ClubSocial: 2020-03-08

Victorian Premier will urge Prime Minister on Sunday to restrict travel from United States, as he warns people of more disruptions to come.

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Italy may abandon over-80s to their fate as crisis grows

The plans lay out in cold detail which patients receive treatment in intensive care and which do not if there are insufficient spaces.

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Highlanders the first Kiwi athletes to undergo self-isolation

The decision to cancel the Highlanders' clash with the Jaguares came too late for the Dunedin-based side.

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Rudy Gobert pledges more than $800,000 to coronavirus relief effort

Rudy Gobert is donating more than $A800,000 to support both the employee relief fund at the Utah Jazz's home arena and COVID-19-related social services relief in Utah, Oklahoma City and the French health care system

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Bennett prepared to keep easing Mitchell into Souths' No.1 jersey

Latrell Mitchell played just 56 minutes in South Sydney's win over Cronulla in a pre-devised plan by coach Wayne Bennett.

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BBC NEWS : Coronavirus: Supermarkets ask shoppers to be 'considerate' and stop panic buying

Some UK retailers have started rationing products such as pasta and hand gels to stop them selling out.

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Philippines education chief working from home, due to self-isolation

MANILA, Philippines - Education Secretary Leonor Magtolis Briones is continuing to discharge her functions despite having to work from home during her self-isolation period.

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'It's for me long term': Walker makes Manly No.6 move permanent

Despite winning a title at centre and making his Roo debut at centre, Dylan Walker is an out-and-out five-eighth and ready to become DCE's long-term partner.

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Cowboys skipper wants NRL to follow NBA's lead and postpone season

Michael Morgan isn't sure why the NRL has decided to play games behind closed doors, instead of temporarily shutting down the season.

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AFL season preview: Giants to challenge, long season ahead for Swans

We run the rule over the Swans' and the Giants' prospects for 2020.

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Australians in Colorado refuse test for virus despite confirmed cases

A group of 24 mates was skiing together. Ten have tested positive for COVID-19.

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400 homes without power as residents sleep through raging bushfire in Perth's south-east

The current bushfire alert for residents is still active, and emergency services has advised the fire has been contained and controlled.

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Australians in Colorado refuse test for virus despite confirmed cases

A group of 24 mates was skiing together. Ten have tested positive for COVID-19.

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New on Sports Illustrated: Sports Aren’t Just an Escape For Everyone

Sports can absolutely be a distraction, but what we’re seeing in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic is how that’s a double-edged sword.

The sports world has come to a halt. The NBA season has been suspended. The NHL season has been suspended. MLS season has been suspended. MLB opening day has been delayed. The NCAA men’s and women’s basketball tournaments have been canceled. All are the result of the uncertainty surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic, which is forcing most if not all mass gatherings to be put on hold as the federal government rather incompetently tries to get a hold on this disease.

If you’re following this story as a sports fan, at some point you’ve probably yearned for normalcy. It makes sense. The pandemic is scary. It’s unclear what you should do or how worried you should be, and there would probably be some comfort in being able to watch your favorite team or player perform for a couple hours, if only to forget how bad everything else in the world is. “Sports is an escape” is a common refrain you’ll hear from many writers, and now some people feel lost without them at a time when they’re desperate for some kind of unifying force.

Sports can absolutely be a distraction, but what we’re seeing in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic is how that’s a double-edged sword. While sports may help you forget about the White House’s inability to secure proper testing for most Americans, how leagues, teams, and owners handle the fallout of their season suspensions is hugely important to the welfare of many. If you need something to focus on without any games to watch, consider that what many of us merely consume as entertainment is the livelihood for countless people who are at a high risk in these uncertain times.

Let’s start with the NBA. Ethan Strauss detailed this well at The Athletic today, but the league absolutely put thousands of people at risk by continuing to hold games this week. I have sympathy for the logistical concerns of an enterprise like the NBA simply deciding one night to suspend its season. It’s not an easy decision.

