Benches, basketballs and shared-use areas will be sanitized at the start of each day and after gamesGetty Images
The Big West Conference men's and women's basketball tournaments, played in Anaheim every year since '01 and at Honda Center since '11, "will be played in Las Vegas this March," according to Jim Alexander of the ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER. The conference said that the tournaments "will take place at the Mandalay Bay Events Center on March 9-13, in a bubble environment that will include daily COVID-19 screening and testing and will enable participants to walk from the hotel to the arena without outside contact." Additional safety protocols for the tournament include "dedicated meeting room space for each team, as well as sanitization of shared spaces such as on-site practice facilities, locker rooms, staff rooms, training areas and scorer’s table surfaces between each use." Team benches "will be split into three appropriately distanced rows." Benches, basketballs and shared-use areas, such as media tables, "will be sanitized at the start of each day and immediately upon the completion of each game." There is a "possibility of 'allowing limited crowds' for the tournament games, but determinations on attendance limits, spectator health and safety protocols, and ticket pricing 'will be made in the near future'" (ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER, 12/24).
