The Big East Conference announced Monday that the Jan. 4 meeting between Xavier's men's basketball team and Georgetown in Washington, D.C., has been canceled due to COVID-19 issues with Georgetown's program.
Per conference policy, there will be an attempt to reschedule the game.
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The Big East announced last week that it had modified its original forfeit policy and will now try and reschedule games as a "result of the recent sudden and significant increases in the number of COVID-19 cases nationally and within Big East programs due to the spread of the Omicron variant.