2020 NCAA Tournament

[Greek Tragedy]

What a strange and disappointing way to end this year's tournament.

[Mr. Ypsi]

What a strange and disappointing way to end this year's tournament.

From the Looking Desperately for a Silver Lining Department:  Most years only one team finishes the tourney with a win - this year 16 teams did!

[Titan Q]

Tournament per Massey...

Sweet 16
Swarthmore def. Whitworth
Brockport def. Tufts

St. John's def. St. Thomas
Elmhurst def. Pomona-Pitzer

Mount Union def. Wittenberg
Randolph-Macon def. Yeshiva

Christopher Newport def. Hobart
North Central def. Wash U

Elite 8
Swarthmore def. Brockport

St. John's def. Elmhurst

Mount Union def. Randolph-Macon

Christopher Newport def. North Central

Final 4
St. John's def. Swarthmore

Mount Union def. Christopher Newport

National Championship
Mount Union def. St. John's

https://www.masseyratings.com/cb2020/ncaa-d3/ratings

[AndOne]

We'll never know. 🤔 🙁

[magicman]

Massey didn't take into consideration that Brockport's pre-season All American, Justin Summers, was back from an injury that sidelined him for about a dozen games. He scored 22 points in the game against Middlebury last Saturday.  With him in the lineup Brockport wins it all.

[CNU85]

Congrats to CNU 2020 NCAA Men's and Women's National Co-Champions!!!! 

(Stole it from Coach K and Dave on Hoopsville).

Dave -- I was almost there! Haha. After class I ran into some athletic department folks heading home and they told me where the team was eating. I almost headed there but decided they just needed to be to themselves! Nice show, by the way. A difficult one for sure. You managed it with great empathy and understanding. Nicely done!

[89Pirate]

I hope Whitworth and Pomona didn't already travel.  That would be brutal.

Not sure about Pomona Pitzer, but the Whitworth team was still on campus in the Fieldhouse waiting on the NCAA decisions.

Truly sad times for sports and sports fan as a whole.

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

I hope Whitworth and Pomona didn't already travel.  That would be brutal.

Not sure about Pomona Pitzer, but the Whitworth team was still on campus in the Fieldhouse waiting on the NCAA decisions.

Truly sad times for sports and sports fan as a whole.

As far as I know, all 32 d3 teams were on site when the call came.  Yeshiva was literally walking off the bus at their hotel.  Tufts men may still have been on the bus.

[AndOne]

Wash U guys were in the NCC gym in the middle of their practice session. Bummer.  :

[89Pirate]

I hope Whitworth and Pomona didn't already travel.  That would be brutal.

Not sure about Pomona Pitzer, but the Whitworth team was still on campus in the Fieldhouse waiting on the NCAA decisions.

Truly sad times for sports and sports fan as a whole.

As far as I know, all 32 d3 teams were on site when the call came.  Yeshiva was literally walking off the bus at their hotel.  Tufts men may still have been on the bus.

Like I said earlier, the Pirates were still in Spokane...my mother (long story) was there waiting with them.

[Dave 'd-mac' McHugh]

Congrats to CNU 2020 NCAA Men's and Women's National Co-Champions!!!! 

(Stole it from Coach K and Dave on Hoopsville).

Dave -- I was almost there! Haha. After class I ran into some athletic department folks heading home and they told me where the team was eating. I almost headed there but decided they just needed to be to themselves! Nice show, by the way. A difficult one for sure. You managed it with great empathy and understanding. Nicely done!

Thank you ... I appreciate it. I honestly don't even remember many parts of the show. The last week has been a serious blur. I have worked in sports and news my entire career ... I thought nothing was more surreal than post 9/11 and some other moments. This week ... on a different level.

[voxelmhurst]

Tomorrow's game between Elmhurst and Pomona-Pitzer would have been, hands down, the biggest game ever played at Elmhurst's wonderfully outdated RA Faganel Hall. Longtime Elmhurst fans have waited decades for a game of this magnitude, and now the game will exist only in the program's lore. I'm sure some other schools and fanbases were in the same situation.

[WUPHF]

My Division II alma mater was getting on the bus to head to Indiana for the first round.

At least we got one weekend of basketball.

If only the NCAA had announced the cancellation to happen after this weekend, we would have had the most extraordinary weekend of basketball.  8 championship games.  As much as I agree with social distancing as a public policy, I could get on board with Ryan Scott on this as a no-brainer.

I am going to blame Fred Hoiberg for showing up to the game on Wednesday with the flu and the video of him looking like he was on his death bed (and his panicked assistant reaching down for the hand sanitizer).

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

My Division II alma mater was getting on the bus to head to Indiana for the first round.

At least we got one weekend of basketball.

If only the NCAA had announced the cancellation to happen after this weekend, we would have had the most extraordinary weekend of basketball.  8 championship games.  As much as I agree with social distancing as a public policy, I could get on board with Ryan Scott on this as a no-brainer.

I am going to blame Fred Hoiberg for showing up to the game on Wednesday with the flu and the video of him looking like he was on his death bed (and his panicked assistant reaching down for the hand sanitizer).

Fred was diagnosed before the game and cleared.  Probably on the school or the broadcasters for not checking and making that clear to the public.

[WUPHF]

I had heard that quarantined the entire Nebraska basketball team in the locker room, so I assumed it was an unknown.  Very interesting.