At the same time, once the league began distancing media from players and preventing locker room access, it was obvious that some level of coronavirus fears had permeated the NBA. Rudy Gobert alone could have potentially spread the disease to thousands. How many people has he come in contact with? How many people has Donovan Mitchell—apparently infected by Gobert—come in contact with? How many people have had contact with Gobert or Mitchell at an NBA arena and then gone on to hug their family members, or ride a bus, or go to a coffee shop?

You don’t need to even be a pandemic expert to understand that once coronavirus became prevalent in major cities like Los Angeles, San Francisco, or New York, holding events with 20,000 people in one place probably should have been avoided, and yet the NBA played a few more games anyway. (Not to mention the league wanted to go ahead with the Pelicans-Kings game Wednesday night until someone in the arena realized shortly before tipoff that referee Courtney Kirkland had just officiated a Jazz game.)

The NBA absolutely deserves more scrutiny for why it decided to suspend the season when it did, what advice it received from disease experts in the days leading up to the suspension, and how many thousands of people it potentially unnecessarily put at risk. If the NBA continued playing games at packed arenas to squeeze a few more dollars out of the season and put thousands at risk, the league is far from innocent.

There’s also the situation in Oklahoma City, in which Oklahoma health officials quickly administered 58 coronavirus tests to Jazz players and staff after Gobert was found to have the disease. On the surface, this is good! In an ideal world, in a situation where someone is at a high risk of exposing others, being able to sequester people who’ve possibly been exposed to the disease and testing them quickly is what should happen. Coronavirus testing should absolutely widely available and quickly administered to high-risk groups.

But it’s not.

The 58 tests administered to Jazz players and staff Wednesday represented 60 percent of Oklahoma’s peak daily capacity, according to The Daily Beast. There are high-risk Americans with COVID-19 symptoms right now who aren’t able to be tested because of the lack of kits around the country. The federal government has no handle on this disease or the actual number of carriers because of the lack of testing. The fact that a sports team was able to receive tests so quickly is a major story, and one that people in charge absolutely have to answer for. Oklahoma health officials obviously had a tough decision to make that night, and they almost certainly made the right one to get a sense of how many people could be at risk, but the structural inequality in who receives tests in a timely manner is staggering. People in Oklahoma who are ill and struggling to be tested have every right to be furious at how easy it was for the Jazz.

There is also the issue of non-salaried arena workers. Their plight is perhaps a microcosm of the greater economic troubles caused by this pandemic. Part-time staffers who work NBA games or people who rely on NBA games for their income are at the mercy of the league and its owners right now. While self-quarantining is ultimately a good strategy and making people avoid public gatherings can help slow the spread of the disease, it affects businesses like restaurants and others who rely on the basic act of people going out and doing things for their income.

So far, only a few teams have pledged to continue compensating the workers who will be most affected by the season suspension. The Hawks, Nets, Pistons, Mavericks, Wizards, Cavaliers, Heat, and Rockets are among those who will reportedly put a program in place for non-salaried employees, though details on many of those plans are vague. Even if the NBA and its teams stand to lose millions of dollars from the season suspension, there‘s no reason for arena workers not to get paid. If they’re part time, they may already be struggling to find adequate healthcare. If they’ve been working in NBA arenas, they’re possibly at a relatively high risk of coronavirus exposure. The league and its incredibly rich owners absolutely have the means to pay these people, and a more formal plan needs to be put in place for them immediately.

Instead, we’re seeing teams individually handle their arena workers and it’s unclear what that really means for those who can’t work. The fact that some players have stepped up before their owners is absolutely shameful. Good for Kevin Love, Giannis Antetokounmpo, and Blake Griffin for donating money. But it shouldn’t be needed. Zion Williamson, a 19-year-old in his first year in the NBA, pledging to pay the salaries of Pelicans arena workers before Gayle Benson—who is worth over $3.1 billion—is abhorrent.

How many owners demanded public funding for their arenas? Marc Lasry and Wes Edens, the multibillionaire owners of the Bucks, received $250 million in taxpayer money for the Fiserv Forum. Before Lasry and Edens stated any kind of compensation plan for their out-of-work hourly employees, Antetokounmpo pledged $100,000 for them. Instead of then ensuring those workers would be paid, the Bucks merely announced they would match player donations as opposed to taking on the responsibility themselves.

