Three weeks ago – seems more like three years, I know – we were wondering who might win the conference basketball tournaments. Three weeks ago, all systems were go for Atlanta’s Final Four. By supper time on Wednesday, March 11, the NCAA announced it would stage March Madness sans fans. By 10 p.m. Eastern time, the NBA had suspended its season after Rudy Gobert’s positive test. By 4:30 p.m. Thursday, every conference tournament had been canceled, and so had the Big Dance.
That was the beginning of our new normal – working from home, keeping a social distance, trying not to freak out over every scary news alert on our phone.