Well, it’s finally here. The men’s college basketball season has been live for about six-ish hours and the No. 7 Wisconsin Badgers tip-off a few hours from now against the Eastern Illinois Panthers from the Ohio Valley Conference (OVC). The Panthers finished last year squarely in the middle of the conference at 17-15 overall (9-9 OVC).
There have already been a spate of cancellations and postponements in the college basketball world and, presumably, it is only going to continue to get worse. The Badgers are lucky as the furthest they have to travel in non-conference play is Milwaukee, but who knows how COVID-19 will affect the other teams they play, or how it will affect them in Madison.