UConn women's basketball head coach Geno Auriemma told reporters this week that his players receive daily antigen tests for COVID-19 while the men's basketball team is given a daily PCR test, considered the better and more reliable test, per Jordan Mendoza of USA Today.

On Friday, NCAA commissioner Mark Emmert responded to the difference in the tests and the criticism that has followed the organizing body's decision to give men's and women's basketball players different tests.

"I'm not a medical expert so not going to get into a debate about PCR and antigen," he told reporters, per Mendoza. "All the health experts said the protocol that we're using in all of our venues and all of our championships has no [difference] at all in terms of our ability to mitigate risk,"

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