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In the same week we saw some basketball programs announce their entire season schedules, the Ivy League has announced their cancellations of the entire 2020-21 winter sports schedule.
Ivy League presidents voted to make that decision on Thursday afternoon and Matt Norlander of CBS Sports was the first to report it.
From the Matt Norlander/CBS Sports report:
This is not a shocking vote — far from it. Multiple Ivy League sources, dating back to early September, expressed pessimism about the notion that league presidents would allow for winter sports/a basketball season. Some programs have yet to even hold indoor workouts to this point. Added one source, “We don’t need money to play. In the Ivy League, it’s 100% a health and safety issue.”
As you may recall the Ivy League was the first conference to cancel their 2020 football season while the likes of the Big Ten and Pac-12 and MAC all followed suit, although all three ultimately reversed course and decided to play.
It remains to be seen if the Ivy League will remain on an island with cancelling fall sports or if other conferences will follow their lead before long.
College basketball is set to get underway in just two weeks.
Stay tuned and buckle up.