Nebraska Basketball Team Quarantined After Head Coach Fred Hoiberg Fell Violently Ill On The Bench
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Nebraska head coach Fred Hoiberg decided to coach during today’s Big Ten tournament game and was forced to leave after falling violently ill on the bench in the second half.
Big Ten Network says Fred Hoiberg is sick, but decided to coach the Big Ten tourney game tonight anyway.
— Sam McKewon (@swmckewonOWH) March 12, 2020
Fred Hoiberg who is coaching the game while fighting an illness just left the court with several minutes remaining in the game. Hope he’s ok. pic.twitter.com/hBwjl9dQ31
— Chris Hassel (@Hassel_Chris) March 12, 2020
jesus christ fred pic.twitter.com/WNEf1Jr8aN
— Big Ten Geek (@bigtengeek) March 12, 2020
Hoiberg was later taken to the hospital for more testing.
Nebraska head coach Fred Hoiberg been taken to the hospital, source told @Stadium. Was sick, left the game early and was told to go to be checked out immediately. https://t.co/OPs1nmNTZg
— Jeff Goodman (@GoodmanHoops) March 12, 2020
Per @GoodmanHoops, Fred Hoiberg has been taken to the hospital after leaving tonight’s Big Ten Tournament game with an illness.
— Robin Washut (@RobinWashut) March 12, 2020
Nebraska players were not allowed to leave the arena after the game was over.
Nebraska men’s basketball team is not leaving Bankers Life Arena. They were brought their food outside the locker room. They are not letting people back to the area now. I just walked back to the area here and they told me no one from Nebraska will be made available.
— Andy Katz (@TheAndyKatz) March 12, 2020
Update: Nebraska players have been allowed to leave the locker room.
The Nebraska basketball team can now leave the locker room and head onto their bus, per @heady_chris https://t.co/IQuOtr0T4Q
— Sports Illustrated (@SInow) March 12, 2020
Hoiberg was instantly criticized for deciding to attend tonight’s game while ill considering all the coronavirus concerns around the NCAA tournament.
A source confirmed to @NBCSports that Fred Hoiberg has been taken to the hospital. There's concern that the Nebraska team is going to have to be quarantined.
Knowing the severity of what's going on, allowing him to coach tonight was incredibly reckless by everyone at Nebraska.
— Rob Dauster (@RobDauster) March 12, 2020
Really glad Fred Hoiberg defied directives from the World Health Organization and CDC. Totally worth the risk of potentially spreading a pandemic to an arena full of people to coach a last-place team to another blowout loss. https://t.co/o1JZHQbpcZ
— Scott Phillips (@phillipshoops) March 12, 2020
Fred Hoiberg coaching while sick is completely unacceptable on every level. From a public health perspective, from a leadership perspective. Nobody feeling sick should be doing ANYTHING in public right now. This is quite literally a pandemic. https://t.co/KRikphRPfY
— Scott Phillips (@phillipshoops) March 12, 2020
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