Shortly after announcing the cancelation of its 2020 basketball tournament, the ACC conference has suspended all athletics-related activities, including athletes’ participation in NCAA championship events, as well as practice.
“The Atlantic Coast Conference has suspended all athletic related activities including all competition, formal and organized practice, recruiting and participation in NCAA championships until further notice,” the conference said in a statement.“The decision was made following consultation with the league’s presidents and athletic directors to mitigate the further spread of COVID-19.”
Wednesday, the NCAA announced that it would bar spectators – excluding athletes’ families – from championship events. The Ivy League took it a step further and canceled its tournament and spring athletics, and Thursday, other conferences including the Pac-12, SEC and Big East did the same.
It was generally the case that it was up to individual schools to decide whether they would allow athletes to travel for winter sports postseason events, but the ACC’s a blanket ban now nullifies those decisions
Prior to the conference ruling, Duke had announced that its athletes would not participate in NCAA championship events. Now, Louisville, Virginia, NC State, Virginia Tech, Georgia Tech, Miami, UNC and Florida State will be forced to pull out of the 2020 Swimming & Diving NCAA Championships.
ACC can’t even practice-wow. In stark contrast, people who train with less people a la Michael Andrew style will be getting a huge advantage in the next major international competition (whenever that is to be).
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NCAA just cancelled everything
Source for NCAA Swim/Dive NC?
Big ten has done the same
NCAA just cancelled everything.
Source for NCAA Swim/Dive NC?
Don’t cancel..just postpone for 6-8 weeks from now. Allow the swimmers to come back up in training from their taper and then re-test. In 8 weeks this corinovirus insanity will all be in the rearview.
Its not to late to change your pick ‘ems guys
SEC and PAC12 just announced the same thing
if true then I guess NCAAs will have to be cancelled because literally every team pulled out
As of now, no one but the ACC has made this same ruling. The Pac-12, etc., suspended conference events, not participation in the NCAA postseason.