Say Goodbye to March Madness Brackets 2020

This sucks for the student athletes who practiced and played all season to get a bid into the tournament. It is not yet official, but WWE Wrestlemania will likely be cancelled too.

The 2 best gambling days every year are the firat round of the tourney. 32 games of betting bliss. Oh well, 2 more work days.

@Sinclair Agree, getting frequent alerts from local paper about CORVID-19 consequences including players lamenting lost playing opportunities. With prevailing tension and fears surrounding the virus any lost opportunities for diversion, even by remote viewing only adds to the misery.

I heard the tournament would still be played just without fans in the stands.

Sounds like a long shot to me.

I keep thinking - if they close the office - at least I can work from home - and catch the NCAA tournament while I work. Then I remember - it’s not happening.

Then I think - at least there’s sports center. But that’s gonna be useless too.

I think the only things that haven't been cancelled are NASCAR and UFC. As far as WrestleMania, I think neither Vince nor Tampa wants to be the one to cancel it but that Tampa will if Vince doesn't within the week they essentially gave him.

Been occupied so many of you may already know this: "No March Madness: NCAA cancels all winter and spring tournaments, including basketball

The college basketball season ended on Thursday, a month before the national championship games were scheduled to be played.

The NCAA canceled its men’s and women’s tournaments, issuing this statement:

“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 championships.

“This decision is based on the evolving COVID-19 public health threat, our ability to ensure the events do not contribute to spread of the pandemic, and the impracticality of hosting such events at any time this academic year given ongoing decisions by other entities.”

The men’s Final Four was scheduled for Atlanta and the women’s Final Four in New Orleans. Among the eight men’s first-and second-round regional sites were St. Louis and Omaha, Nebraska.

With winter and spring sports off the calendar, there will be no championships for wrestling, ice hockey, track and field, the College World Series for baseball in Omaha and Women’s College World Series for softball in Oklahoma City.

The cancellation also includes Division II events, including regional tournaments scheduled to start Friday for men’s basketball at Northwest Missouri State, the defending national champion, and women’s basketball at the University of Central Missouri.

But the biggest showcase event in NCAA sports is March Madness, played every year since 1939.

WWE did this before youtu.be

Man - over a 1000 people have died in Italy from Covid-19 with 15,000 confirmed cases - that's a lot more deaths than I thought

No March Madness, no baseball, no NBA, no XFL. Where will it all end ? What am I going to watch on TV ? Reruns of Two and a Half Men ?

Netflix- I recommend Babylon Berlin

NASCAR postponed races, so now it's just UFC.

As Warrior alluded to, I want to see how ESPN fills all this airtime they're about to have...and it better not all be First Take an Get Up, like it is today.

Papi - 23% of all Italians are older than 65. The oldest population in Italy with almost 1/3 over 60. Staistically it makes sense.

I really could not care less.

I imagine some of the sports networks may start showing classic games from the past?

I like watching sports documentaries - I'll probably catch-up on some of the ESPN 30-for-30 docs that I have not watched (there are about 80 in total) - they're viewable via ESPN+, but perhaps via regular ESPN website also?

I recently watched a Netflix Formula-1 special where they go thru the 2018, and 2019 season (each season is 6 episodes) - it was good if one is into that.

A while back I also watched a doc on Moto-GP which was very good -I don't recall what service it was may have been NetFlix.

Solitaire is going to make a comeback 🙃

Amazing no one is closing casinos.

"Solitaire is going to make a comeback"

Masturbation ha s already made a comeback!

SJG