For the people who have lost their jobs as a result of season suspensions and are unsure if billionaires will fulfill their next paycheck, sports are not an escape. For the restaurants and bars who rely on foot traffic after NBA games for business, sports are not an escape. For the sick people in Oklahoma City with symptoms of coronavirus who saw state health officials rush to test every member of the Jazz, sports are not an escape.

You may be missing the games right now, and I understand. Nobody wants yet another thing to worry about. But losing sports means so much more than losing a few hours of entertainment every night. The coronavirus is helping to lay bare the motivations of our institutions and business leaders, and for the most part, the results haven’t been particularly flattering.

I can’t stress how many times I’ve heard team employees talk about how much their communities mean to them. General managers will tell you how important it is to have a relationship with their city manager or mayor. PR reps will tell you how the identity of the team neatly matches the identity of the city they play in. How many NBA teams try so blatantly to appeal to blue-collar works and the people who grind in their city?

Well, it’s those people who are in the most need of support during a public health scare like this one. As long as our government flops in the face of crisis, we should demand more from our institutions to help those in need, particularly those who exploit their communities for financial support when it’s convenient for them.

You may be wondering what to watch without sports. I suggest keeping an eye on how your favorite NBA, MLS, MLB, or NCAA team is handling the fallout of coronavirus suspensions. Eventually, the games will return, and you will be allowed to have fun again. But while fans may look to their favorite teams as a distraction from what’s going on in the world right now, countless others can’t escape the severe consequences of what this pandemic means.

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New on Sports Illustrated: Police: Rhode Island Child Tests Positive for COVID-19 Days After Receiving Jazz Player Autograph

The child was at an NBA game in Boston last week in which the Jazz played the Celtics.

A Rhode Island child tested positive for COVID-19 after receiving an autograph last week from a Utah Jazz player who also contracted coronavirus, the Westerly, R.I. police chief announced Friday, per the Providence Journal.

Shawn Lacey, the town's police chief, said that the child was at an NBA game in Boston last week in which the Jazz played the Celtics. Lacey did not specify which Jazz player gave out the autograph.

Both Rudy Gobert and Donovan Mitchell have tested positive for COVID-19, the lone two NBA players that have been announced to have tested positive.

Gobert tested positive on Wednesday; Mitchell, on Thursday.

ESPN's Brian Windhorst reported Wednesday that the Celtics are among the multiple NBA teams that are self-quarantining. The New York Knicks, Detroit Pistons and the Toronto Raptors, all of whom played the Jazz in the last 12 days, are also self-isolating.

On Wednesday night, the NBA suspended play until further notice. The NBA will delay games for at least 30 days, Adam Silver confirmed on Thursday.

According to The Athletic's Shams Charania, the NBA has informed all of its teams of a number policies effective immediately, through March 16:

All players must remain in market of team
Players remain home as long as possible
No group workouts or practices
Team physicians and trainers speak to each player once a day

In the sports world, numerous leagues have postponed their season or suspended operations, following the NBA's lead. The 2020 men's and women's NCAA basketball tournaments were also canceled on Thursday.

As of Friday afternoon, there are more than 142,000 confirmed cases of the virus, which the WHO has classified as a pandemic. In the U.S., at least 1,875 people have been diagnosed with COVID-19, causing at least 41 deaths. Rhode Island has 14 confirmed cases, according to Gov. Gina Raimondo.

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Coronavirus and COVID-19: your questions answered by virus experts

What do you need to know about COVID-19 and coronavirus? We asked our readers for their top questions and sought answers from two of Australia's leading virus and vaccine experts.

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Coronavirus shouldn't diminish security concerns: Payne

Foreign Minister Marise Payne has told US secretary of state Mike Pompeo the coronavirus should not diminish the other priorities facing the two nations.

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Are female urinals the answer to queues at the loos?

Clever designs are trying to to tackle queues for female loos, but will the innovations catch on?

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Coronavirus: How to safely clean your smartphone

Here's how to effectively clean your device using household soap and water.

