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By: Andrew Mercer Photo by: Andrew Mercer After the NCAA basketball tournament was cancelled there was question as to if the seniors for the previous fall/winter semester would keep their eligibility for next year. A few weeks later the NCAA voted to allow spring semester seniors to keep their eligibility . However, this was not the case for the fall/winter semester seniors. The vote opted for them to lose their eligibility even though they did not get to participate in their end of season tournaments. The thought was that the seniors played most of their games and although disappointing, the seniors would not get more eligibility.  There would also have been a problem with teams having too many scholarships. Future freshmen had already committed to schools and most teams’ scholarships amount were full for next season. In the end, there were too many obstacles to allow this to happen. The reason they granted seniors for spring semester sports was because their season ...

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...