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Ivy League Cancels Conference Tournament

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shadow force

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Minutes earlier, Donahue had heard from administrators that the Ivy League men’s and women’s basketball tournaments were being canceled as a coronavirus-related precaution. That regular-season champion Yale would be going to the NCAA tournament. That Penn, Princeton and Harvard, who felt they had a shot at the league’s auto-bid, no longer did.

And just like that, careers ended.

There was no need to practice.

No way for senior guard Devon Goodman, stuck on 998 career points, to get 999 and 1,000.

No way, for a few of those seniors, to ever play organized basketball again.
 
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shadow force said:
Minutes earlier, Donahue had heard from administrators that the Ivy League men’s and women’s basketball tournaments were being canceled as a coronavirus-related precaution. That regular-season champion Yale would be going to the NCAA tournament. That Penn, Princeton and Harvard, who felt they had a shot at the league’s auto-bid, no longer did.

And just like that, careers ended.

There was no need to practice.

No way for senior guard Devon Goodman, stuck on 998 career points, to get 999 and 1,000.

No way, for a few of those seniors, to ever play organized basketball again.
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Like Milt Wagner said year’s ago when our first tournament game was Drexel...ain’t that one them academic schools?

Social media has taken over our lives. Dear God, please save us!
 
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KozmasAgain

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I agree why not play the tournament with nobody in the arena? I saw this on ESPN and I can’t remember what Coach it was but one of the women’s coach in the Ivy League accused the conference of hypocrisy. So maybe there was some politics involved.
 
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It’s a bit of an overreaction, but those school administrators of the Ivy League, presumably, they are pretty intelligent. It’s perhaps a case of they know something we don’t.
 
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Cancelling the tourney at first glance seems ludicrous and overblown. However what these sharp Ivy Leaguers are recognizing is that it is paramount to “flatten the curve” in terms of the spread of this pandemic. There is a high likelihood that cases will grow exponentially. The biggest risk is what is happening in Italy, where the quick spread has overwhelmed the medical infrastructure. If there is a sharp sudden spike, we could be in a scenario where we overwhelm ICU’s, run out of ventilators, and flood our ER’s with infected patients. The Ivy League folks can see that hotels, buses, airplanes and dorms are prime spots for transmission of the virus.
 
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Rollem Cards

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And all these people who are NOT going to tournaments, school, concerts, or anywhere else, are going to stay home and go nowhere for two weeks.

Ok. :confused:o_O:rolleyes:
 
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