A Year of No Champion

Ty Bolton

            As we all know, this year’s March Madness tournament was cancelled due to the outbreak of the corona virus. As the disease was spreading more rapidly in the United States, the NCAA decided to put a halt to all collegiate sports, and even canceling the rest of the seasons of winter sports. It is upsetting for seniors or for players that are good enough to go to the league next year. These players didn’t get their shot at a NCAA championship and for the seniors, it was their last chance to achieve that goal. At first the NCAA was trying to compromise, by still having the games, but only the essential people would be allowed to be in the arena. That only worked for a couple of games during the conference tournaments, before coming to the decision to cancel the big tournament. A lot of athletes have tested positive for the corona virus, so it was in the best interest of the athletes, staff, and fans to have the tournament canceled this year.

            We will never officially know the outcome of this year’s bracket, there were too many conference tournaments to be finished to determine the bracket. There were also multiple teams on the bubble of making it into the field of play, Indiana being one of those teams. Some of the conference games left, also would determine the seeding for some teams. For example, Louisville was looking at a four or five seed before the ACC tournament, but if they would have won out the conference tournament, they could have been looking at a two or three seed. It’s not much of a difference in numbers, but can effect where they will be playing at and who will be in their path on the way to the final four. We’ll never have a champion for the 2020 season, but this will make the 2021 season much more exciting.