General 10/1/2020 3:00:00 PM Chris Brannick

MIAA CEO Council Announces Update On Winter Sports

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – The Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association announced Thursday its CEO council approved a measure to start basketball season as scheduled this November.

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Central Oklahoma is slated to open the 2020-21 basketball season with a home game against Missouri Southern on Nov. 19, beginning a 22-game schedule that consists of all conference contests. The league said in its announcement that practice can begin Oct. 15 ahead of the season-opener in mid-November.

The MIAA also announced that wrestling and indoor track & field scheduling will be left up to the discretion of the institutions. The league does not make schedules for the two sports, so it will leave those decisions up to the schools. Central has not yet announced schedules for either of those sports.

Central will announce as the season gets closer more information on protocols that will be implemented to ensure the health and safety of all of its student-athletes, coaches, and personnel. UCO will also announce more information regarding spectators in the coming weeks.

The MIAA also announced information regarding previously suspended fall sports.

The league said it will not develop a formal football schedule or conduct a cross country championship this academic year and it will not crown a champion in either sport. MIAA football programs will be permitted to set up no more than four joint practices, scrimmages, or games with outside competition or other MIAA members this spring as each member institution deems appropriate for its program.

The CEO Council was also updated on the Association's Athletics Administrators Committee (AAC) review of possible formal 2021 spring seasons for volleyball and women's soccer. At the current time, and based on current health and testing conditions, it is the intent of the MIAA to offer sport seasons this spring for MIAA schools to compete against each other, and possibly non-conference opponents, in the sports of volleyball and women's soccer. Issues concerning the season structure, team schedules, conference awards and statistics, spring tournaments, and other sport issues will continue to be discussed by each sport's MIAA Monitoring Group.

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