarship players available, sets the team up to lose. Its a huge disadvantage and it showed esp as the game went on.

[featurethefullback]

why does K-State seem to have a greater problem with Covid than others? This was also the case in football.

[JOKKO]

why does K-State seem to have a greater problem with Covid than others? This was also the case in football.

This gets me too...Northwestern's football team did not have a single positive during the year. That's a whole football team.

ISU's football team had very few Covid cases too. The discipline explains both of those teams having such good seasons.

[ToledoCat#3]

Sometimes the only luck you have is bad luck. ;)

[xtrawildcat]

why does K-State seem to have a greater problem with Covid than others? This was also the case in football.

1, K State has so many players out with injuries, only a few Covid isolations create a problem. OSU had two players out with Covid when we played them but had had little to no impact on them.
2. Baylor and West Virginia game is cancelled tonight. Baylor has already been shut down early in the season. Had to cancel the Gonzaga game.

3. Weber allowed all the players to go home at Christmas and the may be a contributor in my opinion. Still the right decision but was a risk due to Covid.

IMO, this is a good thing for Kansas State. If we miss a couple of games now, when we come back we might have Kabsuke, AG and Kaosi ready to play.
I want to see what this team looks like with closer to a full roster after they get a couple of games to get some rust out. This circumstance gives me a better chance of seeing this happen before the season is over.

[featurethefullback]

My thought is that the students are home. That crutch is gone. I think that this shows lack of discipline in Football and Basketball. Whether the delay is good or bad really doesn't matter. We aren't going anywhere anyway. I just wonder why we can't control this problem. Is it the training table? Was it Christmas (noting that football does not have that excuse)? I don't chalk this up to bad luck.

[Ozarkcat]

why does K-State seem to have a greater problem with Covid than others? This was also the case in football.

I posted this on the football forum last month (the origins of this statement don't come from me, but from a few others much more "in the know" than I am).......K-State is one of the few schools following the contact tracing protocol "to the letter", while others seem to skirt the issue. No one will ever convince me that Iowa State's football team truly had no covid issues (as Campbell stated) before the Cats played them. I would expect the same in basketball.

WVU had one positive case and their game gets postponed, yet KSU has to play (OSU) with only six scholarship players???

[ChemEngCat]

I wouldn't say that K-State has a greater problem with COVID than others. I always thought that we went ahead an played games when we were very short handed when others canceled or postponed games. We didn't cancel in football but KU, OU, Baylor, Texas, WV, TCU all did (maybe others). Didn't Baylor cancel a number of their non-conference basketball games as well? I think lots of programs have struggled but I think we chose to play very short handed where others didn't. May be way off base here.