NORMAL (WEEK) — With preseason exercises underway, COVID-19 has hit the school hardwood in Central Illinois. Illinois State head coach Dan Muller confirmed {that a} males’s basketball participant has examined optimistic with 7 extra gamers in isolation.
With the 8 gamers sidelined together with one other for unrelated causes, the Redbirds solely have 7 gamers at the moment working towards and taking part in exercises. Proper now, Muller needs to concentrate on rolling with the punches however says the information hit the workforce onerous.
“It was robust. After we instructed them, all of them seemed like they misplaced their canine, you understand once you discover out half your workforce is gonna be out for 2 week,” mentioned Muller. “We’re gonna be behind the place we’d have been on the twenty fifth which is our first sport, however we will not do something about it.”
ISU is scheduled to play in a multi-team occasion in Nebraska in late November that options faculties corresponding to LSU, Northern Iowa, and Oklahoma State.
Muller is assured that the workforce will take the courtroom however is weary in regards to the conditioning stage of the 8 quarantined gamers as soon as they return.
