The NCAA Sport Science Institute along with the NCAA COVID-19 Medical Advisory Group has released its latest health and safety guidelines with these guidelines focused more on the upcoming college basketball season.
“This basketball resocialization guidance is based on the best information available in a rapidly changing COVID-19 environment,” NCAA President Mark Emmert said in a release. “It is predicated on the assumption that rapid testing capabilities will be readily available later this year. We will constantly assess emerging information as we prepare for the start of the basketball season at the end of November.”
As part of the new guidelines, they suggest testing three times a week on non-consecutive days a week including for officials as well appropriately distancing Tier 1 individuals from essential personnel during.