Empty arenas are bad for everyone.
They aren’t good for the fans, they aren’t good for the players, they aren’t good for atmosphere and they don’t look good on television.
Empty arenas are bad for the NCAA, but yet, they are going to have them for at least the next two years in the NCAA Hockey Tournament.
On Friday morning, the NCAA announced the regional sites for the 2020 and 2021 NCAA Tournament, once again holding them at neutral arenas rather than campus sites.
This is a mistake.
It’s time for the NCAA to move these regional games — to ditch the big arenas and play them at campus sites.