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New on Sports Illustrated: Inside the Chaotic Decision to Cancel the Big East Tournament

The Big East played a half of basketball before canceling the rest of its conference tournament due to coronavirus. Here's what went into the decision.

NEW YORK — Conor Crean saw the alerts coming in hot on his phone. The St. John’s senior saxophone player admits band members aren’t supposed to look at their phones during games, but he couldn’t avoid the incessant notifications.

Just before noon Eastern Time on Thursday, conference after conference began abruptly cancelling its respective basketball tournaments. The SEC, the Big Ten, the Big 12—everyone, it seemed, across the country was doing it. Everyone except the Big East, whose quarterfinal matchup between St. John’s and Creighton at Madison Square Garden was still inexplicably underway on FS1 as the news started breaking.

“We just continued jamming,” says Crean. But in the back of his mind he knew it was only a matter of time before they would also be told to go home.

At halftime, they were. The Big East eventually fell in line with its league peers and threw in the towel, calling the tournament with one more half to play. A few hours later, the NCAA made the unprecedented and historic decision to cancel next week’s men’s and women’s tournaments, in addition to all remaining winter and spring championships due to the coronavirus outbreak.

“I’ll never forget this,” Crean says. “I’m a senior. This is my last game. We were nervous coming into the game. A bunch of [band members] didn’t come because of the coronavirus. They were afraid. Then to be here at the tournament when they cancelled it is something you’re never going to see again.”

As word trickled around the arena, fans looked at each other like “Now what?” The Garden PA system blared Frank Sinatra’s ‘New York, New York,” followed by the Billy Joel classic, ‘New York State of Mind.’ Young students and older fans alike took selfies with the scoreboard while MSG officials tried to escort them out quickly. Arena workers, wearing gloves, piled up chairs and wiped down press conference microphones with Lysol wipes. As everyone filed out onto Seventh Avenue, figuring out where to go, New Yorkers walked by wearing masks over their faces.

“This is a crusher,” says John Paquette, who was attending his 30th Big East tournament as the league’s head of media relations.

The Big East was criticized for playing a half of basketball on Thursday instead of cancelling earlier in the day, especially since the Atlantic 10 made the call to cancel its tournament minutes before tipoff in Brooklyn at Barclays Center. Big East Commissioner Val Ackerman told reporters that she found out about the various tournament cancellations in real time following a previously scheduled meeting at 10 a.m., which included university presidents, athletic directors and an executive NCAA member. After the meeting, Ackerman saw news trickling out that league tournaments were getting cancelled from coast to coast. Before pulling the plug at MSG, however, she made some calls, conferring with a contact she had recently made in the Office of Emergency Management with the City of New York.

Without going into too much detail, Ackerman said she was told that New York City was planning to bring directives related to large gatherings as other cities and states have already done due to the COVID-19 outbreak. Once she obtained that information, St. Johns and Creighton had already tipped off. Instead of stopping play mid-half, she quickly mobilized a conference call with league presidents and athletic directors and made the decision to cancel the rest of the tournament beginning at halftime.

“It was our view that we didn’t feel like we needed a dramatic, pull-the-players-off-the-court-in-the-middle-of-the-game gesture,” Ackerman said. “We just literally didn’t think that another 15 or 20 minutes of game time was going to make that much a difference.”

At a news briefing Thursday evening, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced the state is banning gatherings of at least 500 people. Events at facilities that hold fewer than 500 people will have to reduce their capacities by half. Currently, New York has the second-most confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the country, according to the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Cuomo sent the National Guard to New Rochelle, N.Y., about 17 miles north of Manhattan, to help with the nation’s biggest cluster of coronavirus cases.

While players from both teams were unavailable for comment after likely playing their last half of basketball this year, Creighton coach Greg McDermott spoke to a handful of reporters in a small room on the third floor of the Stewart Hotel across the street from the Garden. McDermott acknowledged he was “a little surprised we started the game” since there was some discussion of cancelling before tip. One of his kids even mouthed to him from his seat that the Big Ten and SEC had called it. Big East associate commissioner Stu Jackson delivered the official news to McDermott in the locker room at halftime.

