With all the stops, starts and pauses across women’s basketball, this has been a season of survive and advance just to reach the NCAA Tournament. Each of the 64 teams in this year’s tourney and the four on stand-by have been affected by COVID-19 in one way or another. The luckiest teams were merely inconvenienced by a game being canceled or rescheduled due to an opponent’s positive test results or tracing issues. Duke, Virginia and Vanderbilt were among the teams that decided to end their seasons and stop trying to play through the pandemic. But the journey is not over, and teams recognize their dreams can still be derailed by the virus.
