The Big Dance will be conducted on a smaller dance floor in 2021.
The men's NCAA tournament’s vast national stage is shrinking to one centralized location. Let’s hope that’s the last (and least impactful) concession March Madness has to make to the pandemic.
The NCAA announced Monday that instead of spreading the love and the hoops to 13 different coast-to-coast sites, as usual, it will play the men’s basketball tournament in a single area. Greater Indianapolis is the most likely and most logical and most fitting location. NCAA senior vice president for basketball Dan Gavitt said nothing is finalized yet with Indy, which already was the scheduled site for the Final Four, but all signs point in that direction.