Virginia Tech declared Monday that its men’s basketball staff is in COVID-19 protocols, ensuing in the postponement of Wednesday’s game at North Carolina.

So much, Saturday’s dwelling activity with Pittsburgh remains on the agenda.

This is the initially time this time that the Hokies (8-5, -2 ACC) have had a recreation postponed or canceled.

The Tech gamers experienced returned to campus Sunday from their Xmas crack.

A Tech spokesman refused to say how several individuals in the software experienced analyzed positive for COVID-19. The spokesman also refused to say if Tech had paused all men’s basketball actions.

The Hokies very last played at Duke final Wednesday. Tech reserve Jalen Haynes did not make that journey. A Tech spokesman reported that evening that Haynes was unavailable but refused to say if it was because Hayes was in COVID-19 protocols. The spokesman stated Haynes’ absence was not for disciplinary or educational reasons.

Equally teams in that match now have COVID-19 troubles.

Duke introduced Monday that it was in COVID-19 protocols and would have to postpone its Wednesday activity at Clemson.

Because of a current transform in ACC coverage, Tech will not endure a forfeit league reduction mainly because of the North Carolina video game.

The league declared previous Wednesday that its athletic administrators had scrapped their forfeit coverage because of the rash of cancellations and postponements that have hit college basketball this thirty day period since of COVID-19. The ACC forfeit plan had been introduced in Oct. Less than the first policy, if a crew could not play on the initially scheduled date mainly because of COVID-19 problems, it would receive a forfeit league reduction and the opponent would get a forfeit league acquire.

Underneath the new policy, ACC video games that can’t be played will be…