If a basketball team wins four games in four days and nobody is around to see it, does it still get to claim a conference championship? The Hawkeye basketball team is hoping to find out. With concerns over the coronavirus spreading even faster than the sickness itself, the Big Ten has made the prudent decision to bar casual fans from attending Big Ten tournament games starting with Thursday’s 12:00 PM EST game between Michigan and Rutgers. As high as the stakes are for teams hoping to depart Indianapolis as Big Ten Tournament champions, they pale in comparison to those facing millions of Americans who are particularly vulnerable to the virus.
Big Ten Tournament: Iowa vs Minnesota Preview
