“There are just too many uncertainties to feel comfortable, from a medical standpoint, to proceed forward,' Big Ten Commissioner Kevin Warren said.
The Big Ten's move also impacts men’s and women’s cross country, field hockey, men’s and women’s soccer, and women’s volleyball.
Scott said Tuesday there's no guarantee the NCAA will keep a normal basketball schedule for 2020-21:"Some will also depend on what the NCAA decides in terms of March Madness and the envelope for the season." He argued — without providing evidence — that college football players, elite athletes in their late teens and early 20s, are at virtually no risk of being infected or seriously hurt by coronavirus.
A Nebraska fan watches a game between the Colorado Buffaloes and the visiting Nebraska Huskers at Folsom Field in Boulder, CO. on Sept. 7, 2019., whose Huskers joined the Big Ten in 2011, on Monday floated the possibility of his team's joining another conference to play just for this fall season. When asked if the decision to pull the plug on fall sports had unanimous support from all 14 schools, Warren declined to answer.
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