Big Ten Basketball Tournament - Cancelled
March 12th, 2020 at 11:48 AM ^
Still undefeated against Rutgers!
March 12th, 2020 at 11:51 AM ^
Season sweep! LFG!
March 12th, 2020 at 11:48 AM ^
Fuckity shit fuck ... good call but I’m so sad about this and completely relieved at the same time.
March 12th, 2020 at 11:48 AM ^
I'm guessing the same is soon to be the case for the hockey tournament as well... possibly the NCAA tournaments too.
March 12th, 2020 at 11:54 AM ^
Yes, the dominos are falling.
March 12th, 2020 at 11:59 AM ^
If the NCAA tournament (hockey) gets cancelled, I guess that renders moot my question about what effect the cancellation of the Big Ten Tournament (hockey) will have on our pairwise ranking...
Good season boys. Looking forward to next year. Grab those agents and start your summer workouts.
March 12th, 2020 at 12:06 PM ^
Just play the tournament in May right after the combine. If you can cancel an entire 68 team tournament, you can definitely move the draft to a later date if that is even necessary.
March 12th, 2020 at 12:13 PM ^
The NBA won't give a rats ass about whatever the NCAA thinks the draft should be held. If they (NCAA) move the tourney, I bet the NBA still doesn't change the draft date.
March 12th, 2020 at 12:19 PM ^
The draft will need to be pushed back to accommodate the end of the NBA season, if they resume the season.
I have to believe that Z and Teske have played their last game in the Maize and Blue. Thank you boys for all the great memories. Michigan men forever! Go Blue!
March 12th, 2020 at 12:10 PM ^
I dunno seems with the giant off-campus hockey venues there should be plenty of social distancing between all fans in attendance. /s
March 12th, 2020 at 11:49 AM ^
What the hell were they waiting for. This is so stupid, suspend all of March Madness. Mark Emmert is an idiot. Screw the money.
March 12th, 2020 at 12:36 PM ^
I would expect an announcement soon. It's not like anyone is making travel plans before Sunday at least.
This might be an unpopular opinion, but when I was that age I'd have been ticked off to lose the opportunity to compete and participate in the different tournaments. Not saying that cancelling is the wrong thing to do from an overall health and safety point of view, but I feel bad for the athletes losing their shot and for all the hourly workers who now lose out on wages from not working these games.
March 12th, 2020 at 11:50 AM ^
Tip-Off Show on BTN still acting like nothing is different and showing shoot around still going on?
EDIT: And 60 seconds later, they make the announcement.
March 12th, 2020 at 11:50 AM ^
Really poor handling by the conference? Probably shouldn't have ever started it if you're going to do this. Easy to say in hindsight but could have easily made the decision Tuesday.
March 12th, 2020 at 12:09 PM ^
It took Rudy Gobert and especially Fred Hoiberg to have them realize there was no way to safely pull this off.
If some player gets to the B1G Finals (or, especially, the Final Four), you think he's going to sit out if he's feeling under the weather? Hell, no.
March 12th, 2020 at 12:22 PM ^
Rudy Gobert testing positive was a game-changer, and that was late-breaking news. There are plenty of reasons to criticize the B1G, but there was quite a flurry of activity yesterday and the B1G Tournament was just one of many dominoes to fall.
March 12th, 2020 at 12:23 PM ^
Easy to say in hindsight
Key phrase right there. Given that, as of Tuesday, the NBA games were still happening, nobody else had made a move, and the logistics to get these things set up had already been done, I'm not surprised it wasn't cancelled earlier. People are reactive, especially with this kind of money and planning on the line.
At the end of the day, this was the right decision.
March 12th, 2020 at 11:51 AM ^
Welp.
March 12th, 2020 at 11:51 AM ^
What the hell were they waiting for. This is so stupid, suspend all of March Madness. Mark Emmert is an idiot. Screw the money.
March 12th, 2020 at 11:51 AM ^
2020: The year without sports
Looking on the bright side, if the college football season is canceled, we won't lose to Ohio State.
March 12th, 2020 at 11:53 AM ^
avatar checks out
March 12th, 2020 at 11:53 AM ^
the problem for sports will be when people realize that life goes on without them
March 12th, 2020 at 11:59 AM ^
They'll still have Twitter to live and die by.
