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Ivy League cancels winter sports, including basketball, for 2020-21
By Sydney Hunte
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The Ivy League announced on Thursday that it would cancel all winter sports for the 2020-21 season, and as a result, its college basketball season will not be played as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
“Consistent with its commitment to safeguard the health and wellbeing of student-athletes, the greater campus community and general public, the Ivy League Council of Presidents has decided that league schools will not conduct intercollegiate athletics competition in winter sports during the 2020-21 season,” the conference said, according to a press release.
In March, the Ivy League ended its spring sports schedule—including its conference basketball tournaments—as the coronavirus began to take hold in the United States. It then moved to cancel all fall sports, including football, in July, before the announcement on Thursday to move forward without a winter sports schedule.
As with student-athletes that were scheduled to play fall sports, this season will not count toward the eligibility of winter sports student-athletes, according to the league.
Sydney is an Atlanta-based journalist who has covered everything from SEC and ACC football to MLS, the U.S. men's national soccer team and professional tennis. His work has appeared on such platforms as SB Nation, Cox Media Group and FanSided.
