Tournament cancellations

[njhoya78]

The Big Ten Conference and Atlantic Coast Conferences have reportedly cancelled their tournaments. Details and updates to follow.

EDIT: As has the American Athletic Conference, at 11:48 am EDT.

EDIT #2: And the Southeastern Conference, at 11:49 am EDT.

EDIT #3: The MAC is delaying tipoff of the Akron/Miami (Ohio) game from 12:00 noon to 1:00 pm in Cleveland. Rutgers and Michigan were on the court in pregame warmup drills when they were called off of the court and the Big Ten Conference cancelled the tournament.

EDIT #4: The Big 12 Conference is cancelling its tournament at well, at 11:54 am EDT.

EDIT #5: Not tournament related, but Major League Soccer is shutting down for thirty days, and the National Hockey League, while not suspending operations yet, has requested teams provide arena availability information through the end of July for Stanley Cup playoff games.

EDIT #6: Add Conference-USA to the list of cancellations. Still no word from the Big East, with tipoff in one minute for Creighton/St. John's. At 11:59 am.

EDIT #7: Atlantic-10 Conference just cancelled its tournament, at 12:01 pm.

EDIT #8: The PGA will continue tournament play, but without fans. At 12:03 pm.

EDIT #9: Mid-American Conference and Western Athletic Conference have now also cancelled their tournaments. Meanwhile, the Big East plays on (?). At 12:06 pm. Also still "on" are America East, Big Sky, Big West, Metro Atlantic, Mid-eastern Athletic Pacific 12, Southland, Southwestern Athletic and Sun Belt Conferences.

EDIT #10: Pacific 12 Conference has now cancelled its tournament, at 12:20 pm EDT.

EDIT# 11: Not tournament related, but it is being reported that Major League Baseball is suspending spring training. At 12:24 pm.

EDIT #12: The Sun Belt Conference has cancelled its tournament, at 12:25 pm EDT. Still ongoing: America East, Big East, Big Sky, Big West, Metro Atlantic, Mid-Eastern Athletic, Southland and Southwestern Athletic. The Big East is the only Power 6 conference still playing a tournament. Ridiculous.

EDIT #13:  The Southland Conference joins the list of cancellations.  At 12:30 pm EDT.

EDIT #14:  The Big Sky Conference has cancelled its tournament, at 12:35 pm EDT.  Still ongoing:  America East, Big East, Big West, Metro Atlantic, Mid-Eastern Athletic and Southwestern Athletic.

EDIT #15:  Not tournament related, but the National Football League has cancelled all draftee facility visits, and Major Baseball League has scheduled an afternoon conference call to discuss suspension of spring training and a delay in the start of the season.  At 12:39 pm EDT.

EDIT #16:  America East Conference has cancelled its championship game, scheduled to be played Saturday in Orono VT, between Hartford and Vermont.  Still ongoing:  Big East, Big West, Metro Atlantic, Mid-Eastern Athletic and Southwestern Athletic.  At 12:44 pm EDT.  It's all happened in the last hour.

EDIT #17: Out of the category of "it's about time," the Big East Conference has cancelled the tournament at half-time of the Creighton/St. John's game, at 1:16 pm EDT.

EDIT #18:  Major League Baseball has advised all member clubs that it is suspending operations indefinitely, effective Saturday, March 14.  At 1:22 pm EDT.

EDIT #19:  Major League Soccer has now suspended operations indefinitely, instead of just the thirty day suspension previously announced, at 1:27 pm EDT.

EDIT #20:  The National Hockey League has "paused" operations indefinitely, at 1:32 pm EDT.    

EDIT #21:  The Big West Conference and the Southwestern Athletic Conference have both cancelled their tournaments, at 1:46 pm EDT.  Still ongoing:  Metro Atlantic and Mid-Eastern Athletic.

EDIT #22:  The Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference has cancelled its tournament, leaving only the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference as still ongoing.  AT 2:36 pm EDT.

EDIT #23:  Major League Baseball now says that it is suspending operations as of 4:00 pm EDT today, and that the start of the season will be delayed by at least two weeks, at 3:26 pm EDT.

