There will be no NCAA tournament brackets in 2020.
Even after both the men’s and women’s basketball tournaments were canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic, some held out hope that a formal bracket would still be released. But that will not come to fruition.
Dan Gavitt, the NCAA’s senior vice president of basketball, explained why the NCAA came to that decision in a statement released on what would have been Selection Sunday. Because so many conference tournaments — the winners of which receive automatic bids to the NCAA tournament — went unplayed, Gavitt said it would not have been responsible to assemble a bracket without those results.