“I would have felt better if they’d have pulled [the game] when we were up 24-17,” McDermott said, trying to keep the mood light. “Those are tough, hard decisions to make. I respect the way they handled it and am confident that they got all information they needed [to do so].”

It doesn’t matter now, but the latest bracketology had Creighton as a No. 2 seed in the NCAA tournament after winning the Big East regular season title. The Blue Jays were projected to win their conference tournament as the top overall seed, but St. John's fans are claiming the win.

“The score at halftime was 38-35, St. John's so that means St. John's won,” says junior trumpet player Kendall Pierre. “I’m going to let the record know that right now.”

Before the conference and NCAA tournaments were officially canceled Thursday, the NCAA on Wednesday announced its men’s and women’s basketball tournaments would be played in front of only essential staff and families. Conferences followed suit. Big East officials limited schools to 200 tickets per institution. In order to even get into Madison Square Garden, names had to be checked off a list at the entrance. This forced fans to flock to nearby bars and hotels to drink and watch instead. And it meant that 11-year-old Griffin Cripe, a diehard Blue Jays fan from Omaha, wouldn’t be able to attend his first Big East Tournament at MSG.

“I was really bummed out,” says Cripe, who ended up watching the half with his parents and older brother at a bar instead. “We came all the way here to do a lot of stuff in New York, but we also came here for Creighton.”

K.J. Ross, who flew in from Charlotte, N.C. to watch his nephew, Creighton star Ty-Shon Alexander, play, described how strange it was to sit behind the team bench and see nobody in the stands across the court.

“It was like an 8 a.m. AAU game,” Ross says.

This certainly beats the 1993 New York City blizzard that nearly canceled the Big East championship game, Paquette says. They played in half-full arenas and it was nearly impossible to get in the city if you weren’t already there.

“There were limos outside of the Garden picking people up on Seventh Avenue,” Paquette says. “You could give the guy a $20 and go 10 blocks and get off. You’re sharing a ride with like 10 other random people. It was pretty bizarre.”

But definitely not as bizarre as what’s transpiring across the world now.

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New on Sports Illustrated: Low Risk, High Reward Wagers Have Professional Bettors Crying Foul

What will happen to bettors who bought NCAA Championship futures tickets before the NCAA Tournament was canceled due to the coronavirus?

The abrupt end to the NCAA basketball season, due to the COVID-19 (coronavirus), has left professional and recreational bettors in a lurch. Professional bettors treat futures wagering as a form of low risk, high reward investment opportunities. Many high stakes bettors, who wished to remain anonymous, are not very happy over the cancellation of the NCAA Tournament. These bettors placed futures wagers on specific teams months ago at long odds and now see those investments as worthless.

Many operators across the pond in the UK, as well as DraftKings and FanDuel here in the US, offer buy-out options on certain wagers. However, Vegas sportsbooks do not offer any such option to its patrons. Many of the sharp bettors I spoke with are looking for the Vegas sportsbooks to not just refund their wagers, but instead offer a buyout at a percentage of the perceived value of their tickets.

According to Jeff Sherman, SuperBook USA’s VP of Risk Management, his sportsbook will be refunding all bets on the 2020 college basketball national championship. Caesars Sportsbooks said it would “refund any associated wagers” for the cancelled NCAA Tournament, while adding “‘Futures’ wagers on the NBA, NHL and MLB will remain active until the professional leagues make a determination on how the seasons currently in suspension will conclude.”

FanDuel announced late Thursday that they would be refunding all futures wagers as well:

For instance, let's look at this bettor at the Four Queens. Back in November, this person bet that the Florida State Seminoles would win the NCAA Tournament at odds of 100-1. As of Thursday morning, nearly every shop around town was offering them at odds as low as 14/1 to as high as 22/1.

Tickets such as this one have professional bettors seeking some sort of return on their investment. The books have been holding onto their money for many months, in most cases, and the value of the ticket increased once the odds dropped on teams who exceeded the oddsmakers' expectations.

The bettors I spoke with equated futures betting markets to buying a stock at an IPO at $20 per share, seeing the stock grow to $20,000 per share, only to be told that they would be forced to sell back the stock at the original purchase price of $20.

