KSU women’s basketball coach Todd Starkey has COVID-19, and Kent State’s Wednesday game against Northern Illinois is postponed.
The Mid-American Conference announced the postponement at midday Tuesday.
Soon after 8 p.m., the Record-Courier’s Allen Moff said that Starkey had confirmed that he had COVID.
Moff’s story said that no other coach or team member had tested positive, and Kent State’s Saturday game against Ball State was expected to be played at the M.A.C. Center. Link to Record-Courier story.
Associate head coach Fran Recchia will run the team while Starkey is in quarantine. Saturday’s game between Kent State (4-2, 3-0 in MAC) and Ball State (3-4, 1-2) starts at noon. No fans are allowed; the game will be streamed on ESPN+.
The women’s team had to suspend activities just before the start of the season and several non-conference games were canceled.
Current reading of ESPN’s daily listings of women’s games shows as many as a fourth of all women’s games are being canceled or rescheduled.
No. 5 Baylor’s game against No. 3 Connecticut was canceled Tuesday when Baylor coach Kim Mulkey announced she had tested positive for the virus. Dixie State, a member of the Western Athletic Conference, canceled the rest of its season Tuesday. Duke had done so in December.