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Since the final buzzer sounded on VCU’s 20-point dominating home win over Florida Atlantic on Wednesday night, the Rams have been in scramble mode.
Early Thursday morning, VCU Athletics announced that the next game on VCU’s schedule, a home game against Penn State, had been canceled due to positive COVID-19 cases within the Penn State program. The game will not be made up in the 2021-22 season, although VCU Athletic Director Ed McLaughlin tweeted that Penn State will complete the second half of the schools’ home-and-home series “likely next year.”
The sudden change leaves VCU with an open date over the weekend, with numerous potential options to fill that date. While the Penn State-VCU game is the first game canceled due to COVID-19 this year among the Atlantic 10’s 14 member...
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