In reality, these complaints will fall on deaf ears, as the most likely outcome will just be a refund of the original wager amount and no additional perceived value.

The claim of many of these bettors is that these teams did not even have to win the tournament in order to return money on the investment. Bettors proclaimed that once these teams—who would be heavily favored to win their opening round games—won, they would have tremendous hedge out value as the tournament progressed. For instance, a bettor who wagered on Florida State would have the opportunity to wager on FSU's opponent as the team advanced in order to lock in significant profit.

In addition, many bettors choose to buy and sell futures wagers on propswap.com. According to their website, they are approved in 14 states: Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, & West Virginia. It appears, per Patrick Everson of Covers.com, that as late as Wednesday night a buyer purchased a futures wager on the Butler Bulldogs:

According to their website, all sales are final:

This would leave the question, what will happen to the buyers who bought futures tickets and paid more than the original wager amount like this one? The buyer paid $1,775 for a ticket only worth $300 on a refund at the Sahara Sportsbook.

Propswap.com did not immediately respond to our request for comment.

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NEW YORK, New York - The escalating coronavirus emergency Thursday sent stocks to their worst losses since the Black Monday crash of 1987, extending a sell-off that has now wiped out most of Wall S

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New on Sports Illustrated: Well-matched Providence, Butler clash in Big East tournament

Butler closed out the regular season in fashion.

The No. 24 Bulldogs now look to add another memorable ending in the Big East Tournament. Butler, the No. 5 seed, opens the conference tourney against No. 4 seed Providence in the quarterfinals Thursday afternoon in New York City.

Senior guard Kamar Baldwin poured in a career-high 36 points, highlighted by draining a 3-pointer from the wing with 1.2 seconds left, to lift the Bulldogs to a 72-71 win at Xavier on Saturday night.

The Bulldogs (22-9) and Friars enter the tourney as two of the conference's hottest teams. Butler own a three-game winning streak, while the Friars (19-12) set a program record for most Big East wins in a season with 12 and won their final six games on the regular season -- including wins against three ranked teams.

"Heck of a win. Heck of a game," said Butler coach LaVall Jordan said following the Xavier victory. "I can't imagine what New York will be like with all the teams playing this well right now. We knew there would be a lot of energy in the building with their Senior Night. And we knew it would be a fight. I told them to keep battling. It came down to us having the ball last and No. 3 [Baldwin] hit a shot like he's done before."

The neutral-site game between the Bulldogs and Friars is an ideal way to decide the season series winner. Last season, Providence defeated the Bulldogs three times, but that streak ended in the first meeting between the two teams this season.

"It's win and advance or lose and go home," Providence coach Ed Cooley said, "so our guys will be playing with a sense of desperation, just as Butler will."

Baldwin and Jordan Tucker both scored 17 points in Butler's 70-58 road win over Providence on Jan. 10. At the time, the Bulldogs were 15-1 and had won all three of their conference games.

In their second meeting, the Friars avenged their loss to even up the season series with a 65-61 win in Indianapolis on Feb. 1. Luwane Pipkins scored 22 points off the bench, including hitting six free throws in the final 27 seconds, to seal the win. But the Bulldogs played without starting point guard Aaron Thompson and made just one of their 14 3-point attempts.

"We didn't shoot it well, but Providence had a lot to do with that. They made it really tough to get our guys open," Jordan said after the game. "We let Pipkins get loose for too many looks, and he made us pay. This is life in the Big East. You're across from a good team every night."

Baldwin, an All-Big East First-Team selection, enters the game averaging 16.2 points and 3.3 assists. Providence senior guard Alpha Diallo was a second-team honoree.

The Friars received some good news in Saturday's win over DePaul, when guard Maliek White returned to the floor after dealing with a foot injury. Cooley said the Bulldogs are a deeper squad with a healthy Thompson.

"They're a totally different team with Thompson," Cooley said. "When Kamar Baldwin is on the ball he's not as aggressive as he is off the ball. He's very dangerous and is allowed to roam free with Thompson."

--Field Level Media

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