Report: NCAA Tournament media coordinator reveals if there are plans on releasing a bracket
March Madness is here.
However, the madness isn’t going on in stadiums and gymnasiums. It’s going on all over the world thanks to the coronavirus.
We’ve all read and heard about it and it’s affecting the sports world in many ways. One way, of course, was that it brought the cancellation of the NCAA men’s basketball tournament. The season is over.
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Each year, on the Sunday prior to the 68-team tournament beginning, the entire bracket is revealed. For fun — and like former Michigan coach John Beilein advocated for — would there be a bracket reveal this year for what would be a hypothetical tournament?
Here’s NCAA Tournament media coordinator David Worlock, who spoke with ESPN about it:
“No plans to do that,” Worlock said. “We hardly started the process. The priority for committee members then was to return home to tend to affairs on campus or conference offices.”
Worlock does make a point that the people who finalize the bracket have lives of their own. For 365 days a year, they don’t sit and ponder about what the NCAA Tournament bracket will look like. They have other jobs that need attending to.
And considering the pandemic that the world is faced with, there are more important things for these individuals to attend to rather than spending hours creating a bracket for a tournament that will never happen.
Sorry, college hoops fans. This doesn’t appear to be happening — as interesting and fun as it would be.