All a team needs to play in this year’s NCAA Tournament is five healthy players. How about a coach? The NCAA will get back to you on that. The fluid nature of a March Madness played amid the coronavirus pandemic was apparent hours before the selection committee began meeting to hash out a 68-team bracket. NCAA executive Dan Gavitt said that as long as a team has five healthy players, it is good to go. And if that team’s coaching staff gets decimated by COVID-19? Gavitt didn’t have an answer but says the committee will discuss that this week.
