NCAA Tournament: Should it happen?
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How long has KU Buckets been around (I’ve been a member for only a couple of years)? I mean, man, think about it - nothing to talk about right now, but bad things…
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What really pisses me off is it was this year! Last years team sucked why not then?!? Next year KU isn’t likely to be eligible for post season play. I’m super bummed our boys best chance in years was robbed.
Will 2019-20 NCAA champions be crowned in college basketball and other sports whose championships were canceled?
The NCAA hasn’t provided a definitive answer on this, but it’s difficult to envision anything beside a simple “no.” College football crowned a champion based on polls for a number of years, so Kansas and South Carolina would win titles in men’s and women’s basketball if the NCAA decided to do it that way – but that seems unlikely. In all likelihood, there’s going to be a blank line in the college sports annals next to 2019-20.
– Jeff Borzello
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yes sir - -what chaps my ass is THIS WAS OUR YEAR. - so we get screwed this year get nothing and then next year – more likely then not we are going to be in a post season ban from the tourney - -yippee
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#Why did the NCAA cancel its championships rather than explore postponements, particularly in men’s and women’s basketball?
The NCAA was believed to be exploring options for postponement throughout the day on Thursday, but several logistical hurdles prevented this from being a viable option.
A growing number of universities around the country are closing for the foreseeable future due to this worldwide pandemic, so the lack of a defined timetable to return to campus would put the NCAA in a bind. It’s hard to send an entire campus home for a month, bring students back, have the teams practice for a week or two and then hope to start an NCAA tournament. And that’s not even accounting for the ability to secure arenas, secure travel and identify television programming windows for men’s and women’s basketball in particular. It’s a great idea in theory, but not great in practice.
There’s simply a calendar issue, too. In men’s and women’s basketball in particular, many players without remaining eligibility would be pursuing their professional options or attempting to start their post-basketball careers. The NBA is able to delay things for a few weeks and reassess, because it’s able to extend its season into the middle of the summer with no issue. It’s likely impossible to do that in any college sport, particularly one expected to end in March or early April.
– Jeff Borzello
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Allow me to answer this for you Borzello - Because the media was calling out the NCAA as dragging its feet. This forced the NCAA to cancel the tournament instead of using a couple days to fully explore all options.
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perhaps but he does have a point i mentioned on here somewhere. The players can’t practice can’t even stay together. Some of the players will have summer commitments like internships for their post college employment that if they blow off could affect them down the road. Most venues are booked months in advance if not years. Just what group loses their scheduled activities f the tourney dates are moved?
About the only viable path forward i could see would be to cancel round by round with the higher seeds moving up hoping as time goes on you could get the round of 8 or perhaps just the final 4 played somehow. While for the 1 seeds that would be a great deal for the other 60 teams it would be even more heartbreaking than canceling.
The tournament is a major logistics accomplishment and trying to move it would be a major event that in itself would take months to arrange.
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Small venues? No crowds? Nba is practicing
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@dylans There were no other options. Every sports organization realized this after the NBA guy tested positive. If there had been a reliable projection of how long the virus would continue to increase spreading, options could have been discussed. But with China taking 3 months to control the spread, the most reasonable projections are several months away. That is way beyond the ability of the NCAA to schedule anything, and then meanwhile schools would have to continue to house teams somehow while graduating athletes would normally be moving on to careers. All with the possibility of it crashing down when even one teams gets quarantined.
It happened. Life goes on–fortunately.
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@Crimsonorblue22 said in NCAA Tournament: Should it happen?:
Small venues? No crowds? Nba is practicing
might be practicing but the commissioner was saying today if they have to postpone season for 6 weeks then so be it. Actually they are discourgaging players to practice together. - -working out fine but practice together - -not so much
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It happened. Life goes on–fortunately.
It’s not - that’s why a distraction would be fantastic.
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@jayballer73 I don’t think the NBA is going to have a season this year.
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@kjayhawks Really? Who did you have winning it? What was the score?
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NBA is completely different from NCAA.
NBA has agency and player’s union. We shouldn’t look at these two groups and expect everything to go the same.
And their leagues are structured totally different for venues, insurances, etc. There are several unions involved concerning any issue with the NBA.
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There should be no more talk about postseason bans for Kansas. It should end here.
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@approxinfinity I agree but the NCAA won’t - everyone got the same punishment and KU was the “only” cheater.
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I think the NCAA will back the f down after this. Nobody is going to be calling for bloodletting. BC (Before Coronavirus) vs AD (After Da Coronavirus)
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This sucks, wife doesn’t want to go with the kiddos and this stuff going around. It’s raining so we just sitting inside with no sports to watch. 2020 officially sucks
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@drgnslayr It actually looks intimidating…We have the Truth, the Process, and Doke can become the Intimidator of college basketball. Not to barrow Dale Earnhardt Sr. from NASCAR. Could you imagine driving the lane only to meet Doke with a face mask?
