Big Ten Conference
ROSEMONT, IL (WSAU) — Officials with the Big Ten Conference have announced that a limited number of fans will be admitted for MBB tournament games at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis next week.
The League’s Athletic Directors and Presidents announced on Thursday that 8,000 tickets will be distributed for each session. A limited number will be made available to officials from each school, which will be sold to supporters through their ticketing office.
Each school will also be given an allotment of discounted student tickets.
The same policy will apply for the Big Ten Women’s Basketball Tournament, which is also being played in Indy next week at Bankers Life Fieldhouse. An allotment of 2,500 tickets will be made available for each session of that event. Those tickets will be sold through Ticketmaster, according to a release from the conference.
The announcement comes one week short of the one-year anniversary of the cancelation of the 2020 Big Ten MBB tournament after just two games were played due to the COVID-19 outbreak. Those were the Wednesday evening opening-round contests between Minnesota and Northwestern and Indiana and Nebraska, both games had fans in attendance though the league had announced earlier in the day that games from the second-round on would be played in front of an empty arena.
As Rutgers and Michigan were warming up the league announced it would ax the rest of the tournament and award its automatic bid to the NCAA tournament to the league’s regular-season champion. Later in the day that would prove to be a moot point as the NCAA announced the cancelation of the 68-team event along with the 64-team WBB tourney and the entire spring sports season.
The announcement was just one of many dominos that fell on March 12th, 2020 in the sporting world. Every other conference tournament that was in progress was later canceled, along with the suspension of the NBA, NHL, MLS, and MLB Spring Training schedules.
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