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004 - From COVID shutdown to now 031226

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🗓️ 12 March 2026

⏱️ 21 minutes

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From COVID shutdown to now

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0:00.0

Welcome back inside the Inarber studios of the Big 1050 WTCA online at the big 1050.com.

0:07.2

So on this day every year, at least now for the last few years, I'm kind of sitting back.

0:13.0

Usually it's around this time.

0:14.3

I just kind of sit back and reflect because six years ago today, it was in the, I guess,

0:20.4

the 11 a.m. Eastern time hour there were big

0:23.5

east basketball games big east tournament basketball games going on in New York because i

0:28.9

believe their first games tipped off that day at 11 a.m. Maybe it was the Atlantic 10 maybe they

0:33.3

both were on the on the floor and Michigan was getting ready they were warming up because it was actually the second day of the Big Ten men's basketball

0:40.5

tournament in Indianapolis in 2020.

0:42.9

On the first day, you had the other, at that time, which would have been the preliminary

0:48.0

games on a Wednesday.

0:49.8

And then on Thursday, six years ago today, Michigan and Rutgers were on the floor warming up in Indianapolis, Sam.

0:57.0

And then they were not.

0:59.1

And they were told to go back into the locker rooms.

1:01.5

And so every year on this day, I just kind of like have that moment of reflection.

1:05.5

I don't know what stranger was more bizarre, the fact that Michigan and Rutgers were warming up and then told to go back to the locker rooms or that you had, I know the Big East and I want to say maybe it was the A10, we're actually playing the first half of basketball games that day.

1:19.7

And then eventually they stopped playing action and then everything shut down.

1:23.5

But I don't know, every year on this day, I just kind of have that moment of, and I think it'll hit it'll even a little harder tonight because you're taking us down to LCA. We're going to the Pistons game. We're going to be at a sporting event where six years ago they took sporting events away from us. I mean, rightfully so, but still it was, so six years ago, Sam, the wild, six years of past.

1:44.7

Yeah, man, I forgot about that.

1:46.4

I forgot they were actually on the, you're right.

1:48.8

It was surreal, too.

1:50.3

And you thought, I remember at the time thinking, okay, this is, they're going to figure

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