March 12th, 2020 at 12:56 PM ^
Most of my sports watching is actually reliving old Michigan triumphs on YouTube anyway.
March 12th, 2020 at 11:59 AM ^
#Coronapocalypse
March 12th, 2020 at 11:54 AM ^
Seems just a matter of time before the big dance is canceled.
March 12th, 2020 at 11:59 AM ^
That will be the next "Breaking News" story. If a major conference like the B1G cancels it's tourny, the other major conferences will/are doing the same.
Good bye Big Dance for 2020.
March 12th, 2020 at 12:29 PM ^
Since it is such new news at this hour, no one seems to have considered the effects of this on the budgets of various Big 10 colleges. If the NCAA tournament is cancelled, it will most certainly cause some athletic depts to be working in the red and who knows where that will lead. Could be the first domino in some big changes to intercollegiate sports. Not sure it could be postponed to a later date, given the involvement of TV networks in other summer activities, etc., not to mention the students' and staffs' schedules. God help us basketball fans!
March 12th, 2020 at 11:54 AM ^
Well now I hope I get the corona because I do not wish to live in a world with no bball tourney. Strike me down now oh great Zarathushtra.
March 12th, 2020 at 11:56 AM ^
Seems as if you've already had Zika.
March 12th, 2020 at 12:07 PM ^
Im more of a Zima guy, ahhhhhhh refreshing Zima.
March 12th, 2020 at 12:09 PM ^
Is that you Big Cat?
March 12th, 2020 at 11:56 AM ^
Talk about a last minute decision, during the shoot around. That says it all.
March 12th, 2020 at 11:57 AM ^
so, so stupid
March 12th, 2020 at 11:56 AM ^
ACC commish says the virus won't stop them, they are playing on. Fools, all about the egos.
March 12th, 2020 at 12:21 PM ^
ACC just cancelled, too.
March 12th, 2020 at 11:56 AM ^
By 5:00 today the NCAA Tournament will be cancelled
March 12th, 2020 at 11:57 AM ^
Should have been cancelled last night. Teams shouldn’t have been made to show up and go through warm ups.
March 12th, 2020 at 11:59 AM ^
Nothing like waiting until the very last possible minute
March 12th, 2020 at 11:59 AM ^
Whew! Good thing I ordered my beer before I saw it on the TV. Guess I better drink it then head back to the office. After lunch of course.
March 12th, 2020 at 11:59 AM ^
And this was the year Penn State and Rutgers were finally going to get into the NCAA Tourney too...
March 12th, 2020 at 12:18 PM ^
It was also the year Izzo was finally getting that second title!
-Spartan Dawg Nation
March 12th, 2020 at 11:59 AM ^
Once the NBA suspended this was inevitable. The Utah Jazz showed exactly what is going to happen and why they are going to cancel the NCAA tournament too. Some prominent team is going to have a player get sick, which then will trigger a cascading wave of quarantines that takes out half the teams in the tournament. Even if you ignore player safety, it is going to become almost impossible to complete the tournament. The winner will simply be the team that is lucky enough to neither get a sick player nor play a team with a sick player in the next month. And they probably would win the Final Four by forfeit.
March 12th, 2020 at 12:21 PM ^
That would make for some rather morbid prop bets.
March 12th, 2020 at 12:00 PM ^
ACC commish says the virus won't stop them, they are playing on. Fools, all about the egos.
March 12th, 2020 at 12:06 PM ^
They won't be far behind. The AAC, B1G, Big 12 and SEC have all cancelled.
March 12th, 2020 at 12:00 PM ^
Anything but March Madness!! Please!!!!!!!
It's a television event anyway. Test the few people in the stadium and Dance!!
March 12th, 2020 at 12:10 PM ^
March Madness is getting cancelled. And at this point it should be cancelled.
Main reason being the obvious of not wanting people to get infected, but if the Adam Silver is going to suspend the NBA season and force professional multi-millionaires to stop playing, but Mark Emmert still forces amateur college kids onto the floor who aren't getting paid, he's going to get absolutely crucified.
I hate it too, man. The first weekend of March Madness is the best sports weekend of the year