FAYETTEVILLE — Today in Austin, Texas the Arkansas Razorbacks men’s and women’s track and field teams were to conclude at the NCAA Outdoor Championships what they anticipated would be a successful Outdoor season.
They didn’t. Nobody did. For while doing their pre-meet workouts March 12 at the NCAA Indoor Championships in Albuquerque, N.M., the Razorbacks men of Coach Chris Bucknam and Razorbacks women of Coach Lance Harter and every team of every NCAA sport learned not only was the NCAA Indoor cancelled but every event and every practice in every sport cancelled because of the coronavirus covid-19 pandemic.