{"id":193814,"date":"2020-03-11T16:28:59","date_gmt":"2020-03-11T21:28:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=193814"},"modified":"2020-03-11T16:34:04","modified_gmt":"2020-03-11T21:34:04","slug":"limited-attendance-ncaa-d-i-basketball-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=193814","title":{"rendered":"Limited attendance NCAA D-I Basketball Tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(AP)\u00a0\u00a0 NCAA President Mark Emmert says NCAA Division I basketball tournament games will not be open to the general public because of concerns about the spread of coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p>Emmert says he made the decision to conduct both the men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s tournaments with only essential staff and limited family in attendance. The decision comes after the NCAA&#8217;s COVID-19 advisory panel recommended against playing sporting events open to the general public.<\/p>\n<p>Emmert also says the NCAA is looking into moving the men&#8217;s Final Four from Atlanta&#8217;s Mercedes-Benz Stadium to a smaller arena. The tournaments begin next week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(AP)\u00a0\u00a0 NCAA President Mark Emmert says NCAA Division I basketball tournament games will not be open to the general public because of concerns about the spread of coronavirus. Emmert says he made the decision to conduct both the men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s tournaments with only essential staff and limited family in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=193814"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":193815,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193814\/revisions\/193815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=193814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=193814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=193814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}