COVID-19 forced the NCAA to rework its longstanding schedule for the men’s basketball tournament, and while recognizing that this damn pandemic shouldn’t be credited with anything positive, well, turning the Sweet 16 into a weekend affair and moving the Elite Eight to prime time on Monday and Tuesday was … genius.
And it’s something the NCAA ought to make permanent.
Sweet 16 games have consistently been played on Thursdays since 1953. It wasn’t called the Sweet 16 then, of course. With…
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