The NCAA announced Monday that it is scrapping plans for the 2021 men’s basketball tournament to be held at 13 different host locations across the country. Instead, March (or April or May) Madness will go the bubble approach and all 68 teams will head to one, centralized city, likely Indianapolis.
Indy was already set to host this season’s Final Four.
“We have learned so much from monitoring other successful sporting events in the last several months, and it became clear it’s not feasible to manage this complex championship in so many different states with the challenges presented by the pandemic,” said Dan Gavitt, NCAA Senior Vice President of Basketball.