CCC Releases Spring Season Basketball Schedule
By Paul Hall on Friday, March 5th, 2021 in More Top Stories Northeastern Oregon News
LA GRANDE – The Cascade Collegiate Conference released the women’s and men’s spring season basketball schedule, with Bushnell University, Corban University, Eastern Oregon University, Multnomah University, Oregon Tech, Southern Oregon University and Warner Pacific University set to participate.
The spring schedule comes on the heels of the approval from the Oregon Health Authority (OHA) of the CCC’s comprehensive Return to Play Plan for high contact sports. In mid-February, Governor Kate Browns’ office announced it would accept Return to Play Plans for college sports, as well as high school activities that had been prohibited during the pandemic.
Seven men’s teams and six women’s teams will hit the hardwood later this month, after Southern Oregon made the decision to opt-out of the spring schedule in women’s hoops.
The schedule will run over an eight-week period and is set to begin the weekend of March 19-20 and finish April 30-May 1. The 12-game men’s and 10-game women’s CCC slate has teams playing each other on back-to-back dates and incorporates a bye weekend in which non-conference games can be planned.
“Our schools are all finalizing their plans to access antigen testing, which will supplement the weekly PCR testing we have been doing with Santiam Hospital under the leadership of Dr. Sarah Comstock, Ph.D.,” stated CCC Commissioner Robert Cashell. “Our goal is to have all of that in place to begin play in three weeks’ time.”
The revised Return to Play Plan includes strict daily wellness screening, stringent procedures for mitigating against the introduction and spread of COVID-19, and twice per week testing. The conference will use a combination of PCR/Antigen testing to comply with the approved plan.
