Mike Rhoades says he can’t talk about specifics of the COVID-19 protocol, but
#VCU did everything that it was supposed to. Found out last night they could resume.
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Rhoades says Saturday was the only day
#VCU could not do anything. Extremely disappointed to have missed a game.
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Rhoades says Sunday was a scheduled off-day so they really only missed Saturday. Bummed that happened to be a game day.
VCU coach Mike Rhoades said the team missed all day Saturday and got word late last night that it got clearance to resume. He can't comment on whether it could've been a false positive. "Guys were bummed out ... but we are relieved and excited to get back on the court today."
Mike Rhoades took us through the last few days to start out today's media availability.
#VCU wasn't paused for long, but the team was bummed out to miss Saturday's game, obviously. Rhoades couldn't comment whether testing was false positive, thought it would appear so.
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VCU HC Mike Rhoades says the
@A10MBB is in charge of the schedule as to whether or not Saturday's game with
@DavidsonMBB can be made up. Also said having a short pause can be a good warning message about taking COVID protocols seriously, which they have
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Rhoades on NET rankings: "I don't think it matters on January 4th. The players know but I don't talk about it. What can we control? If you win the next one, your numbers get better" Rams are 31st in NET rankings, highest in the state
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On the question of a false positive: "I can't even talk about that, because of the protocol and our guidelines and all that stuff. What I did was I talked to our trainers, our administration and our doctors. And our doctors ran the show and took those steps there. ...
And we just followed that as a staff, which we've been doing since we got back June 5."