By Bob Hertzel |
For The Times West Virginian Jan 16, 2021
Jan 16, 2021
MORGANTOWN â Last March, the unthinkable became thinkable â a college basketball season without conference tournaments or the college athletic year s most anticipated event for fans, the NCAA Championships themselves.
The lesson that came from that, even in the midst of a pandemic unlike any we ve seen, is that sports is an essential part of American life and so it was we found ways to play the games in as safe an atmosphere and under the strictest of guidelines would could create.
The safety aspect of it, however, led to an unwelcomed phenomenon, that being collegiate football and basketball in fan-empty arenas.