Of all the anomalous protocols, strategies and workarounds that have been put in place to stage the N.C.A.A. basketball tournaments during the pandemic, consider what Las Vegas’s McCarran International Airport might look this weekend with charter jets lined up on the tarmac like cabs outside a LaGuardia taxi stand.
The routine will be vastly different from the usual scenes of teams celebrating the televised bracket reveals — on Sunday night for the men and Monday night for the women — and then spending a few days practicing and studying film back on their campuses before traveling to one of many sites spread all over the United States.