Due to the coronavirus pandemic in the US , the NCAA men 's basketball tournament will be unable to take place for the first time in under 85 years .
On March 12 , the NCAA ultimately announced that all winter-semester and spring-semester tournaments and championships for the remainder of the academic year have been cancelled , including the basketball and baseball tournaments ; this marks the first time that the men 's basketball tournament would not be conducted in its 81-year history .
2020 coronavirus pandemic in the United States