catmandoo
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posted 03-14-2020 12:41 PM
The NCAA's landmark and precedent-setting decision Thursday to cancel the 2020 NCAA Tournament brings a cold realization: there are no winners. It stinks for so many. It stinks for fans who were hoping to travel to host cities to see their favorite team compete in the postseason. It stinks for players who busted their butt, constantly juggling academics and athletics throughout the season for an opportunity to be in the March Madness mix. It stinks for coaches, who recruited players years in advance, navigated the grueling season and positioned themselves and their teams to be among the field of 68 come Selection Sunday.
It stinks for host sites, which will miss out on an unknown-but-surely-beneficial economic boom. And it stinks even for the NCAA, which dragged its feet but eventually decided -- like the NBA and other major sports across the country -- that moving forward by playing games was simply not feasible.----It all stinks.
Of course, it's not all doom and gloom. That the NCAA chose to cancel the tournament amid coronavirus outbreaks across the country shows tremendous foresight. It protects all those who surely are hurt and frustrated by the decision. But the reward of the decision is that the risk of not cancelling the tournament will never be known. Given what we know about the virus and its spread, it could have prevented dozens of cases. Or hundreds. Or thousands.
Nonetheless, it's just a bummer all the way around. And here's the parties who should feel especially bummed. Unlike our weekly winners and losers column, there's only losers.
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