UConn’s Auriemma has COVID-19

UConn women’s basketball coach Geno Auriemma tested positive for COVID and will miss at least one NCAA tournament game, the school said Monday. The women’s tournament field and schedule was set to be announced hours after the news broke.

Auriemma will miss at least the first round and possibly the second depending on where the Huskies land in the bracket.

In a statement, Auriemma and the school said that the coach tested positive two days after receiving his second dose of a vaccine. The statement referenced the fact that the CDC considers people fully vaccinated two weeks after their second dose.

The Huskies are, as usual, the best team in the country.

UConn said Auriemma tested positive on Sunday and had not had contact with any players since Friday, leaving the full team eligible for the tournament.

“This revelation is a reminder that, while there is a light at the end of the tunnel, we are not on the other side of this pandemic yet,” Auriemma said in a statement. “The full effect of vaccines does not occur until 14 days after our last vaccine dose, and for those of us getting twodose vaccine, that means we’re not in the clear after just one-dose.”

Dennis Young

NEW BC HOOPS COACH

Boston College hired Earl Grant as its basketball coach, bringing in the man who led the College of Charleston to the NCAA Tournament in the hopes he can do the same for the Eagles.

Grant, who had a 127-89 record in seven seasons with the Cougars, replaces Jim Christian, who was fired with three weeks remaining in his seventh season. BC hasn’t been to the NCAA Tournament since 2009.

INDIANA FIRES MILLER

Miller’s $10.3 million buyout was one of college basketball’s priciest.

Indiana athletic director Scott Dolson decided keeping Miller would prove even more costly.

Dolson fired Miller on Monday, armed with enough cash from private donations to cover the buyout and ready to answer a fan base angered by four straight mediocre seasons.

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LEITAO OUT AT DEPAUL

DePaul fired coach Dave Leitao six years into his second tenure in another effort to lift a once-proud program.

The Blue Demons went 5-14 overall in a season that started about a month late because of COVID-19 issues. They finished last in the Big

East for the fifth straight year at 2-13.

NO PROOF

The NBA said an investigation into whether Utah Jazz player Elijah Millsap had a bigoted remark directed at him during an end-ofseason interview six years ago has ended and was unable to find proof that the statement was made.

Millsap alleged last month that Dennis Lindsey, then the team’s general manager and now its executive vide president, said “if u say one more word, I’ll cut your Black ass and send you back to Louisiana” during that April 2015 meeting.

Lindsey denied saying that, and the NBA’s review — done by the league and with independent counsel — could not prove otherwise. Jazz coach Quin Snyder, who has said he was in the meeting. had no recollection of Lindsey using those words.

MORE TIGER FANS

Michigan appears poised to amend a 1,000-patron limit so more Detroit Tigers fans can attend home games on Opening Day and after.

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s office said Monday that the state health department has had talks with the team “to find a safe path forward to expand capacity limits at the stadium. There’s nothing more exciting than fans rooting for the Tigers at a home game, and we look forward to making that happen very soon.”