Sounds unlikely that MSU-Minnesota will get made up, because Minnesota already is making up the COVID cancelled game with Illinois
Which, obviously sports aren't what matters right now, and its unclear if all the basketball players stayed on campus.
But since this is a basketball thread, from a basketball perspective, I'm torn on this. On one hand, MSU would be losing the closest thing to an assured win (home vs. Minnesota). Considering how bunched the standings are, losing that win, could mean the difference between being in like a 4 way tie for third, and finishing in 6th, or whatever. I also said, coming off the Rutgers loss, I almost thought MSU needed to win 6 games, between their final 8 regular season games, and the BTT. They won the first 2, but this removes a *chance*, and by chance I mean nearly assuredly. How will the committee view a 19-12 MSU team that didn't play Minnesota at all (they didn't have a game scheduled there), vs. a 20-12 MSU team with a home win over Minnesota?
On the other hand, does a win over Minnesota help the actual resume? Surely not nearly as much as a loss hurts it. Remember Wisconsin fell 8 spots in the NET when they barely beat Minnesota at home. So absent a blowout win, probably doesn't impact MSU's resume positively. And considering MSU has games scheduled for every remaining weekday and weekend window, they would have to work some things around to squeeze it in. Which certainly can't help in some of the remaining 50/50 games (@Michigan, vs. Indiana, @Iowa, @Nebraska). So is it worth squeezing it in, to put them on short rest for one of those? Remember how bad Northwestern looked on short rest against Michigan last week, after they had to makeup their COVID game with Wisconsin.
Because Minnesota has to makeup their COVID postponment game, they basically every other day as is. 2/18, 2/20, 2/22, 2/25, 3/2, 3/5.
My only thoughts would be to move the Minnesota-Rutgers game from Thursday 3/2, up to Tuesday 2/28, same day as MSU-Nebraska. Then play MSU-Minnesota on Thursday, 3/2. Or move Minnesota-Wisconsin up from Sunday 3/5, to Saturday 3/4, and then tack MSU-Minnesota onto the end on Monday, 3/6.