Mulkey positive for COVID, UConn-Baylor game off
No. 6 Baylor canceled its anticipated home game Thursday night against No. 3 UConn after Lady Bears coach Kim Mulkey tested positive for COVID-19.
Baylor said it began restricting team activities after Mulkey tested positive on Monday, the same day she had been planning to rejoin the team.
The 58-year-old Mulkey missed Baylor’s win Saturday at TCU because of contact tracing after being exposed on Christmas Day to a family member who tested positive.
“I immediately self-quarantined and did not re-join the team when our staff and players came back from our holiday break,” Mulkey said in a statement Tuesday. “I produced three negative tests leading up to our game at TCU (on Saturday). However, I decided that it was important to continue quarantining in case the virus took time to come to fruition.”
Mulkey now hopes to rejoin the program Jan. 15, if she shows no symptoms.
Kansas State, another Big 12 program, said it also has paused team activities following COVID-19 test results and contract tracing procedures,.
UConn (6-0) is now scheduled to play at home Saturday against Providence in a Big East game when Huskies coach Geno Auriemma goes for his 1,098th win. That would tie him with the late Pat Summitt for second on the career list.. Stanford coach Tara VanDerveer set the record this season and now has 1,103.
Auriemma said he is open to rescheduling games, or finding another nonconference game.
“You could say that it’s canceled and then all of the sudden you wake up one day and you see a game that Baylor had in the middle of the week is gone and a game that we had in the middle of the week is gone and you’re on the phone going, ‘Hey, remember that game? Could we do it. Yeah, let’s do it. Boom. It’s back on,” he said. “I don’t think anything is on for sure and I don’t think anything is off for sure.”
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