
Covid prevented last year's NCAA tourneys. Now organizers have plans for a successful Big Dance
CNN
A year ago we were left with empty courts and empty brackets. Just as men's college basketball conference tournaments jumped into action, officials shut them down. Players were sent back to campus wondering if they needed to pack up and head home.
There was no March Madness. The US was just beginning to embrace how serious the coronavirus pandemic was. When several conferences called off their postseason events on March 12, the World Health Organization had just declared a pandemic and the NBA had suspended its season. At that point, here were about 1,650 cases and 41 deaths total in the US.
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