Ivy League Cancels Basketball Season

[The Big East]

I think this is a huge over reaction and grossly unfair to these kids who have worked their whole life for this opportunity.

No reason they can’t play games in empty gyms.

https://247sports.com/college/marquette/board/104085/Contents/ivy-league-cancels-basketball-season--154658027/

[Galway Eagle]

Umm it's the IVY league, if you're  concerned about basketball after getting a free IVY education you've got something wrong with you.

Also saw a graph today that showed the current spike vs the spike during the shutdown and it's currently much much worse but yeah now it's an overreaction after thousands and thousands have died

[The Big East]

Umm it's the IVY league, if you're  concerned about basketball after getting a free IVY education you've got something wrong with you.

Also saw a graph today that showed the current spike vs the spike during the shutdown and it's currently much much worse but yeah now it's an overreaction after thousands and thousands have died

I thought it was a mistake to cancel last season as well. Could have finished out the conference tournaments and held the NCAA on an empty gym basis.

[wadesworld]

Why worry about a global pandemic when you can entertain people and make $0.00 doing it?

[Galway Eagle]

I thought it was a mistake to cancel last season as well. Could have finished out the conference tournaments and held the NCAA on an empty gym basis.

Go to the White House maskless and tell all your friends. Maybe a week later you can post about how right you were from the icu

[brewcity77]

Go to the White House maskless and tell all your friends. Maybe a week later you can post about how right you were from the icu

Or, like Herman Cain, your family can post for you.

[rocky_warrior]

Lots of tensions.

Keep this about hoops (even though it's probably superbar material... But I'll take any hoops news now)

[Billy Hoyle]

Umm it's the IVY league, if you're  concerned about basketball after getting a free IVY education you've got something wrong with you.

Also saw a graph today that showed the current spike vs the spike during the shutdown and it's currently much much worse but yeah now it's an overreaction after thousands and thousands have died

Not all of them get free educations. Some pay full freight. But, many wouldn’t get an Ivy education if not for basketball.

[The Hippie Satan of Hyperbole]

The BE may have made a similar decision if it weren’t for the TV $$$.  I doubt there will be D2 or D3 championships staged in winter sports when all is said and done.

[Uncle Rico]

I think this is a huge over reaction and grossly unfair to these kids who have worked their whole life for this opportunity.

No reason they can’t play games in empty gyms.

https://247sports.com/college/marquette/board/104085/Contents/ivy-league-cancels-basketball-season--154658027/

College basketball isn’t an essential activity and they’re in school to get an education or so I thought.

College basketball is or isn’t a business.  The leagues that have a season will be the ones reinforcing it's a business

[MU Fan in Connecticut]

The BE may have made a similar decision if it weren’t for the TV $$$.  I doubt there will be D2 or D3 championships staged in winter sports when all is said and done.

The difference is the Ivy's don't need the money.  Their sports programs will still be funded and fine without playing a season.

[bilsu]

I thought it was a mistake to cancel last season as well. Could have finished out the conference tournaments and held the NCAA on an empty gym basis.

In hindsight, I agree with you on the conference tournaments. The players were already there. I do not remember any Big East players coming down with the virus in the two weeks after it was cancelled. I am not sure finishing the Big East tournament would of resulted in a lot of transmission. They could of kept the players in their hotel rooms until it was time to go to their games.

[The Hippie Satan of Hyperbole]

In hindsight, I agree with you on the conference tournaments. The players were already there. I do not remember any Big East players coming down with the virus in the two weeks after it was cancelled. I am not sure finishing the Big East tournament would of resulted in a lot of transmission. They could of kept the players in their hotel rooms until it was time to go to their games.

You’re applying November knowledge to something that occurred in March.

Ultimately the BET was irrelevant anyway.

[muwarrior69]

Villanova games may be canceled in Philly?

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/philadelphia-officials-may-ban-indoor-dining-impose-other-new-restrictions-as-case-numbers-keep-rising/ar-BB1b08MN?ocid=msedgntp

[Billy Hoyle]

The difference is the Ivy's don't need the money.  Their sports programs will still be funded and fine without playing a season.

Ivy programs don’t have the budgets people think. There is a huge disconnect between athletic departments and university administration. Brown is cutting sports.

[brewcity77]

Villanova games may be canceled in Philly?

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/philadelphia-officials-may-ban-indoor-dining-impose-other-new-restrictions-as-case-numbers-keep-rising/ar-BB1b08MN?ocid=msedgntp

This may actually not affect Villanova. The town of Villanova is a suburb of Philadelphia and located in Delaware County as opposed to the city proper, which is in Philadelphia County. They would have to play all their games at the Finneran Pavilion, but I imagine that's the plan this year anyway.

[bilsu]

You’re applying November knowledge to something that occurred in March.

Ultimately the BET was irrelevant anyway.

I did say in hindsight.

[injuryBug]

The BE may have made a similar decision if it weren’t for the TV $$$.  I doubt there will be D2 or D3 championships staged in winter sports when all is said and done.

My son was just on a recruiting visit to a private D3 in WI and the message was they will probably not play this year.  Testing at over $100 per test for 20 player 3x per week is just too costly for D3 programs and I would guess many D2 schools as well.
NAIA schools already have up to 6 games in they operate under different rules

[Billy Hoyle]

My son was just on a recruiting visit to a private D3 in WI and the message was they will probably not play this year.  Testing at over $100 per test for 20 player 3x per week is just too costly for D3 programs and I would guess many D2 schools as well.
NAIA schools already have up to 6 games in they operate under different rules

The GNAC D2 conference will only have four of 10 schools competing in basketball. Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Alaska, and British Columbia schools.

[D'Lo Brown]

Why worry about a global pandemic when you can entertain people and make $0.00 doing it?

Can't the players opt out & keep their scholarship? They can choose as they want. The truth is that college basketball players, as with the vast majority of people aged 18-21, are minimally concerned.

[4everwarriors]

Woodant bee a shocker if da college basketball season goes belly up, hey?

[wadesworld]

Can't the players opt out & keep their scholarship? They can choose as they want. The truth is that college basketball players, as with the vast majority of people aged 18-21, are minimally concerned.

And that’s why we’re approaching 200,000 cases every day in this country. Wild.

[The Hippie Satan of Hyperbole]

Can't the players opt out & keep their scholarship? They can choose as they want. The truth is that college basketball players, as with the vast majority of people aged 18-21, are minimally concerned.

I can’t believe eight months into this that people STILL say sh*t like this.

[The Hippie Satan of Hyperbole]

Woodant bee a shocker if da college basketball season goes belly up, hey?

Pitino might be right that delaying the start of the season may be a good idea.

[4everwarriors]

The sooner the vaccine is available, and utilized, the sooner life gets back to a semblance of normalcy. Warp speed, aina?