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2020 NCAA Championship Thread

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Russell Jaslow said:
You need to get past the denial phase of your grief. :D

"She's dead, Jim."

"This is a dead parrot."
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Well, I was just trying to find the story that stated that the D-III men's tournament was cancelled because everything was "D-I" and it really didn't specify the D-III tournament that everyone was so quick to say was cancelled when the stories on the NCAA website had "D-I tournaments canceled" plastered everywhere as a headline because they as usual forget that there is a D-III tournament as well. The articles didn't seem specific enough. Additionally, on the Utica College athletics page even at the bottom in fine print still speaks about hosting the game as planned but without fans. Literally right now at the time of this posting if you look and scroll to the bottom of the Utica College athletics page, it says the game will be played without fans and nothing about it completely being canceled so I was confused.

This is completely ridiculous that the games will not be played at all. I'm a firm believer that the games should be played at the very least without fans. To cancel completely is yet another one of the countless examples out there right now of gross over-panic and highly exaggerated people taking precautions for something that will not effect most and is NOT deadly for those that are not very young, with pre-existing medical conditions or elderly. If you fit a category that it would effect you more than others, then stay home? :confused: It's like the domino effect. One person does it and its like "Monkey see, monkey do...lets play sheep and just do what everyone else does.":rolleyes:
 
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Pioneers#1 said:
Well, I was just trying to find the story that stated that the D-III men's tournament was cancelled because everything was "D-I" and it really didn't specify the D-III tournament that everyone was so quick to say was cancelled when the stories on the NCAA website had "D-I tournaments canceled" plastered everywhere as a headline because they as usual forget that there is a D-III tournament as well. The articles didn't seem specific enough. Additionally, on the Utica College athletics page even at the bottom in fine print still speaks about hosting the game as planned but without fans. Literally right now at the time of this posting if you look and scroll to the bottom of the Utica College athletics page, it says the game will be played without fans and nothing about it completely being canceled so I was confused.

This is completely ridiculous that the games will not be played at all. I'm a firm believer that the games should be played at the very least without fans. To cancel completely is yet another one of the countless examples out there right now of gross over-panic and highly exaggerated people taking precautions for something that will not effect most and is NOT deadly for those that are not very young, with pre-existing medical conditions or elderly. If you fit a category that it would effect you more than others, then stay home? :confused: It's like the domino effect. One person does it and its like "Monkey see, monkey do...lets play sheep and just do what everyone else does.":rolleyes:
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The communications say winter and spring NCAA tournaments cancelled. Not sure how much clearer it can get.

Geneseo's athletics and hockey twitter accounts have confirmed the tournament is cancelled.
https://twitter.com/GeneseoHockey

Regarding the virus: the issue isn't that its deadly for most people, it's that it's extremely dangerous for certain at risk groups AND extremely contagious. A significant percentage of people who contract it will require hospitalization. Just take a look at what is happening in Italy to see what can happen if enough people contract it at once. Their healthcare system does not have enough capacity to deal with the number of people who need care. They are basically practicing war time triage over there. I am as upset as anybody that this is happening but I understand why it has to happen.
 
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Pioneers#1 said:
Well, I was just trying to find the story that stated that the D-III men's tournament was cancelled because everything was "D-I" and it really didn't specify the D-III tournament that everyone was so quick to say was cancelled when the stories on the NCAA website had "D-I tournaments canceled" plastered everywhere as a headline because they as usual forget that there is a D-III tournament as well. The articles didn't seem specific enough. Additionally, on the Utica College athletics page even at the bottom in fine print still speaks about hosting the game as planned but without fans. Literally right now at the time of this posting if you look and scroll to the bottom of the Utica College athletics page, it says the game will be played without fans and nothing about it completely being canceled so I was confused.
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The NCAA release, if you actually read it, was very clear. It left no doubt what it included, which was everything.
 
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Pioneers#1 said:
This is completely ridiculous that the games will not be played at all. I'm a firm believer that the games should be played at the very least without fans. To cancel completely is yet another one of the countless examples out there right now of gross over-panic and highly exaggerated people taking precautions for something that will not effect most and is NOT deadly for those that are not very young, with pre-existing medical conditions or elderly. If you fit a category that it would effect you more than others, then stay home? :confused: It's like the domino effect. One person does it and its like "Monkey see, monkey do...lets play sheep and just do what everyone else does.":rolleyes:
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You do realize 200 people a day are dying in Italy and they have run out of ventilators to even be able to treat people. Which means you basically die in some hospital hallway.

