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Message: [QUOTE="hjoerring, post: 3476793, member: 3630"] 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. [/QUOTE]