The roller-coaster ride was dizzying. It was six months and a week ago, on March 12, that SEC commissioner Greg Sankey made the stunning announcement that, because of a rapidly spreading and little understood virus that had become a pandemic, the SEC men’s and women’s basketball tournaments had been canceled. News stories quoted anonymous sources that were often wrong. Auburn Baseball/Other AU Sports Forum. Almost all of them either had no symptoms or recovered. cool topic. The Auburn Tigers latest football and basketball news, stats, schedules, football and basketball recruiting. You can see that the area under the curve gets smaller both as the rating for a commit decreases and as the number of total commits for a school increases. Crowds will be miniscule, the normally festive gameday atmosphere missing. Coaches didn’t like it. It’s going to be very strange. Wiltfong's Whiparound: The race for No. 11 talking about this. Speculation was rampant. Players had to learn how to use Zoom for their classes, for their meetings, for almost all of their contact with their coaches or teammates. But barring some sort of cataclysmic happening, Auburn and Kentucky will kick off at 11 a.m. next Saturday on the SEC Network. They were greeted by all sorts of unheard of requirements – COVID-19 tests, face coverings, social distancing, contact tracing, quarantines. AuburnUndercover features complete inside coverage of Auburn TIger football, basketball and recruiting. Auburn Undercover Sep 19, 2:08 AM . They didn’t like it. The y-axis in this graph represents the percentage weight of the score that gets applied to an overall team ranking. The Pac-12 changed its mind. For now, it’s almost time to play. The SEC, Big 12 and ACC pushed on, along with some Group of 5 conferences. warm topic. Players from programs across rose up with #WeWantToPlay movement. Finally, it was decided that players could return to campuses for voluntary workouts in early June. The Auburn Tigers latest football and basketball news, stats, schedules, football and basketball recruiting. Below is a graphical representation of how our formula works. Players who had not tested positive found themselves quarantined for two weeks because they were around someone who had. Most weren’t sick. Auburn’s football team had an outbreak over the summer, put down by a heartfelt Zoom meeting among teammates. That became especially true for football, the sport that pays for everything else in high-level programs. © 2005-2020 CBS INTERACTIVE ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Powered by 247Sports. Thus began one of more difficult and bizarre times in the history of college athletics. And the craziness continued. Auburn head coach Gus Malzahn led his players in participating in a march in Auburn. Auburn’s football team had an outbreak over the summer, put down by a heartfelt Zoom meeting among teammates. Later the same day, the NCAA Tournament was canceled. CBS Sports is a registered trademark of CBS Broadcasting Inc. SEC Whispers & Intel As Season Approaches 9/15... All-New 24/7 Sports News Network: Stream Now! Soon, spring football practices were canceled, too. They still don’t, but it’s not going away. There’ll be no tailgaters, no band or cheerleaders on the field, no eagle flying.