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@Kubie Sorry, all cancelled. Your life is cancelled. You are confined to house quarantine. I hope I’m sounding pathetic, because as serious as this is, I believe it’s reached some ridiculous proportions.
In fact, I think we should cancel this entire website…ok, maybe not. But exaggeration is always great when trying to make a ridiculous point. Plus, I’m going through bball withdrawals. I think this is a pandemic in and of itself. I think there are proven symptoms for college bball withdrawls. I’m experiencing many of them and more to come.
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Maybe NCAA Classics? I can pretend I’m seeing it for the first time.
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I dont want to waste my time commenting on the lack of leadership from the NCAA, especially at the top.
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@Texas-Hawk-10 Plus he went and played bball with one of the local high schools here in the OKC area, Del City HS too. Apparently, he touched all the recording devices during a pre-game interview to make a point all well before his pre-game tip diagnosis. But, he was cleared a few days after his diagnosis.
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@approxinfinity said in NCAA Tournament: Should it happen?:
I think the NCAA will back the f down after this. Nobody is going to be calling for bloodletting. BC (Before Coronavirus) vs AD (After Da Coronavirus)
I want to believe, but I’m leaning toward the belief that the NCAA will readdress this as soon as they get back to business as usual. The only thing that might change that is if this rocks the institution – say the power 5 conferences decide to confer with each other and hold their own tournament of 16 in May and do it for charity and compensate the players in some way. It sets a precedent of revenue generation and sharing and erodes the NCAA’s authority… and it starts to establish a new standard…
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I thought it threw, this is worse than having Christmas canceled
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@kjayhawks said in NCAA Tournament: Should it happen?:
I thought it threw, this is worse than having Christmas canceled
still not as bad as St Paddy’s day though lol
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@jayballer73 I’m Irish and I don’t care about St. Patrick’s Day lol.
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@kjayhawks said in NCAA Tournament: Should it happen?:
@jayballer73 I’m Irish and I don’t care about St. Patrick’s Day lol.
Ya I am too - -Mom’s maiden name is McMahan - - lmao - - imagine that. Can’t get much more Irish then that. - -But you know I’ma teasin playin - -huge loss I feel so empty lol
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Hey, can anyone spare a few squares of toilet paper?
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I have a great idea (now hear me out!)… Let’s create shortages of things by buying up all of the the things that we think there might be shortages on… On a personal not, I have tp, was just making my point.
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Does this end KU’s tournament streak? What about a team like UNC who wasn’t going to make the tournament anyway, does it end their streak? It would be nice if the NCAA just released the 68 teams that made the tournament for that reason.
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@KirkIsMyHinrich Cannot miss a tournament that was not held. Our streak will just be measured in consecutive tournaments not years.
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@KirkIsMyHinrich ironically that means unc tournament steak goes on. They get a mulligan for this year. Perfect for them. The yin to our yang.
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@dylans said in NCAA Tournament: Should it happen?:
@KirkIsMyHinrich ironically that means unc tournament steak goes on. They get a mulligan for this year. Perfect for them. The yin to our yang.
Chalk it up as another in a long line of strange connections between KU and UNC.
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@truehawk93 said in NCAA Tournament: Should it happen?:
@Kubie Sorry, all cancelled. Your life is cancelled. You are confined to house quarantine. I hope I’m sounding pathetic, because as serious as this is, I believe it’s reached some ridiculous proportions.
I am actually in a hotel in Charlotte I only wish I was confined to my house!!
Work trip, for some dang reason I’m considered an essential employee you’d think they’d know better by now. Airports are about dead, you could see from one end of ATL term C to the other it was so empty. Now they have shut down dine in at all restaurants but door dash and the rest are up and going for the most part.
I will admit to being more cautious then normal and practicing good hygiene is never a bad idea.
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@jayballer73 They can take away our basketball, but they can’t take our BEER
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@Kubie It has gotten increasingly worse within the last 48-72 hrs.
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@Kubie b safe
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We’ll be okay, guys. That’s what we do, right? We beat things…
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Don’t read Lunardi’s BPI tourney simulation. It will make you puke in the 2nd round, or reading who was the 2nd favorite to win the whole thing. A hint, it rhymes with puke
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@truehawk93 Anyone not understanding why shutting down as much contact as possible is necessary needs to read this latest update on Italy at worldometers.com. Flattening the curve is important because not doing so overwhelms a healthcare system, and this happens:
Italy: COVID-19 has infected 2,629 health workers, or 8.3% of the total (more than twice the percentage in China), as of yesterday March 17. In Bergamo (Lombardy region), 118 out of about 600 family doctors (20%) have been infected, and a 65-year-old doctor has died. Today, a 57-year-old doctor has died: he was the secretary of the Federation of General Practitioners of Lodi. A week ago, a 67-year-old family doctor, president of the Varese Medical Association, had died.
