UCONN went to undefeated Villanova and beat the crap out of them. 'Nova hung in there for the first quarter, then UCONN went to a zone defense and 'Nova couldn't get the ball inside for the rest of the game. After that blowout, it looks like the Big East won't be much of a challenge after all.
They had a game against a ranked team, DePaul, on Tuesday and even though they were ice cold shooting - I think they made 2 out of 18 three pointers or something -- their defense was again impenetrable and they dominated in the paint -- largely thanks to Olivia Nelson-Ododa -- and won by more than 20 points. They have Baylor coming up next week so we'll see what they've really got.
With that out of the way, I'll say that Windham County is in a very different place now than we were just a couple of months ago. For most of the year we had a very low prevalence of Covid-19, in fact not a single positive test in my town and very few cases anywhere. Since we're largely rural or semi-rural, that meant life wasn't very much affected, particularly during the warm weather when people could gather outside. But now we have to take it much more seriously. We've had a few people in town get very sick, and the death rate in the county overall has become considerable.
Looking at the general incompetence and indifference of the current administration, vaccine distribution is obviously going to be very slow. Joe Biden has pledged to get it up to 1 million shots a day, but that's aspirational. I expect it will take at least 6 weeks and probably more to get up to that rate even after the grownups take over on January 20. So we're not out of the woods for another six months or so. I'll let you know what life is like out here.
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