UConn women’s basketball pauses after positive COVID-19 test, first four games wiped out amid 14-day quarantine
UConn women’s basketball has temporarily suspended team activities after a member of the program tested positive for COVID-19, the program announced Monday night.
As a result, all players, coaches and other close-contact personnel will under go a quarantine period of at least 14 days, the school said, meaning that the team will not compete in its first four previously scheduled games. Those games included two in the Women’s Hall of Fame Challenge this weekend at Mohegan Sun Arena, a Dec. 4 contest in Uncasville against Louisville and its conference opener Dec. 6 at Seton Hall.
The news comes less than a week after the men’s basketball team resumed team activities following a COVID-19 case in their own program.
Though the program said any schedule adjustments will be announced at a later date, the team’s schedule online listed the Quinnipiac, Mississippi State/Maine and Louisville games as canceled and the Seton Hall game as postponed. Seton Hall is currently undergoing its own temporary pause of basketball activities and is set to open its season Dec. 4.
Depending on when the team returns to the court and what happens to the Seton Hall game, the Huskies’ season opener could end up being Dec. 15 at home against Butler, its next scheduled matchup.
The school announced Monday there were five new on-campus COVID-19 cases among residential students, as well as seven new employee cases, over the last three days. Students left campus last week for Thanksgiving break and won’t be returning to Storrs until mid-January.
Alexa Philippou can be reached at aphilippou@courant.com.
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