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All major school sports meetings canceled their basketball tournaments on Thursday due to coronavirus, and wondered about this month’s NCAA tournament, one of the most important occasions in the US sports calendar. But it’s not the first time
Within minutes of others, meetings of the Atlantic Coast, Big Ten, Big 12, Pac-12 and Southeastern announced that the rest of their tournaments would not be played. Everyone was preparing to play in giant arenas across the country, but with few other people in the buildings.
The NCAA announced Wednesday that it plans to play its men’s and women’s games, which begin next week with limited access to the general public. The NCAA said only an essential staff and a limited circle of family members could attend the games.
The NCAA reported not without delay whether it was also planning to cancel its outstanding men’s basketball tournament. The NCAA Tournament generates more than $900 million for the settlement and its many member schools.
Big 12 commissioner Bob Bowlsby said “it’s hard to say right now if there will be an NCAA tournament to play in” when the closing of the big 12 was announced.
Texas and Texas Tech were warming up before the game and the handful of members of the circle of close family and friends were already in the stands on Thursday when the groups were removed from the box 40 minutes before the whistleblower.
“I think it’s emblematic of how our country will react to a set of circumstances,” Bowlsy said. “I think it’s smart that we take the right resolution for the right reasons. “
Following the NCAA initiative on Wednesday, top school meetings announced that their basketball tournaments would be held with limited fan access for the rest of the week. On Thursday, after the NBA suspended its season on Wednesday night, they would not play at all.
Some took a little longer than others. Big East began its second-round fight between Creighton and St. John’s, the seed at Madison Square Garden and only at half-time, the tournament was cancelled.
While the Bluejays and Red Storm played, a few metro stops from the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, the Atlantic-10 held a press conference to cancel their tournament.
In addition, tournaments canceled the American Athletics Conference in Fort Wort, Texas; the Sun Belt in New Orleans; The Western Athletic Conference in Anaheim, California; and the Mid-American Conference in Cleveland at a stadium that hosts the NBA Cavaliers and is expected to be the NCAA men’s tournament next week.
The semi-finals and finals of the Sun Belt men’s and women’s tournaments were scheduled to be played Saturday at smoothie King Center, home of the NBA Pelicans and this year’s women’s Final Four.
The SEC also announced the suspension of the regular season festival for all sports groups on campus, as well as the SEC championships until March 30.
For many others, the new coronavirus only causes mild or moderate symptoms, such as fever and cough. For some, especially the elderly and others with existing fitness problems, this can lead to a more serious illness, adding pneumonia. other people’s virus.
The ten great gambling games in Indianapolis; THE SEC in Nashville, Tennessee; Big 12 in Kansas City, Missouri; Pac-12 in Las Vegas; and the ACC in Greensboro, North Carolina, in some other arena that will host the first NCAA circular games next week.
At acc, Florida State and Clemson were on the court warming up for the first game of a quadruple in the lead when it was announced that no games would be played.
The most sensible seed in the state of Florida won the league championship trophy in a rite with Commissioner John Swofford in an almost empty arena.
It’s another kind of March craziness.
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