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COVID-19 toll more than physical for hard-hit hoops teams

FILE -A person carries chairs to a storage cart after an NCAA college basketball game between Kansas and Colorado was canceled two hours before the scheduled tipoff, Tuesday, Dec. 21, 2021, in Boulder, Colo. As of midweek in Division I, 420 men's games and 476 women's games had been postponed or canceled because of COVID outbreaks, according to Associated Press research. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)

FILE - CSU Bakersfield's head coach Greg McCall reacts to action on the court during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game against Oregon State in Corvallis, Ore., Sunday, Dec. 29, 2019. For the Cal State Bakersfield women, it's been two years of hard lessons. The Roadrunners (4-16, 3-8) had three COVID pauses totaling seven games last season. This season started with coach Greg McCall coming down with COVID and missing two games. (AP Photo/Amanda Loman, File)

FILE - California head coach Charmin Smith talks with an official during an NCAA college basketball game in the first round of the Pac-12 women's tournament Wednesday, March 3, 2021, in Las Vegas. California women's basketball coach Charmin Smith and her players figured they had gone through the worst of the pandemic in 2020-21. (AP Photo/Isaac Brekken, File)

COVID-19 toll more than physical for hard-hit hoops teams