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Arch Madness bracket and schedule

Tommy said:
I enjoy a good debate. Let me throw this one out there:
Black people must provide a negative COVID test, but white people don’t. Would that be allowed or does that break discrimination laws? Forgetting the 4th amendment right now.
How is that different than this current policy when vaccinated and unvaccinated can both spread and catch COVID?

Would love to hear a counter argument to this question.
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That would violate the 1964 Civil Rights Act which prohibits private shop discrimination on the basis of race, religion or gender. But the unvaccinated are not a protected group under the Civil Rights laws.
 
St Louis Blues fans haven’t seemingly had a problem with the regulations as they’re at 97% capacity for the current season. If you don’t want to get a vaccine, fine. Don’t want to wear a mask, fine. It doesn’t mean that you’ll be allowed into a business that has a policy about vaccines and masks. It’s pretty simple. As for the tournament according to the BU ticket office only about 125 all session tickets have been sold. Will be curious to see how many people do show up.
 
Mikovio said:
That would violate the 1964 Civil Rights Act which prohibits private shop discrimination on the basis of race, religion or gender. But the unvaccinated are not a protected group under the Civil Rights laws.
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Religion is the reason many give for not being vaccinated, including myself. I asked for a religious exemption.
Beyond that point, if you can swap out white and black for vaccinated and unvaccinated and the outcome is different, I think I’ve made my point. If one is discrimination, you can’t say the other is not regardless of how the law is written.
Let’s remember, it used to be legal according to laws to discriminate against blacks, it also used to be legal to own slaves. Did that make it right? The reason those things changed is because our founding document, the very first one, the Declaration of Independence states that ALL men are created equal, not some, not white, not rich, and certainly not vaccinated, but ALL.
The Declaration and our Constitution supersede all other writings. If that is not the case, then all laws are left up to the whim of the people in power to decide how and when to enforce it. I understand that that is EXACTLY what we are seeing these days, and that is exactly what I am arguing against.
 
Tommy said:
Religion is the reason many give for not being vaccinated, including myself. I asked for a religious exemption.
Beyond that point, if you can swap out white and black for vaccinated and unvaccinated and the outcome is different, I think I’ve made my point. If one is discrimination, you can’t say the other is not regardless of how the law is written.
Let’s remember, it used to be legal according to laws to discriminate against blacks, it also used to be legal to own slaves. Did that make it right? The reason those things changed is because our founding document, the very first one, the Declaration of Independence states that ALL men are created equal, not some, not white, not rich, and certainly not vaccinated, but ALL.
The Declaration and our Constitution supersede all other writings. If that is not the case, then all laws are left up to the whim of the people in power to decide how and when to enforce it. I understand that that is EXACTLY what we are seeing these days, and that is exactly what I am arguing against.
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Since the requirement doesn’t discriminate against any creed on its face courts would apply a test to determine whether the Civil Rights Act applies, like whether it has a disparate impact. What’s legal and what is right are two different concepts. I’ve gotten the vaccine, my girlfriend hasn’t. I agree with Da Coach that since it isn’t key to stopping the spread like measles or polio and appears to only protect the vaccinated from its effects it should be a personal choice.
 
Mikovio said:
Since the requirement doesn’t discriminate against any creed on its face courts would apply a test to determine whether the Civil Rights Act applies, like whether it has a disparate impact. What’s legal and what is right are two different concepts. I’ve gotten the vaccine, my girlfriend hasn’t. I agree with Da Coach that since it isn’t key to stopping the spread like measles or polio and appears to only protect the vaccinated from its effects it should be a personal choice.
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Thanks for the thoughtful debate, Mikovio. Appreciate your thoughts and comments.
 
Good deal. So with all of that solved….

What does Bradley need to do to beat Loyola on Friday?

I fully expect high effort, good defense, and great rebounding.

I think for Bradley, it’s about shots falling, free throw margin, free throw percentage, and perimeter D.
 
