Moments later, the players from Michigan and its opponent, Rutgers, were ushered off the floor, their game and the rest of the tournament canceled. “I don’t want to have any regrets,” Kevin Warren, the Big Ten commissioner, said afterward. The sudden ends of the conference basketball competitions — from the mighty Atlantic Coast Conference, home to many of the men’s national champions over the last decade, to smaller leagues like the Southland and the Sun Belt — made the cancellations of the national tournaments only a matter of time. The eventual outcome became even clearer as some of the national basketball powers, like Duke and Kansas, signaled that they would not travel for any athletic events. The N.C.A.A.’s sweeping cancellations came as a surprise to many people, even those who had believed the basketball tournaments were all but certain to be called off.

Source: New York Times March 12, 2020 16:39 UTC