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NCAA shakes up March Madness schedule format due to the coronavirus pandemic
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"You’re no longer going to need a second screen or a seat in a sports bar to see all the action — just a really comfortable chair and a stocked fridge," Mike Decourcy says of the new format. "There will be, for this year, no more choosing between such simultaneous classics as LSU-Texas and UCLA-Gonzaga, which were played in the same window on a Thursday night in 2006, or Virginia Tech-Duke and Kentucky-Houston, which shared the same late Friday timeslot in the most recent NCAA Tournament we had, in 2019. A college basketball season like no other will end with an NCAA Tournament like no other."
TOPICS: NCAA Tournament, Coronavirus
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