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Should NCAA cancel

Should men and women's NCAA basketball tournaments be canceled?

  • Yes

    Votes: 29 46.0%

  • No

    Votes: 34 54.0%
  • Total voters
    63
I don't guess everyone will just agree that South Carolina is the champion?

oh well. I was looking forward to this tournament.
 
One of the posts cited the NCAA's statement saying that it has medical specialists monitoring and-- evaluating the situation. From an epidemiological perspective the argument against spectators/crowds is a no brainer, today. So, we are left with the second part of the question-- should the games be played. The answer, playing the game, albeit, without spectators, would reduce the number of possible (and potentially) exposed people-- confining the risk to the athletes, coaches and other significant others (including hotels and workers, etc).

Of course, we could put all 64-teams and their entourages in isolation for 2+-weeks, confined them to their hotel floor before and after games and bussing them back home after a loss. So, the medico-epidemiol. reasons/concerns are simple, even trivial. It is all the others concerns we are wavering about.
 
Just my view, but I think the risk was minimal once you took the crowds out of it.

but no way to swim upstream against the other cancellations.

can't have the bad PR.
 
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MSUFan2003 said:
This is depressing. I feel really badly for the seniors. Also, there is no softball or baseball. Man, I just feel so bad for the players.
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I mean, I feel bad for seniors in general - my senior year spring was one of the best 10 weeks of my life. Online remote learning is not the same

Then again, I feel bad for working age stiffs like you and me, managing financial stress, work stress, and worrying about both older and younger generations of family for what is likely to be a prolonged period of New Normal.

And worst of all, I feel bad for our seniors. The numbers game says a large share won't make it to the end of this year. And that means the students grandparents and our parents. So really, this just freaking sucks all around. :(

Keep us updated from the front lines when you can, MSU!
 
MSUFan2003 said:
This is depressing. I feel really badly for the seniors. Also, there is no softball or baseball. Man, I just feel so bad for the players.
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You feel awful for seniors across the board in all sports. Its an awful way for them to finish their NCAA career and for most, they don't have the option to go pro. This is their final year competing the sport they grew up playing.

Gymnastics especially, that is a 4 year stretch to enjoy before retiring. I saw many of our current gymnasts thanking our fans early, and its awful to see them close that chapter in their life with no true closure. Especially not having senior night, which was tomorrow night.
 
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At least all the WCBB players got their senior nights and most got their conference tournament games.

I think for a lot of seniors both athletes and not the end of their senior year is going to be a downer with them not staying on campus and hanging out with friends. It is usually a pretty special spring, this year not so much.
 
I had initially voted no on the poll. However I have been dealing with this fairly extensively the last couple of days. Right now cancelling is really the only decision that could be made. The best analogy I found regarding how fast this can spread is the following: if you have an Olympic size swimming pool and place one marble in the bottom and then double the amount every day how full of marbles is the pool the day before it is full. The answer of course is half the pool. In other words what looked like it was growing slowly will then explode at the end. Right now we’re still in the early stages but if you think about it a few weeks ago we didn’t even know this existed (the first case in retrospect was in December 2019) and we’re now at the point of shutting down basically all large gatherings.
 
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Plebe said:
Either canceled or postponed a year or two. Postponement would be a huge mess, though.
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All the money and resources that poured going into preparing that :eek:
 
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SECbbfan24 said:
All the money and resources that poured going into preparing that :eek:
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That’s why I think postponement is more likely. At least to recoup some of that investment. But it will wreak havoc on the international sports calendars that are built around a quadrennial timetable. Not sure how they can resolve that.
 
MSUFan2003 said:
This is depressing. I feel really badly for the seniors. Also, there is no softball or baseball. Man, I just feel so bad for the players.
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or tennis. or golf. or track and field. Lots of student athletes will be affected by this. Some college towns are about to take some MAJOR financial hits.
 


Not sure about basketball considering men and women played full regular seasons. Baseball and softball didn’t even get to conference play.
 
SECbbfan24 said:


Not sure about basketball considering men and women played full regular seasons. Baseball and softball didn’t even get to conference play.
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I'm pretty sure basketball is classified as a 'winter' sport, so not included in this?
 
Plebe said:
I'm pretty sure basketball is classified as a 'winter' sport, so not included in this?
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Wasn’t sure what they meant by working on issues for the winter sport athletes.

I’m interested in how the NCAA handles this entire thing. The logistics of it all is complex.
 
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Plebe said:
Unless they can quickly come up with a way to quickly test all players, staff, officials etc. who will be coming into close proximity with each other, I don't see how they can justify a decision to move forward. And the availability and timeliness of testing is a major problem.

www.politico.com

Exclusive: U.S. coronavirus testing threatened by shortage of critical lab materials

The slow pace of coronavirus testing has created a major gap in the U.S. public health response.
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The post from @Plebe that foretold the likely fate of the NCAA tourney is above. It came hours before the Gobert confirmed case, the nail that sealed the tourney's coffin for 2020. Many of us were hoping that Plebe wasn't right with his prediction. Unfortunately, he was. Again....

Another reason why I turn to this message board first when attempting to find out what is going on with WBB. There really isn't any other board that rivals this one for breaking info and shared knowledge re: WBB.
 
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WestCoast said:
The post from @Plebe that foretold the likely fate of the NCAA tourney is above. It came hours before the Gobert confirmed case, the nail that sealed the tourney's coffin for 2020. Many of us were hoping that Plebe wasn't right with his prediction. Unfortunately, he was. Again....

Another reason why I turn to this message board first when attempting to find out what is going on with WBB. There really isn't any other board that rivals this one for breaking info and shared l knowledge re: WBB.
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Seems like an eternity ago at this point.

I can hardly claim credit. It was @TheFarmFan who splashed the water on my face two days before that, on Monday, March 9, after authorities in the Bay Area banned large gatherings:

the-boneyard.com

Stanford May have a Problem Hosting

Santa Clara County just banded gatherings of 1000 people or more Stanford is in Santa Clara County Will they host with a crowd of under 1K or move https://sports.yahoo.com/county-ban-large-gatherings-could-impact-sharks-stanford-034550721--nhl.html
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To think that this would represent the time line for packing for travel to the second weekend of tournament play - not many people voluntarily traveling anywhere at this moment. How quickly the perception of the world around us changes.

And I think we also owe Adam Silver and the NBA a debt - their immediate decisive response to one player testing positive helped wake a nation from denial.

In a strange way, that men's coach leaving a B1G tournament game and heading to hospital and his team sitting in quarantine while he was tested was another defining moment, even though he 'just' had the flu.

The flu may still be ranked as the deadliest disease this year in pure numbers, but we are so used to it that we thing nothing of spreading it by continue to work when we are ill.
 
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