You do realize that satellite images seem to show Iran digging trenches for mass burials.

But yeah, we're just overreacting...
 
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Russell Jaslow said:
You do realize 200 people a day are dying in Italy and they have run out of ventilators to even be able to treat people. Which means you basically die in some hospital hallway.

You do realize that satellite images seem to show Iran digging trenches for mass burials.

But yeah, we're just overreacting...
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But yet we don't live in Italy, nor Iran. Our medical system is better. Hmmmmmmm Just saying.......
 
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KnightsOfTheRound said:
The communications say winter and spring NCAA tournaments cancelled. Not sure how much clearer it can get.

Geneseo's athletics and hockey twitter accounts have confirmed the tournament is cancelled.
https://twitter.com/GeneseoHockey

Regarding the virus: the issue isn't that its deadly for most people, it's that it's extremely dangerous for certain at risk groups AND extremely contagious. A significant percentage of people who contract it will require hospitalization. Just take a look at what is happening in Italy to see what can happen if enough people contract it at once. Their healthcare system does not have enough capacity to deal with the number of people who need care. They are basically practicing war time triage over there. I am as upset as anybody that this is happening but I understand why it has to happen.
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Again we don't live in Italy.
 
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sacole13 said:
But yet we don't live in Italy, nor Iran. Our medical system is better. Hmmmmmmm Just saying.......
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Are you kidding me? Our medical infrastructure is crap.

We can't even test people, while South Korea is testing people at a rate of 10,000 (maybe 20,000) people a day.

Our hospitals flat out don't have the capacity to handle a huge influx of critical need patients. We don't have the ICU beds nor the ventilators in those numbers. Our medical infrastructure runs at a capacity of 95-97% which from a just-in-time business perspective is fantastic. But, from a critical long term medical surge, it's terrible.

And don't even get me started how this is all going to get paid for and how many people won't get tested or treated for fear of how much it's going to cost them.

My brother is working with the task force in the State of Washington. They are begging the federal government for supplies, and they are not getting enough. This is a procedural disaster in the making. Talk to any medical person working in a hospital. They all say we are not equipped to handle this.
 
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Russell Jaslow said:
The NCAA release, if you actually read it, was very clear. It left no doubt what it included, which was everything.
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The headline writers chose to focus on DI basketball, because to them, DII and DIII sports don't exist, and neither do any DI sports outside of FB and BB.
 
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NUProf said:
The headline writers chose to focus on DI basketball, because to them, DII and DIII sports don't exist, and neither do any DI sports outside of FB and BB.
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Which is why I said the official "release," which was not difficult to find on the front page of ncaa.com.
 
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Fishman'81 said:
This is the usual dumb argument: just win the last couple of games (even if you go 4-21 on the season) and that alone makes you worthy to displace teams that have a much much better body of work.

Come on.

Some traditionalists natter-on in an annual attempt to rationalize this system, but it's logically indefensible by any reasonable measure.
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This is how most if not all the other NCAA tournaments work. A lot of conferences get autobids. The difference being only 12 teams make NCAA D3 so you have teams that aren't as good displacing good teams when they win their conference. Compared to the other sports (BB, Football, Baseball, where 32+ teams make it) they can make up for it by giving the autobids a spot, but also putting in deserving teams and ranking the not great AQ's low rankings in the tournament.

For example Robert Morris won their conference and got an autobid for the CBB D1 NCAA tournament, but were most likely going to have to do the play in game, or would be ranked 15 or 16.

If they did 16 teams which is what D1 hockey does and is the lowest number of any of the other sports, you would have a few more deserving teams get in and would limit the issue of when upsets occur.
 
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abcpens10 said:
This is how most if not all the other NCAA tournaments work. A lot of conferences get autobids. The difference being only 12 teams make NCAA D3 so you have teams that aren't as good displacing good teams when they win their conference. Compared to the other sports (BB, Football, Baseball, where 32+ teams make it) they can make up for it by giving the autobids a spot, but also putting in deserving teams and ranking the not great AQ's low rankings in the tournament.

For example Robert Morris won their conference and got an autobid for the CBB D1 NCAA tournament, but were most likely going to have to do the play in game, or would be ranked 15 or 16.

If they did 16 teams which is what D1 hockey does and is the lowest number of any of the other sports, you would have a few more deserving teams get in and would limit the issue of when upsets occur.
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For your first post, you decided to tread on this dangerous turf? :eek:

Don't poke the bear.
 
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