St. Louis Post-Dispatch · Mar 29, 2020
Refreshing the NCAA eligibility for spring athletes could be complicated, costly
Players with the University of Missouri baseball team wait in the baggage claim area of Chicago's Midway Airport on March 12, only to arrive in Chicago and then get notified that the team's SEC Conference opener with Alabama had been canceled. (AP Photo)COLUMBIA, Mo. — Since the coronavirus wiped out his 2020 season, Jackson Lancaster, a junior outfielder for the Missouri baseball team, has returned home to Corinth, Miss., where he keeps his lefthanded swing fresh in a makeshift batting cage in his family’s barn.
These days, you have to improvise.