The 2020 NCAA men's basketball tournament has been canceled over concerns of the spreading coronavirus.
"Today, NCAA president Mark Emmert and the board of governors canceled the Division I men's and women's 2020 basketball tournaments, as well as all remaining winter and spring NCAA championships," the NCAA announced.
The cancellation affects all NCAA championships in the winter and spring, including the women's basketball tournament, College World Series, Women's College World Series and NCAA wrestling championships, among others. It comes just one day after the NCAA announced that it would go on with the "We are fully supportive of the NCAA's decision to cancel this year's NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship," read a joint statement from CBS Sports and Turner Sports.
In the aftermath of that decision -- effectively an unprecedented no-spectator policy for March Madness -- conferences across the country began following suit by implementing a no-spectator policy. All seven major conferences in the sport announced shortly thereafter that postseason tournaments would proceed as scheduled with only student-athletes, coaches, limited family and essential personnel allowed to attend starting Thursday.
However, every major conference canceled its league basketball tournament in a sweeping set of announcements earlier Thursday. Conferences then began canceling participation of all spring sports on and off campuses.As consequential as the NCAA's decision to cancel its tournament is, it is certainly not standing alone. The
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