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The Week When Everything Changed: Looking back a year later through tweets

By News Mar 11, 2021 | 5:55 AM

To say that a lot has changed in the last year would be an understatement.

No week saw that reality hit more than this week one year ago. It began with Husker sports on as usual and ended with a limited attendance for the boys state basketball finals as the rest of the sports world had already shut down.

Here’s a look at that week, through the Twitter activity of several local journalists and personalities.

Sunday March 8, 2020

Both Husker men’s basketball and baseball were in action. One wrapping up a weekend series and the other the regular season.

Nebrasketball had to change the starting lineup due to the suspension of multiple players.

The basketball game did not go well, ending in a 107-75 loss.

The basketball game did not go well, ending in a 107-75 loss.

Baseball got the win though, right about the same time at CHI Health attempted to “calm fears and reduce demand” regarding coronavirus (COVID-19) testing.

Still days from things really blowing up, we got plenty of these tweets…

And an empty tournament bracket will so much potential.

Monday March 9, 2020

Offseason time for Nebraska football with the start of spring practices and a big Monday press conference with players and coaches.

An announcement for Husker volleyball on their spring match.

Some people were enjoying spring break with their kids, they never wanted the break to end!

Nebrasketball stayed in the news for a Monday.

Quite the solid prediction from Nebraska Governor Pete Ricketts in this Paul Hammel story.

A less solid prediction on the curative properties of substances.

Tuesday March 10, 2020

More Nebrasketball updates on the roster, with a suspension explanation and two football players heading to the hardwood.

“No changes expected” is not a series of words that should be included in anything from that week.

The “potential” of cancellations.

The first cancellation. The Ivy League would be the conference competing the least in anything over the next year.

The NCAA would make plenty of announcements, but no advisements against events on the Tuesday is fairly significant. That would drastically change in the next 48 hours.

A Husker baseball mid-week series. Those don’t exist in 2021.

And more announcements from other leagues on attendance.

Wednesday March 11, 2020

The day of all days this week.

At this point we would say “only” two more cases.

The first big news on the day of what would change high school sports for the rest of the week before everything got called off.

More Husker baseball? More Husker baseball. With fans even!

Then the incredible ride that was the NSAA announcement with health officials.

Heady spoke for everyone.

A Big Ten statement, though nothing particularly was changed yet.

Hand sanitizer was roughly equal in value to gold last March. Not that its value has decreased much since then.

Good news did happen on this day. College Football Hall of Fame for Eric Crouch.

But good news was few and far between. The writing was on the wall for events.

I was so naïve.

But I suppose there was a rough understanding beginning to take hold of what the situation was.

“Is this the last time fans will get to watch Big Ten basketball teams in person this year?” It was the last time fans got to watch anything Big Ten until…that is still ongoing.

Oh ya, a basketball game was still taking place.

Then the focus, as much as it was singular for the moment, became much more about the sports world in general.

Just 40 minutes later…

Famous people announced positive tests.

And the full realization of what was happening.

Back on the court, Indiana had taken control of the game. But it wasn’t what was happening with the players that was getting attention so much as what was going on on the Nebraska sideline.

The game finally finished.

All attention turned to coach Fred Hoiberg, and the rest of the Nebraska team, which was at one point quarantined in their locker room.

And then the Big East became the final conference to limit attendance for their tournament while another conference saw its final game postponed.

Thursday March 12, 2020

Still recovering from a full Wednesday, Bryan Fischer did a good job of recapping the entire day from a larger viewpoint.

State boys basketball was still up and running, and did so without any stoppages.

Hoiberg put out a statement on how the situation from Wednesday developed.

Remember that extended “spring break” that was becoming more of a possibility? It continued to inch towards real Thursday morning.

The Big East at least began their tournament for the day.

Nebraska football’s Pro Day added to the busy lineup.

But things continued to change with news every five minutes of suspensions or cancellations.

And the Big East Tournament finally joined the rest of the sports world.