🚨NCAA decides to move the entire 2021 NCAA Tournament to one area, likely greater Indianapolis (Emergency Podcast!)
Eye On College Basketball
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4.6 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 16 November 2020
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
The 2021 NCAA Tournament will be held in one general location, with that location hopefully being the greater Indianapolis area. What is and isn't doable, what has and hasn't been decided, what should and shouldn't happen: Gary Parrish and Matt Norlander give you 30 minutes of reaction to Monday's big news.
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| 0:00.0 | emergency podcast season is back. We got a big headline that dropped on Monday morning |
| 0:05.2 | and that's that the NCAA is taking its tournament out of 13 locations across the country |
| 0:10.3 | for 2021 and instead it's going to host the whole damn thing in one general geographic |
| 0:15.9 | region that's expected to be Indianapolis. So what do we know? What did not get answered |
| 0:21.4 | on Monday by NCAA officials? What does Paris think that the answer they should do? Come |
| 0:25.9 | March and why am I so steadfast on pushing this thing back to mid April at the earliest? |
| 0:32.2 | We got it all for you right now. Let's do it. |
| 0:34.2 | Hey there, it's scary. Paris. It's Monday, November 16, 2020. Welcome back to the CVS sports |
| 0:40.9 | eye on college basketball podcast where we sometimes discuss camel fighting and leaky |
| 0:46.1 | black Matt Norlander is here with me and some fairly big breaking news earlier today. |
| 0:50.6 | The NCAA has announced that the entire 2021 NCAA tournament will be held in one geographical |
| 0:58.6 | location. Norlander, you were on a media call with the NCAA's Dan Gavett earlier this |
| 1:03.8 | afternoon. So I'll let you handle the details. What did we learn about the NCAA tournament |
| 1:08.0 | this afternoon? |
| 1:09.0 | Biggest thing is that normally the tournament has 13 sites right around the country. That's |
| 1:13.8 | not going to happen in 2021 and that's a good thing. We have talked about this on the |
| 1:18.6 | podcast. We talked about it in August, built around a, we had a three-part series actually |
| 1:24.2 | that went up about how we should hold the season in general from the regular season all |
| 1:28.0 | the way through the tournament. And one of those columns that I wrote was a detail. Listen, |
| 1:34.3 | I handed the blueprint to the NCAA and they went with it. What do you want me to say |
| 1:37.3 | here? They're going to go and try and do this in Indianapolis. That's not yet official. |
| 1:40.8 | I think it is inevitable. They were Dan Gavett, who's the NCAA senior vice president for |
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