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2020 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament
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The 2020 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament was a planned single-elimination tournament of 68 teams to determine the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I men's college basketball national champion for the 2019–20 season. The 82nd edition of the tournament would have begun on March 17, 2020, and concluded with the championship game on April 6 at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, Georgia.
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Season | 2019–20 | ||||
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Teams | 68 (planned) | ||||
Finals site | Mercedes-Benz Stadium Atlanta, Georgia | ||||
Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic | |||||
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On March 12, the tournament, as well as all other NCAA championships for the remainder of the academic year, were cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, just five days before it was set to begin. It was the first time the tournament had been cancelled since its creation in 1939.