Due to Covid-19 and the chaos that ensues in the 2020 college football season, there will be fewer bowl matches than usual to close the season. Since all teams are eligible for bowls regardless of record, prestige or health, we can expect a lot from the usual match to move around a bit.

There are currently bowl projections for 2-7 South Carolina going into bowl games, which means we see a team that doesn’t have any business playing in the postseason likely to take their place deserved. Power Five schools that want extra practice time or income to take up as much available space as they want, regardless of the usual bowl contracts and conference affiliations.

But here’s what we know so far about college football bowl season in 2020:

The bowl game was canceled in 2020

Redbox Bowl (Santa Clara, CA)
Bahamas Bowl (Nassau, Bahamas)
Hawaii Bowl (Honolulu, HI)
Holiday Bowl (San Diego, CA)
Quick Lane Bowl (Detroit, MI)
Pinstripe Bowl (Bronx, NY)
Sun Bowl (El Paso, TX)

The rest of the bowl games in 2020

LUBBOCK, Texas (November 30, 2020) – The Lone Star Conference releases its 2020-21 women’s basketball schedule on November 23, which is 20 of Lubbock Christian University’s scheduled 22 matches, and has a December 11 LCU tipping-off inside the Rip Griffin Center against St. Petersburg. Mary’s. Monday, the LCU finished part of their schedule with the addition of non-conference matches and the announcement of home fixtures.

Recently, East New Mexico and Western New Mexico both opted out of the 2020-21 basketball schedule due to state New Mexico health guidelines related to COVID-19. Western New Mexico will play the LCU twice at the Rip Griffin Center (11-12 February), and the two matches will be the LCU’s only non-conference contest.

The updated schedule features regular season matches starting on Friday, December 11 with a crossover contest, while division play begins in January 2021 following the NCAA Division II Winter Break.

This year, 15 men’s and 15 women’s teams will compete in three divisions (North, South and West), each consisting of five institutions. Each team is scheduled to play 20 conference matches with division and crossover competitions throughout the year. During weeks in which a team plays against a division, each institution will have one game at home and one away. When a team faces an opponent from outside its division, both crossover games will be played at the same site on consecutive days.

The modified “bubble” schedule format increases student-athlete safety regarding COVID-19 and reduces the number of contacts between teams by playing the same opponent twice a week.

The conference tournament will consist of the top eight men’s and women’s teams, with first-round matches on campus on Tuesday, March 2, followed by the four winning teams progressing to last place in the remaining top seeds on Friday, March 5 and Saturday, March 6. .

LCU is located in the Western Division, which has Angelo State, Midwestern State, UT Permian Basin and West Texas A&M joining Lady Chaps. The LCU first division matches are scheduled for January 14, 2021 at Angelo State.

The LCU’s COVID-19 regulations will make the Rip Griffin Center a 50% capacity. Season admission holders will be notified of their seat placement prior to the first home match. Student-athletes will receive their pass list (as usual), and an allotment of 100 tickets per match will be available to general LCU students. All home match tickets and spectator policies are subject to change for each match. For games that allow fans, 300 tickets will be available (admission includes men’s and women’s games on these dates) for the general public on www.lcuchaps.com/tickets.

The Lone Star Conference also announced details of a new hybrid pricing model for the LSC Digital Network starting with winter and spring 2020-21. Men’s and women’s volleyball broadcast as well as basketball games will be available via pay-per-view (PPV) conferencing under the new model. Fans can purchase a daily ticket for $ 10 which will give them access to all of the LSC football, volleyball and basketball contests on the network that day, as well as access to previously broadcast games from the current season for 24 hours. In addition to the live and archived options, viewers will have the option to purchase and download games from the 2020-21 season for $ 10 each.Certain games from all other sports brought on the LSC Digital Network will be available free-to-view (FTV) or PPV at the discretion of the broadcasting institution. The LSC Digital Network is in its second year featuring academic and athletic events of the league and its 18 member institutions. Fans can watch games and buy tickets online at www.lonestarconferencenetwork.com on computers and mobile devices. Viewers can also watch games on the LSC Digital Network via the OTT app available on Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV, Android TV, and Roku by searching for “LSC Digital Network”.

