The Ball State men's basketball season ended with so many "what if's."
Hopes were high that Thursday in Cleveland. BSU had won four of its last five games, smashed Northern Illinois on the road in the regular season finale to earn a share of another MAC West Division championship and entered the MAC Tournament seeded third.
The Cardinals had gone through their morning shootaround at Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse and were nine hours from tipping off in the quarterfinals against Kent State. That's when everything came to a screeching halt.
With concerns about the spread of COVID-19 growing by the hour, and with leagues around the country doing the same, the tournament was canceled before it began.