Details Matter -- IU Plans For Safe Player Return

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BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – James Naismith would understand -- to a point.

All he had to do was invent basketball.

Indiana's medical and athletic officials have to figure out a way to safely return and train athletes in a pandemic.

"I often refer to this as this is like coaching a new sport that's never been invented," says Andy Hipskind, IU's chief medical officer.

"There's no season. There's no previous season from last year to go on. There's no scouting report to go on. So, while we continuously scour the science and the literature and the studies we can, a lot of this is just evolving."

The goal for college athletics, as it is for so many things worldwide, is return to normal, or as…