GAME 2 | HARTFORD HAWKS (0-1) vs. VILLANOVA WILDCATS (2-1)

DATE | TIME: Tuesday, December 1 | 5:00 p.m.
LOCATION: Mohegan Sun Arena (Uncasville, Conn.)
SCOPE: Live Statistics | ESPN2
INDONESIA: @HartfordMBB | #FlyHigh | #AEHoops
GAME NOTES: Hartford | Villanova

GAME 3 | HARTFORD HAWKS at FAIRFIELD STAGS (0-1)

DATE | TIME: Wednesday, December 2 | 7:00 p.m.
LOCATION: George Bisacca Court at Alumni Hall (Fairfield, Conn.)
SCOPE: Live Statistics | ESPN3
INDONESIA: @HartfordMBB | #FlyHigh | #AEHoops
GAME NOTES: Hartford | Fairfield

UNCASVILLE, Conn. – The Hartford men’s basketball team continues its unusual 2020-21 non-conference record with consecutive matches on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. The Hawks kick off the stretch by joining #Bubbleville to take on Villanova # 3/12 at 5pm on ESPN2, before they head to enemy state Fairfield for a 7pm tilt on Wednesday.

BACK-TO-BACK

• The unconventional nature of the 2020-21 campaign due to the COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in an additional Tuesday match against Villanova inside #Bubbleville.
• The contest was announced on Sunday evening, less than 46 hours before the scheduled 5pm tipoff time
• Tuesday’s Villanova match and Wednesday’s match at Fairfield mark the first time Hartford has played in a row (with the exception of post-season tournament play and invited tournaments) since the 2016-17 campaign.
• That season, Hartford took down Niagara in 6:30 a.m. overtime on national television (82-78) as part of the ESPN Marathon Day on November 15, before less than 36 hours later at home to the Riders (84-68))

LAST TIME

• Hartford cut a deficit of 19 points to three in the second half but could not produce enough fouls as they fell at UConn, 69-57, in their season opener last Friday.
• The Hawks bridged the two halves on a 22-6 run to take possession (40-37) with 13:56 remaining, but the Huskies struggled at a 10-2 pace of their own.
• Sophomore The flower of Moses scored a game-high 24 points when a junior Hunter Marks added 14 points and nine rebounds for Hartford in the defeat

SEASON THAT DON’T LIKE OTHER SEASONS

• Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2020-21 season will look different from the others
• Many protocols and precautions have been put in place to protect team health and safety
• Hartford will start the season without fans inside the Reich Family Pavilion
• The Hawks are currently scheduled to play just six-four non-conference games before the East American games kick off on December 19

VILLANOVA SCOUTING

• Senior guard Colin Gillespie scored 25 points, but that wasn’t enough as Villanova’s 3rd place fell in overtime, 81-73, from Virginia Tech on Saturday.
• The Wildcats are 2-1 in the youth season after starting the year with successive wins over Boston College and Arizona State to take home the 2k Empire Classic Championship
• Gillespie (17.0 ppg, 5.0 apg), a Bob Cousy Point Guard of the Year Award Watch List and All-BIG EAST First Team Pre-Season selection, leads the group back
• Jeremiah Robinson-Earl, the Big East Freshman of the Year, joins Gillespie in pre-season All-BIG EAST First Team
• She led Villanova in both scoring and rebounds, averaging 20.0 points and nine rebounds per game

HISTORY OF THE SERIES: VILLANOVA

• Tuesday marked the second time the Hawks and Wildcats have faced each other in Division I history
• Villanova had the inaugural meeting between the two schools in 2007
• Hartford is 1-29 all time against the current BIG EAST members
• The Hawks’ only win against a BIG EAST team came against UConn in 1986, a 49-48 decision in the first meeting between the two schools (29 December)

