Baylor Coach Kim Mulkey Getting Crushed for Wanting no COVID Tests for Final Four

Kim Mulkey’s Baylor Bears won’t be part of the Women’s Final Four, but that doesn’t mean she’s not going to share her opinion. The basketball coach wants one thing for the teams remaining in the NCAA tournament, no COVID-19 testing. Speaking after her No. 2-seeded Bears were eliminated on Monday night in San Antonio, Mulkey suggested that the NCAA stop testing for the Final Four and let the focus be strictly on the basketball.

“After the games today and tomorrow, there’s four teams left, I think, on the men’s side and the women’s side,” Mulkey said, unprompted, during her postgame news conference. “They need to dump the COVID testing. Wouldn’t it be a shame to keep COVID testing and then you got kids that test positive or something and they don’t get to play in the Final Four? So you just need to forget the COVID tests and get the four teams playing in each Final Four and go battle it out.”

Here is the audio. There was not a question that prompted this.#ncaaW | @TheNextHoops pic.twitter.com/wWq1dDXbsY

— Spencer Nusbaum (@spencernusbaum_) March 30, 2021

Baylor coach Kim Mulkey, who tested positive for COVID this season, in the postgame: pic.twitter.com/miLKKxZrQd

— Chantel Jennings (@ChantelJennings) March 30, 2021

The internet reacted to her suggestion:

So unsolicited, and after a great performance by her team, Kim Mulkey suggested they stop testing the players for COVID because this inconvenient little pandemic might interfere with the Final Four.

Then again, she enthusiastically took her team to see Trump in the White House. https://t.co/BwEWa3i4Ip

— Jemele Hill (@jemelehill) March 30, 2021

It’s all fun and games until a basketball player with COVID collapses and dies from myocarditis.

— Scott Krugman, MD (@Dr_ScottK) March 30, 2021

https://twitter.com/IrrationalHawk/status/1376698488025661440

Who else remembers that time Kim Mulkey said people should be hit in the face if they questioned sending their kids to Baylor after the football rape scandal https://t.co/fx2A52SOyD

— Alex Kirshner (@alex_kirshner) March 30, 2021

Kim Mulkey just said the NCAA needs to stop COVID testing at the Final Four so that one team doesn't get knocked out because of a positive test.

What?????????????

— Daniel Connolly (@DanielVConnolly) March 30, 2021

Kim Mulkey doesn’t wear her mask. Caught COVID from a family member during a Christmas celebration. Blamed the “almighty dollar” Now she doesn’t want COVID testing? — y’all better get her before I do lmao pic.twitter.com/ZqTVV70uMI

— Jas (@JasTayler) March 30, 2021

still thinking about how brave it was for kim mulkey to suggest the ncaa start deliberately risking its athletes lives the second she leaves the arena https://t.co/OY6xCF7qXS

— Matt Ellentuck (@mellentuck) March 30, 2021

kim mulkey decided to go out sad i see https://t.co/9ocLdNoUr6

— Natalie Weiner (@natalieweiner) March 30, 2021

https://twitter.com/thelonghorns12/status/1376720273454608390

if i ever see Kim Mulkey pic.twitter.com/1ILnIRJAua

— Lucy Rohden (@lucysportsjokes) March 30, 2021

Folks, we don’t have to cover Kim Mulkey putting her foot in her mouth with a dumbass suggestion if we choose not to.

We can focus on an incredible game featuring two great teams. We can focus on Bueckers/Williams/Carrington being amazing. It is possible to not take the bait.

— Sam Vecenie (@Sam_Vecenie) March 30, 2021

https://twitter.com/JasTayler/status/1376718097525129219

Players and coaches at both tournaments have been tested daily, and have been wearing devices that help assist with contact tracing.

Probably a good idea to follow thru til the end of the tourney…

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