Coronavirus: Tracking conference tournament, March Madness scheduling changes
Tracking college basketball scheduling changes due to coronavirus.
Eli Boettger | @boettger_eli | 03/10/2020
The potential spreading of coronavirus (COVID-19) has now impacted March’s college basketball calendar.
Below is a stream of the latest updates to conference tournaments and March Madness scheduling due to coronavirus.
UPDATES
Tuesday, March 10
The Ivy League has announced it will cancel its conference tournament entirely, awarding the conference’s automatic bid to Yale.
The Ivy League has decided to cancel the League's upcoming Basketball Tournaments and implement highly-restrictive, in-venue spectator limitations for all other upcoming campus athletics events.
» http://ivylg.co/Coronavirus
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The NCAA has announced that it “will make decisions in the coming days” in regards to NCAA championship events.
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NCAA statement on COVID-19 and sporting events: http://on.ncaa.com/mrmfh
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Statement on COVID-19 and NCAA championship events: http://on.ncaa.com/lzxw5
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The Big West has announced that its tournament will proceed without spectators.
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The Big West Conference has announced that the league's basketball tournaments will be played without spectators as a precaution for preventing the spread of the COVID-19 virus.
» http://bit.ly/2Q3XAkO
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The MAC has announced that its tournament will proceed without spectators.
Official statement regarding upcoming MAC Men's and Women's Basketball Tournament
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This story will continue to be updated on HeatCheckCBB.
Eli Boettger is a college basketball writer and founder of HeatCheckCBB.com. He has previously worked for Sporting News, DAZN and USA TODAY SMG.
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