LAST MEETING WITH VILLANOVA
VILLANOVA 103, HARTFORD 75 (14 DES.2007)

• Scottie Reynolds led all scorers with 21 points as Villanova beat Hartford, 103-75, in Philadelphia
• The Hawks kept the game close, three points behind with 9:57 left, but the Wildcats would run 14-1 to seal victory.
• Joe Zeglinski led the Hawks with 20 points, while Warren McLendon added 19 points and eight rebounds

SCOUTING FAIRFIELD

• Fairfield fell to Providence in his season opener last Wednesday, 97-56, before seeing his next two games against Stony Brook and Sacred Heart postponed and canceled, respectively.
• New Jalen Leach and senior Taj Benning lead the Stags by 10 points each in their singles play
• Stags’ 2020-21 list features eight new arrivals and eight returning from a team that posted an overall record of 12-20 and conference mark 8-12 last year
• Senior guard Jesus Cruz, Pre-Season MAAC Whole Third Team selection, leads the regain after averaging 11.0 points a year ago

HISTORY OF THE SERIES: FAIRFIELD

• Wednesday marked the ninth time that Hartford and Fairfield rivals have met on hardwood
• The meeting will end a seven-year gap between the two schools, with the last meeting taking place in 2013
• The Hawks picked up a 63-53 win in the teams’ last meeting to draw an all-time draw in four games apiece.

LAST MEETING WITH FAIRFIELD
HARTFORD 63, FAIRFIELD 53 (13 November 2013)

• Hartford ended a three-game losing streak against Fairfield with a 63-53 win at Bridgeport in 2013
• The Hawks, who played the previous day at 7 a.m. on the Florida Gulf Coast, fired 64.3 percent (9-of-14) from outside the line that night for their first win over the Stags since 1989.
• Yasin Kolo scored 20 points from the bench to temporarily lead Hartford Mark Nwakamma posted a double-double with 17 points and 11 rebounds

INTEREST DIVISION

• Selection of Hartford’s first All-Rookie Team since 2012, Flowers was one of Hartford’s most consistent players last season
• Two of Hartford’s five best offensive attempts of the 2019-20 season came from Flowers
• By scoring 28 points – the most by new Hartford students since January 20, 2002 – against St. Petersburg. Francis Brooklyn (December 5), he equaled his career-best points total the following month against New Hampshire (January 4)
• Bunga is third in the team’s score (10.4 ppg)
• He leads the Hawks with 56 goals, which is the fourth most scored by a Hartford rookie in program history

ROOKIE DEBUT

• Three rookies make their college debut in Friday’s season opener on Friday
• Thomas webley gets a start on the front court and plays 33 minutes, the second most on the team
• He made an immediate impact on the board, drawing six, including three from offensive glass
• AJ Gray and Briggs McClain grabs the final minutes of the game
• senior Austin Williams and sophomore students Jakub Dombek – a transfer pair – also made his Hartford debut on Friday evening
• Williams got a start and played 20 minutes, while Dombek saw four minutes in his first game as Hawk

SOLID CORE RETURNS

• Bringing back eight players, Hartford returned 75.4% of his score, including six of the seven top scorers from last year
• Additionally, the Hawks returned most of their production in rebounds (73.2%), assists (86.2%), steals (88.4%) and minutes (79.8%).
• Hartford’s top scorer, Marks (10.8 ppg), also served as the team’s top rebounder (6.1 rpg)
• The Hawks also brought back the most assists last season (Traci Carter, 4.9 apg) and steal (Carter, 2.5 spg)

NEXT AT TAP

• Hartford continues his busy week with a pair of home games
• The Hawks make their home debut on Friday night, when they host neighbors Central Connecticut on ESPN3 at 6pm
• Homestand continues on Monday, when Hartford finishes the home-and-home series with Fairfield at 4pm on ESPN3

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