Cancel the tournament
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March Madness with no fans > No March Madness... in my opinion
CBS sports said everything is on the table, including moving to smaller arenas, or cancelling all together
Don't like it but, IMO, they have to go with no fans.
That would be so unfair to the players, man.
If they aren’t allowing fans, just play the damn thing in a big AAU complex with 10 courts. What’s the point of putting these guys in planes and taking them all over the country for these games? Just do it in a single location. It’ll be over in a week
It’ll be the biggest viewed sports tourney in history... One big semi closed scrimmage for it all... how weird!
Because the NCAA wants the max amount of TV dollars they can squeeze out of the tournament.
Oh here I thought they were doing this for safety
I think the players should be asked if to cancel or not. Yes it will be weird with no fans as sport only exists because of fans. But this is possibly a chance of a lifetime for a few of these players. Let the players vote and decide what to do with the tournament.
How about cancelling the Big Ten tournament -- it is not as important as the NCAA tournament.
I wonder which way Nebraska and ISU players would vote......
Maybe this is dumb to think about but this is where my IT brain is at...
The increase in TV viewership makes me wonder how the internet streaming services - or example YouTube tv, etc. - will handle the increase in traffic load. The Google cloud servers probably can but maybe not the smaller Sling TVs and others.
The increase in TV viewership makes me wonder how the internet streaming services - or example YouTube tv, etc. - will handle the increase in traffic load. The Google cloud servers probably can but maybe not the smaller Sling TVs and others.
The total amount of people that go the games is minuscule compared to people that watch. Nothing will be affected viewership wise.
They’ve already been robbed of the experience by the NCAA. Sure, we’ll watch on tv, but these games will look/feel like scrimmages for the players
I disagree , would still enjoy watching the games on TV even if fans aren't present. No reason to cancel it.
29 years...
Rutgers has waited 29 freaking years to get back in the tourney. I just want to hear Rutgers selected before the tourney gets canceled
The RU Screw is real and God truly hates Rutgers.
Rutgers has waited 29 freaking years to get back in the tourney. I just want to hear Rutgers selected before the tourney gets canceled
The RU Screw is real and God truly hates Rutgers.
I'm sure if you were a player and given the choice of playing in an empty stadium or not playing especially if you are a senior I'm sure you'd be willing to play.
Now that the NBA suspended there is zero chance the tourney doesn’t get cancelled
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Not saying it is or isn't but based on the what has occurred in the last 1/2 day just don't see it happening. At least not next week.
TBD
I would guess no games for a few weeks minimum. How can you lets amateurs play though?
why not?
there will be less people around the games than they'll see in class, so what's the difference?
i get not allowing fans in, but cancelling it just doesn't make any sense unless we go close down everything and everyone is quarantined
It's probably becoming a logistical nightmare. How many contingencies are going to be needed to run this thing? What happens if a player, coach, ref gets sick? It isn't about just playing all of these factors and 100 more will need to be answered before teams travel.
the refs are at no more risk than any other person that travels for work, those folks are still doing their jobs.
I assume the players don't travel with the public.
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