During the hours leading to tipoff of the second round of the SEC men’s basketball tournament in Nashville on March 12, 2020, commissioner Greg Sankey wrestled with the unimaginable.
With concerns about the coronavirus pandemic growing by the minute and the NBA already suspending its season the night before, Sankey scribbled down a few thoughts on paper before coming to the inevitable conclusion to cancel the rest of the conference tournament.
“We have in the 12 months since walked a journey of disruption, of a lot of questions,” Sankey said from the same venue, Bridgestone Arena, a year later.