I took my Schnauzer (now 10) by the campus yesterday and it looked quieter than I expected.  Thought I'd see lots of kids and lots of masks, instead I saw only a handful of students and (mostly) masks
Hard to see GW allowing fans in a few months, but maybe 2021?

That being said, what does out TV/streaming options look like?  
 

On a somewhat related note, the NFL's Tennessee Titans have had 3 players and 5 staff members test positive for COVID. I bring this up to say that College Basketball needs to have a bubble environment for ALL games if they want to have a season. At this point, I don't see anyway possible that you can have a normal schedule of 4 or 5 games a week where schools travel to and from games without positive COVID tests causing chaos. The college basketball season starts in a little less than 2 months, they have enough time to set up bubble locations for every game.

The Dude, I'm assuming that the TV/streaming schedule would be like the NBA's where they'd just do local and national broadcast from the bubble locations. I'm hoping for a local bubble where the games would be televised on the local stations(MASN, NBC Washington, etc.) here. 

GW0509,  Georgetown dropped out of the Wooden Classic, but I'm not sure if its for COVID reasons or Ewing doesn't want to his inexperienced team to get clobbered by some BCS teams!! LOL  If I were GW, I'd be trying to create or get into  bubble events like the one Louisville set up. 

I suspect we will hear something in the coming days. From the D1 Docket’s twitter feed, it seems a TON of schools are signing on to MTEs hosted by power conference for the non-conf.

This is a dumb question, but I've got to ask, what exactly does MTE stand for, I know the 'T' is for tournament, but I'm not sure of the 'M' and 'E'

It seems as if College Basketball wants to have a normal season without a bubble. With what we're seeing happen in the NFL and college football, I don't understand their thinking. I'm assuming the travel, staying in hotels, going back home/ to campus and participating in "every day activities" is what causes the outbreak. Why would college basketball want to follow the NFL and College Football, and not the NBA?? It's a lot easier to play basketball in a bubble because you have a lot less players, and can have multiple teams play multiple games in a day. Does college basketball really want to have a regular conference schedule and risk a COVID outbreak causing schools to postpone 3 or 4 games?

Who is going to be the host team of this bubble event in D.C.? Mason looks to be the biggest name. Where will this event take place?

It actually stands for Multi-Team Event.  Scheduling them impacts the maximum number of games a team can play.  Obviously this season doesn't have those concerns due to a bunch of games being eliminated due to COVID.

Here is a good article that explains how the MTE impacts scheduling: https://www.bloggingthebracket.com/2019/6/27/18307537/college-basketball-early-season-tournaments-multi-team-events-mte-reforms-changes-2020-21-ncaa

Nothing definite but hearing the following:

South Carolina
Delaware
Towson
Howard

That means there are 3 others to be filled.
 

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Beyond cool.

Just tremendous! Sure hope whose is ever playing point is calm and do the same for the rest of the guys. Just great news

Awesome! It's been hard following everything going on around college basketball this year. I was under the assumption that the Patriot League had canceled their OOC games and aren't slated to play until at least January - I guess Army and Navy don't need to follow those rules? Seems like a cool event to be a participant in.

Navy returns senior Cam Davis who was their leading scorer at 16 ppg last year, and also brings back a couple other impact juniors. Defensively, the Midshipmen play a lot of zone so hopefully we have learned our lesson from the Fordham games last year! We should get some nice looks from deep. Offensively, Navy isn't really much of a three point shooting team - no one really shoots better than 33% from behind the arc and as a team they were among the worst in the country. They don't have really any rim protectors either and ranked towards the bottom in blocked shots as well. The one thing they are good at which will be the key to the game is rebounding - Navy is one of the best teams in offensive rebounding. Preventing second chance opportunities will be something to watch.

Navy played George Mason to open the season last year and took the Patriots to overtime. GMU ultimately prevailed, but this will definitely be a good early test - I believe we played them in the secret scrimmage last year?