There will be no NCAA champion, no Final Four, no March Madness at all, as the coronavirus on Thursday dealt a deadly blow to college basketball’s men’s and women’s tournaments and put the rest of American sports on life support.
Major League Baseball, the National Hockey League and a slew of other leagues announced the suspensions of their seasons and the NCAA, which had planned to stage games in empty arenas, decided instead to cancel March Madness altogether.
The dominoes began falling after the National Basketball Association on Wednesday hit pause on its season when one of its player tested positive for the potentially deadly bug, COVID-19.