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Some venues (such as those in Ohio and California) enacted further local numerical restrictions on the numbers of those who could attend an event, which the NCAA agreed to respect. The NCAA subsequently announced it would go on with its winter-sport championships, including its basketball tournaments, with attendance limited to essential staff and family members. Some conferences subsequently announced they would go on with their tournaments while holding their games behind closed doors with no outside spectators and limited attendance, especially on March 11 (when the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic). Harvard University was scheduled to host the event at Lavietes Pavilion in Boston on March 14 and 15. On March 10, the Ivy League announced it had cancelled the conference's tournament, and would award its championship and automatic qualification to Yale based on regular season records. The timing of the tournament coincided with the wider spread of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. See also: Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on sports

It was the first time the tournament had been cancelled since its creation in 1939.ĬOVID-19 impact and cancellation On March 12, the tournament, as well as all other NCAA championships for the remainder of the academic year, were cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, just five days before it was set to begin. The 82nd edition of the tournament would have begun on March 17, 2020, and concluded with the championship game on April 6 at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, Georgia. The 2020 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament was a planned single-elimination tournament of 68 teams to determine the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I men's college basketball national champion for the 2019–20 season. The Dukes return seven letterwinners and welcome six newcomers for the 2023-24 campaign, as they look to build on this past season, which saw them rack up 22 wins, the most for the program since the historic 1981-82 campaign.Edition of USA college basketball tournament This will mark JMU's first-ever appearance in the Cancun Challenge.Ĭomplete information is available at the event website, with fan ticketing and travel packages also available. JMU has never faced Fresno State or New Mexico State in men's basketball and holds a 15-4 all-time advantage over in-state foe Radford.īoth of the Dukes' matchups in Cancun will be broadcast nationally on CBS Sports Network. The Dukes are 0-3 all-time against Southern Illinois, but have not faced the Salukis since the 1996-97 campaign. 17 as the opening game of the eight-team event. JMU will also welcome Radford to Harrisonburg on Friday, Nov. 22 before the championship game at 8:30 p.m. The losers of the two contests will play at 6 p.m. ET before Fresno State takes on New Mexico State at 8:30 p.m. 21, taking on Southern Illinois at 6 p.m. The Dukes will open the Riviera Division portion of the event on Tuesday, Nov. James Madison men's basketball has added a trio of strong mid-major opponents to its 2023-24 slate, as the Dukes will compete in the 16th Annual Men's Cancun Challenge, hosted at the Hard Rock Hotel Riviera Maya on Nov.