NCAA Tournament Cancellation Due to COVID-19
By: Andrew Mercer
Photo by: Andrew Mercer
A moment in sports that will go down in history as
unforgettable is the cancellation of the 2020 March Madness NCAA Basketball
Tournament. At first, the plan was to play both the conference tournaments and
NCAA tournaments without fans in attendance. However, this quickly started to
change for the worse and conference tournaments were being cancelled in the
middle of games being played. A few days later the NCAA tournament was cancelled,
and the season was ended altogether. Seniors on their respective teams would
not get a chance to play in the NCAA tournament and lost their eligibility prematurely.
The decision to cancel the tournaments came shortly after the NBA postponed
their season when one player tested positive for the virus. This
demonstrates that the NCAA was paying close attention to what the NBA was up to
and ultimately decided their outcome of having to completely cancel the season.
The NCAA lost a great amount of money by having to cancel the tournaments as
they are some of the most highly anticipated sporting events in all of America.
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