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March Madness 2020 will be played without fans because of coronavirus
NY Post ^ | March 11, 2020 | 4:37pm | Post Sports Desk

Posted on 03/11/2020 2:15:17 PM PDT by conservative98

March Madness 2020 will be unlike any NCAA Tournament ever.

The NCAA announced on Wednesday that both the men’s and women’s NCAA basketball tournaments will be played without fans after consulting with its coronavirus advisory panel.

“Based on [the panel’s] advice and my discussions with the NCAA Board of Governors, I have made the decision to conduct our upcoming championship events, including the Division I men’s and women’s basketball tournaments, with only essential staff and limited family attendance,” NCAA president Mark Emmert said in a statement.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Sports
KEYWORDS: basketball; cancelcoulture; cancelculture; communityspread; coronavirus; covid19; lemmings; marchmadness; ncaa
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1 posted on 03/11/2020 2:15:17 PM PDT by conservative98
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To: conservative98

Ya know, come election day it will be safer to vote from home electronically than gather at voting booths where the virus can spread.


2 posted on 03/11/2020 2:17:16 PM PDT by Skooz (Gabba Gabba accept you we accept you one of us Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us)
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To: conservative98

As I understand, seat tickets are still a big part of the revenue for the NCAA tournament.

That’s gonna hurt.


3 posted on 03/11/2020 2:17:18 PM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: conservative98

Coronavirus has created its own version of March Madness. (govt., media, democrat insanity)


4 posted on 03/11/2020 2:17:39 PM PDT by Parmy
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To: conservative98

NCAA President Mark Emmert statement on limiting attendance at NCAA events: https://t.co/TIHHJjdse5 pic.twitter.com/8I1HdceDfN— NCAA (@NCAA) March 11, 2020


5 posted on 03/11/2020 2:18:11 PM PDT by conservative98
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To: conservative98

I wish I was a basketball player, they are apparently immune to the corona virus.


6 posted on 03/11/2020 2:19:47 PM PDT by Yogafist
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To: Skooz

“Ya know, come election day it will be safer to vote from home electronically than gather at voting booths where the virus can spread.”

So we lose due to electronic hacking of the vote.


7 posted on 03/11/2020 2:19:58 PM PDT by George from New England (escaped CT in 2006, now living north of Tampa)
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To: George from New England
So we lose due to electronic hacking of the vote.

That's the idea.

8 posted on 03/11/2020 2:22:46 PM PDT by Skooz (Gabba Gabba accept you we accept you one of us Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us)
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To: Yogafist

The players will just pass out due to the fumes from over-disinfecting the court, seats, locker rooms, rest rooms, and basketballs.


9 posted on 03/11/2020 2:23:01 PM PDT by CatOwner
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don’t care about this ethnic sport... (jk)

they better not cancel college football.


10 posted on 03/11/2020 2:27:09 PM PDT by VAFreedom (maybe i should take a nap before work)
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To: conservative98

Why do I sense that this is the Deep State making their big move to destroy Western Civilization as we know it? I sense this is more a political and sociological coup against the current economic structure, and to be honest, we will have to get on top of the paranoia before it gets out of hand. This is going to turn out to be Donald Trump’s and even Nigel Farage’s biggest challenge, perhaps the biggest challenge of any human in history.


11 posted on 03/11/2020 2:30:26 PM PDT by GOP Congress
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To: lepton

The losses will be in the millions.


12 posted on 03/11/2020 2:31:02 PM PDT by darkangel82
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To: GOP Congress

More like “we don’t want to be sued out of existence” if someone gets the virus at the stadium.


13 posted on 03/11/2020 2:33:24 PM PDT by kaktuskid
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To: lepton

The flip side is that advertising rates on TV may go through the roof over this.


14 posted on 03/11/2020 2:34:00 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("Oh, but it's hard to live by the rules; I never could and still never do.")
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To: GOP Congress

“Why do I sense that this is the Deep State making their big move to destroy Western Civilization as we know it?”

Well, you asked: Paranoia


15 posted on 03/11/2020 2:34:01 PM PDT by be-baw
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To: kaktuskid
B I N G O !
16 posted on 03/11/2020 2:36:43 PM PDT by Roccus (Prima di ogni altra cosa, siate armati!)
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To: GOP Congress

Coronavirus may be insurance policy #3.


17 posted on 03/11/2020 2:43:28 PM PDT by conservative98
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To: Skooz
I think we should postpone the election for such time that allows stabilizing both the economy and medical testing/treatment status while dealing with this unprecedented issue...at least four years.

...then watch and wait for the conjurors of this manufactured pandemic shat their shorts in disagreement.

...then shoot them in cold blood.

18 posted on 03/11/2020 2:43:50 PM PDT by RckyRaCoCo (Please Pray For My Brother Ken)
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To: conservative98

Awesome. Congrats to the virus pumpers: America is grinding to halt. By November low info voters will think POTUS personally killed a million people.


19 posted on 03/11/2020 2:44:15 PM PDT by lodi90
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To: darkangel82

Ha Ha Ha . . . Atlanta is hosting the Final Four.


20 posted on 03/11/2020 2:44:48 PM PDT by Dacula
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