NCAA in discussions of having 68 team tournament in Indianapolis
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It is still necessary...
1) distribution is going to take time
2) anti-vaxers
It's not a bad idea to declare one location right now. NCAA staff is all in Indy. Teams come into the city and can be there until they lose. Hopefully vaccine is in full swing by then, but college students are not the ones who need it first.
I won't touch the anti-vax comment, other than to say people aren't insane to be skeptical about a vaccine that was developed in such a short timeframe. And I'm someone who will be taking the vaccine if the data shows it to be safe.
It will be interesting to see how the scheduling changes. The first round is usually 32 games over 2 days in 16 cities. They can spread it out over more days but they will still need more than one venue besides Bankers Fieldhouse. Lucas Oil, Hinkle, Farmers Coliseum, or the convention center? If they spread it to other Indiana cities outside of Indy like I've seen some people say then you really are removing any notion of a 'bubble'.
I wish someone would announce the regular season schedule to completion?
16 games per day. If they have four venues than that means four games per venue per day. Doesn't the Big10 have four games on one day? Not ideal, but with little/no crowds there won't be an issue of getting 15,000 people out before the next game.
And if the students are mostly online maybe no need to travel home between weekends? Expensive I guess but maybe hotel rooms are pretty cheap right now...
Found this on ESPN:
On a Monday afternoon conference call, Gavitt said the NCAA is calling the one-city idea a "controlled environment" not a "bubble." The NBA's bubble cost the league more than $150 million. The NCAA tournament will require multiple gyms, hotels, practice facilities and other venues, Gavitt said.
Although it's not a bubble, anyone who enters will be required to stay until eliminated or deciding to exit. That means the teams that make a run to the Final Four will have to stay in one location for a month.
"It will be a very controlled environment," Gavitt said. "It'll be different; it'll be historic; and it'll be hopefully something we all treasure and experience just once, hopefully not ever again."
https://www.espn.com/mens-college-b...entire-men-basketball-tournament-indianapolis
On a Monday afternoon conference call, Gavitt said the NCAA is calling the one-city idea a "controlled environment" not a "bubble." The NBA's bubble cost the league more than $150 million. The NCAA tournament will require multiple gyms, hotels, practice facilities and other venues, Gavitt said.
Although it's not a bubble, anyone who enters will be required to stay until eliminated or deciding to exit. That means the teams that make a run to the Final Four will have to stay in one location for a month.
"It will be a very controlled environment," Gavitt said. "It'll be different; it'll be historic; and it'll be hopefully something we all treasure and experience just once, hopefully not ever again."
https://www.espn.com/mens-college-b...entire-men-basketball-tournament-indianapolis
Yeah since I’m 28 I am not crazy about taking it. I’ll see how it goes for people that need it more than I do.
This is probably as close as they can come to a bubble; sounds like a reasonable rough draft.
In the big Football dome, you can put one basketball court in each end zone, one at each 30-yard line. Put up curtains between the courts. Limit seating to family and media. Whistles can be created with different frequencies on courts nearby to prevent stoppages between courts. The only issue would be locker rooms.
They gonna force them all in a bubble? If not that seems like a terrible idea. Just takes one moron like hoiberg for that shit to spread like crazy!
True that. I'm on the covid cautious side, 100%. That doesn't mean I forgot just how crooked big pharma is!!!
They are trying to secure 8 locations for the first 2 days....that will make it easier to schedule practice times along with games. They want teams crossing paths with each other as little as possible and more locations makes it easier to assign a locker room to a certain team for the duration of their time at that locale.
They are planning on asking teams to come to stadium dressed and prepped as much as possible for games and to leave immediately afterwards and return to their hotels and do post-game stuff there. The less they are on site the better.
Each hotel would have a media area where players and coaches could do interviews virtually.
Teams would NOT be leaving once they get there...to many things occur outside of the NCAAs control at that point.
Wrong. Having 4 courts going simultaneously like a massive junior high tournament but with special frequency whistles makes more sense.
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