Penn State Men’s Basketball: VCU Game Canceled Due to Positive COVID-19 Test

Penn State men’s basketball’s road game at VCU scheduled for Saturday has been cancelled due to positive COVID-19 results within the Nittany Lion program, the athletic department announced on Thursday.

The game will not be rescheduled and the status of any future games will determined at a later date. The Nittany Lions are next scheduled to play Dec. 22 against Quinnipiac at the Bryce Jordan Center.

The announcement marks the first athletics postponement for Penn State men’s basketball since last season due to COVID-19 and the first COVID-19 related cancellation of a Penn State athletics’ event since the start of the 2021-22 athletics calendar.

Penn State men’s basketball suffered a slew of cancelations during the 2020-21 season due to COVID-19, much like many of its counterparts across the athletic department and across the country.

As always, a positive COVID-19 test does not guarantee a COVID-19 diagnosis, although Penn State Athletics stopped its daily testing of student-athletes back in May following weeks of effectively no positive COVID-19 test results. Those testing protocols had previously been mandated and paid for by the Big Ten Conference.