March Madness with empty arenas? It can’t be ruled out

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6 thoughts on “March Madness with empty arenas? It can’t be ruled out

    1. The death rate of coronavirus is over 3 percent while that from regular flu is under 1 percent. Please learn the facts.

  1. This has got to be one of the dumbest things I have ever heard! The money will not allow this to happen of course. Who is going to play a game with no fans? The NBA is continuing forward, so will ncaa

    1. But isn’t the NBA’s crowd for an evening from a single city? With the NCAA, you’re almost guaranteed to have broad cross sections of people from across the country from 64+ different parts of the country (not to mention alums from God only knows where) in clusters where people who are asymptomatic but “hot” are going to be interacting across 4+ days with others who can easily end up back home and transmit their sickness to others before the travelers become symptomatic, not to mention the time they’ll spend inside a sardine can with wings for a few hours.

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