Men’s March Madness event to be performed completely in an Indiana sorta bubble

March Madness was all the time going to occur. Now we all know the place.

In a assertion, the NCAA introduced its plans for a single-state event for this 12 months’s males’s March Madness.

Teams might be heading to the Hoosier state.

The NCAA selected its phrases fastidiously calling the occasion a “controlled environment.” ESPN stated it will be “the largest bubble-like attempt by any major sport during the pandemic.” I’m no epidemiologist, however it doesn’t sound like we needs to be utilizing the phrase “bubble” after we discuss March Madness 2021.

Sixty-eight groups will play within the Indianapolis area and squads will keep in resorts hooked up to the Indianapolis conference middle. The NCAA says that Marriott, a company accomplice of the nonprofit (sigh), will host most groups.

“This is going to be complicated and difficult,” NCAA Senior Vice President of Basketball Dan Gavitt stated. “We appreciate the collaboration among the Men’s Basketball Committee and staff, our hosts and local organizers, the staffs at each practice and competition venue, and our broadcast and corporate partners. We will all pull together and stage a terrific national championship.”

The NCAA is clearly taking this sort-of-bubble very critically. Their primary focus of the well-being of the student-athlete and never about income, after all. That’s why it “will continue to work with local officials to determine the feasibility of having fans attend games at any of the venues.”

But don’t fear, Indiana residents. You don’t have to worry about faculty college students from across the nation coming to your city in a pandemic. The NCAA will generously promote “Mask Madness” earlier than the event by donating “thousands of masks throughout the state.”

You’re protected! Be grateful!

Last month, the NCAA introduced that the Women’s basketball event might be performed in a single area (San Antonio) as nicely. I suppose the one-region, sort-of-bubble is best than what normally occurs in March. But if that is our bar for security in faculty basketball, that could be an issue.

Some faculty groups have already cancelled their seasons because of the coronavirus and University of Florida standout, Keyontae Johnson, was reportedly identified with acute myocarditis after contracting COVID over the summer time and collapsing on the courtroom in December.

But the NCAA has cash to make and males’s March Madness is its money cow. The Tournament will tip off as regular. That’s assuming we get by means of a daily season first.