{"id":4429,"date":"2021-05-23T00:09:03","date_gmt":"2021-05-23T04:09:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sullyonsports.com\/?p=4429"},"modified":"2021-05-23T00:09:03","modified_gmt":"2021-05-23T04:09:03","slug":"mens-basketball-on-pause-again-after-positive-covid-19-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sullyonsports.com\/?p=4429","title":{"rendered":"Men\u2019s Basketball on Pause Again After Positive COVID-19 Test"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/thefordhamram.com\/78302\/sports\/mens-basketball-on-pause-again-after-positive-covid-19-test\/\">NOTE: This article originally appeared in The Fordham Ram in November 2020.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Fordham men\u2019s basketball team has paused activities after a member of its Tier 1 personnel&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncaa.org\/sport-science-institute\/faq-principles-resocialization-collegiate-basketball-and-testing-considerations-all-sports\">(student-athletes, coaches, staff)<\/a>&nbsp;tested positive for COVID-19, according to a release from the school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 14-day pause began on Nov. 26, and the team hopes to be out of quarantine by Dec. 12. With the positive test, the Rams\u2019 Dec. 8 game against St. John\u2019s, which was supposed to be the team\u2019s season opener after its first two games were canceled due to positive tests in the Iona and Manhattan programs, has also been canceled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the second positive COVID-19 test on the men\u2019s basketball team in the past month. The team went on pause on Oct. 31 after a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thefordhamram.com\/77840\/sports\/member-of-mens-basketball-program-tests-positive-for-covid-19\/\">positive test<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As of now, the team\u2019s new season opener against Maine is scheduled to be played on Dec. 12. Maine has also paused workouts after a member of its program tested positive for COVID-19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NOTE: This article originally appeared in The Fordham Ram in November 2020. The Fordham men\u2019s basketball team has paused activities after a member of its Tier 1 personnel&nbsp;(student-athletes, coaches, staff)&nbsp;tested positive for COVID-19, according to a release from the school. The 14-day pause began on Nov. 26, and the team hopes to be out of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sullyonsports.com\/?p=4429\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Men\u2019s Basketball on Pause Again After Positive COVID-19 Test&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4415,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[681],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sullyonsports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sullyonsports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sullyonsports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sullyonsports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sullyonsports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4429"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sullyonsports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4430,"href":"https:\/\/sullyonsports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4429\/revisions\/4430"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sullyonsports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sullyonsports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sullyonsports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sullyonsports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}