Tommy said:
Thanks for the thoughtful debate, Mikovio. Appreciate your thoughts and comments.
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Not a problem. I wish someone from MVC offices could get the requirements removed a few days earlier. Guess they don’t have much pull with the City.
 
Dub said:
Good deal. So with all of that solved….

What does Bradley need to do to beat Loyola on Friday?

I fully expect high effort, good defense, and great rebounding.

I think for Bradley, it’s about shots falling, free throw margin, free throw percentage, and perimeter D.
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Loyola is a different team this year without Cameron Krutwig. They started the season trying to play the same style, only with sophomore Jacob Hutson starting and playing the center position that Krutwig played. But they got very little production from Hutson, so he's been taken out of the starting lineup and rotation. They have been going with Chris Knight playing inside, and relying a bit more on perimeter scoring. They have several guys shooting better than 40% from three- Lucas Williamson (40.2%), Braden Norris (42.5%), Tate Hall (45.0%), Keith Clemons (40.0%), and Ryan Schwieger is at 37.9% and Aher Uguak at 36.5%, so it makes Loyola tough to guard.
Bradley needs to do what they do best- defense (Bradley is #1 in FG% defense), defend the 3-pointers (Bradley is also #1 in 3pt FG% defense), and rebounding (Bradley is #1 in every rebounding category). In addition, they need good shot selection and hope the shots fall, since Bradley trails Loyola by a little in most offensive stat categories. And as always, they need to limit turnovers and make their free throws- the 2 areas that have hurt this team the most in losses this season (Bradley ranks 9th in turnovers/game and 10th in FT%).
 
You can't overestimate the effect of upper classmen during the post-season. That being said, we're bigger and quicker, so if we bring our A game we should be able to take them down, especially considering we beat them at home and would have beat them at their place if the refs didn't hand the game over to them.
 
The MVC just sent an email to ticket buyers that includes the following info-
Upon entry to Enterprise Center, one of the following will be required:
  • An official, government-issued vaccination card listing the guest’s name and dates the last dose was administered.
  • A photo or digital version of an official government-issued vaccination card listing the guest’s name and dates the last dose was administered.
  • A printed or digital negative COVID-19 rapid or PCR test administered by a healthcare professional with 72 hours to a guest’s given event that includes the guest’s name and date the last test was administered. Tests administered after 12 p.m. on Thursday, March 3 will be accepted for entry for ALL sessions for the weekend with no additional testing required.
So it looks like if an unvaccinated person gets their Covid test after 12 noon Thursday, it will be good for all sessions through Sunday.
 
Da Coach said:
The MVC just sent an email to ticket buyers that includes the following info-
Upon entry to Enterprise Center, one of the following will be required:
  • An official, government-issued vaccination card listing the guest’s name and dates the last dose was administered.
  • A photo or digital version of an official government-issued vaccination card listing the guest’s name and dates the last dose was administered.
  • A printed or digital negative COVID-19 rapid or PCR test administered by a healthcare professional with 72 hours to a guest’s given event that includes the guest’s name and date the last test was administered. Tests administered after 12 p.m. on Thursday, March 3 will be accepted for entry for ALL sessions for the weekend with no additional testing required.
So it looks like if an unvaccinated person gets their Covid test after 12 noon Thursday, it will be good for all sessions through Sunday.
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Thanks Coach!
 
Arch Madness is here. About 10:00 before the two ISU’s battle it out. They split their series with Blue winning by 3 and Red winning this past Saturday by 20. Expecting Red to win as I think they’re the better team and a playing with a purpose.
 
I'm watching the InSU vs. ILSU game, but I am noticing how crappy the ArchMadness.com website is this year. In every prior year, their Arch Madness Tourney Central schedule (LINK) had several link, including to the Live Stats for the game. But this year, there are no links. Just a plain schedule, which is rather worthless.
 
Red went almost 6:00 without scoring and Blue made enough shots to lead at the half 28-23. Blue shot 11-28, 4-15 from 3 and Red shot 10-33, 3-14 from 3.
 
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