So far, the 2020-21 high school boys basketball season has lasted one day. Mount Carmel was the only team to play on opening night back on Dec. 11, with a win over South Williamsport, before Gov. Tom Wolf’s latest COVID-19 partial lockdown kicked in, which will last until Monday.
When the season resumes this weekend, it will be with a whole lot of question marks, noticeably many from the pandemic itself and the way it has affected teams’ schedules, and practices.
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