College basketball entered an unfamiliar world last week.
The NCAA tournament, the sport’s showcase event and a competition that persisted through point shaving scandals and a world war, was canceled for the first time since its inception in 1939.
While the cancelation of the men’s NCAA tournament was just one of the dominoes to fall within a large swath of cancelations made by the NCAA in the interest of public health and safety, the disappointment is still evident for plenty of Big Ten teams.
The consensus among bracketologists was that 10 Big Ten schools would likely have made this year’s NCAA tournament, barring a surprise run in the Big Ten tournament from other schools.