(11-19-2020 06:32 PM)Fort Bend Owl Wrote:  Hey, they need a thread too.

Albany just cancelled its opener due to Covid, and DePaul has cancelled its first three games.

I really don't believe many NC games will be played that require an airline trip and overnight hotel stay. Maybe teams within bussing distance of each other can play, but Rick Pitino has the right idea - just postpone the whole season by a couple of months and wait until vaccines can start to be distributed.

Pitino doesn't have the right idea, and as someone who has made tens of millions of dollars off of basketball, he should know that money is the reason why March Madness ought to be played in March 2021.

Delay the start of the season, fine. If teams end up playing 16 games instead of 26, so be it. But finances dictate playing the tournament on its regularly scheduled dates. CBS and Turner will demand a substantial partial refund if the tournament is played at a different time of year with lower TV ratings, because their advertising revenue will be way down if the tournament dates are changed. Moving off of the regularly scheduled dates will cost hundreds of millions in TV revenue, in a year after the NCAA already lost about a billion dollars due to not playing the tournament at all, and in a year where they will also make little or no ticket revenue from the tournament.