Coronavirus Worries Leave College Basketball Teams Playing with No One in the Stands to Watch

The game took place Friday in Baltimore in front of a nearly empty gym

The AP reports that the first-round NCAA Division III tournament game took place in a “mostly empty” 1,110-seat gym while police manned doors outside where signs read: “No spectators.”

“In light of Maryland’s recently confirmed cases of COVID-19 and based on CDC guidance for large gatherings,” a spokesperson for Johns Hopkins University said in a statement, “we have determined that it is prudent to hold this tournament without spectators.” Anxiety about the spread of the novel COVID-19 virus has caused other sporting events around the world to be either canceled or held inside empty stadiums, without fans allowed in to watch. For example, in Italy fans won’t be allowed to watchthat it was canceling two upcoming away games at Seattle University and Utah Valley University.There are 260 confirmed cases in the U.S. and 14 people have died.

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