Athletic directors around America are confident that the college basketball season will happen.
According to a survey from Stadium, 96.5% of D1 ADs are “somewhat confident” or “very confident” that there will be college basketball during the coronavirus pandemic. (RELATED: David Hookstead Is The True King In The North When It Comes To College Football)
Additionally, 97.3% of ADs believe that there will be an NCAA tournament at some point for the season.
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If the football season goes off without a hitch or relatively few problems, then I see no reason why we can’t have college basketball.
We already lost the 2020 March Madness tournament because of coronavirus, and that was a shot straight to the gut.
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I’ll never forget sitting at one of my favorite bars when it happened. I was in utter disbelief that the Badgers weren’t going to get a shot at the national title.
Now, we’re months removed from that, and it’s time to make sure we get the college basketball season this time around.
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If we can play football, then we can play basketball. It’s that simple. I see no reason why we can’t. Let’s get to work and do whatever needs to be done to save basketball.
We simply can’t have two basketball seasons getting screwed up.