MACC Coaches Explain COVID-19’s Impact on Offseason

Not only did the pandemic make for an abrupt end of the basketball season, but it has also forced players and coaches to change their offseason routines. Moberly Lady Greyhounds coach Hana Haden…

Haden says she’s talked to her players on Zoom about not allowing the pandemic to let them be lazy during the summer. Men’s coach Pat Smith says he hopes when players return to campus, it will be business as usual.

Many of the amateur tournaments that coaches usually scout in the late spring and early summer have been canceled this year. Nike announced last week it was canceling the entire Elite Youth Basketball League season.