The 2019-20 college basketball season ended with a dud when the COVID-19 pandemic, freshly sweeping across the United States, forced conference tournaments nationwide to be canceled and eventually the NCAA Tournament followed suit. Eight months later and the U.S. still sits in the midst of the pandemic as the 2020-21 college basketball season prepares to get underway. For many teams across the country, that season begins on Wednesday. And while there is optimism that come March, conference tournaments will be played and in April a national champion will be crowned, the road to get there is likely to be bumpy with some unexpected detours along the way. “We’re going to schedule 27 games, we’d love to be able to play 27 games, but I’m not necessarily optimistic that that’s going to happen,” Ohio State men’s basketball head coach Chris Holtmann said on Monday. “I think there’s going to be things…
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