EDIT #24:  Not tournament related, but for those fans of the minor leagues, the NBA's G-League, the American Hockey League and the United States Hockey League have all suspended operations, at 3:54 pm EDT.

EDIT #25:  Minor League Baseball is likewise delaying the start of the 2020 season, at 3:59 pm EDT.

EDIT #26:  The American Athletic Conference has now cancelled its spring sports season for all member schools, as 4:08 pm EDT.

EDIT #27:  And then there were none.  The last hold-out, the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference, has finally cancelled its tournament, at 4:12 pm EDT.  The Central Hockey League has also suspended operations.

EDIT #28 (and the last edit):  The NCAA has cancelled all winter tournaments, including the Final Four, at 4:25 pm EDT.

[hoya95]

That's got to be it for college basketball this season.

[professorhoya]

Yup, that's a wrap!

[RockawayHoya]

Creighton-SJU looks like it's about to tip.

[hoya95]

Seriously, they can't let this game start. It's not going to finish.

[FrazierFanatic]

No reason for the tourney to continue. NCAA will be cancelled, all other conferences, BE looks foolish if they play.

[3xhoya]

The fact that these conferences have not been communicating with each other and the NCAA is really bizarre. I can't believe they tipped this game after every other major conference cancelled.

[guru]

Mar 12, 2020 11:06:47 GMT -5 FrazierFanatic said:

No reason for the tourney to continue. NCAA will be cancelled, all other conferences, BE looks foolish if they play.

the tournanent that lived! Epic!

(or foolish)

[rhw485]

Embarrassing look for big east as all cancelled and they just tipped off at MSG

[FrazierFanatic]

If St. John's wins and then they cancel the rest of the BET, are they the champs??😁

[hoyasaxa2003]

Mar 12, 2020 11:09:22 GMT -5 rhw485 said:

Embarrassing look for big east as all cancelled and they just tipped off at MSG

At this rate, I would be surprised if they even play tonight. It is possible to do an NCAA tournament without conference champions, but it increasingly looks unlikely to happen this year. I thought the NCAA would hang on to the last minute since they stand to lose so much money, but things might be too far for them to save it.

[professorhoya]

Mar 12, 2020 11:11:50 GMT -5 FrazierFanatic said:

If St. John's wins and then they cancel the rest of the BET, are they the champs??😁

NCAA Champs 2020

[hoyainla]

We could’ve won the last game of the season guys!!! We could’ve hung a banner! We would’ve carried the momentum right into recruiting. Last nights loss gets even more tough to swallow!!!!!!

[professorhoya]

Mar 12, 2020 11:18:25 GMT -5 hoyainla said:

We could’ve won the last game of the season guys!!! We could’ve hung a banner! We would’ve carried the momentum right into recruiting. Last nights loss gets even more tough to swallow!!!!!!

Or people may associate SJ and Creighton with Corona permanently and avoid going there.

[FrazierFanatic]

Mar 12, 2020 11:18:25 GMT -5 hoyainla said:

We could’ve won the last game of the season guys!!! We could’ve hung a banner! We would’ve carried the momentum right into recruiting. Last nights loss gets even more tough to swallow!!!!!!

Well except for Depaul😉

[rhw485]

Mar 12, 2020 11:15:33 GMT -5 hoyasaxa2003 said:

Mar 12, 2020 11:09:22 GMT -5 rhw485 said:

Embarrassing look for big east as all cancelled and they just tipped off at MSG

At this rate, I would be surprised if they even play tonight. It is possible to do an NCAA tournament without conference champions, but it increasingly looks unlikely to happen this year. I thought the NCAA would hang on to the last minute since they stand to lose so much money, but things might be too far for them to save it.

I wouldn't be surprised if they don't come out for 2nd half

[hoya95]

ACC just shut down. There is no way this game should have been played, and no way we would ever be able to complete the tournament on Saturday. Somebody walk out there and pull the plug. Now.

[FrazierFanatic]

Nothing shuts down New Yawk!

[HometownHoya]

Well at least we weren't good this year. I'd be more Editeded if this was our comeback year.

[daveg023]

The Big East looks awful right now.