INDIANAPOLIS – One player after another became sick with COVID-19. One game after another was postponed.
They have been out of shape, out of routines, out of contention. Never out of hope, though. Getting back on the basketball floor has been a refuge.
“I think I was having a harder time when I couldn’t play than now,” said Jaia Alexander, a senior on the Butler women’s team.
Few teams in all of college sports have been as profoundly affected by the pandemic as these Bulldogs.
Coach Kurt Godlevske said all but five players have come down with the virus.