![]() Reduce the number of people in an enclosed space, and you reduce the possibility of transmission, which is what the Big West and MAC announced they will do for their upcoming postseason basketball tournaments. As COVID-19 precautions and fears swirl ever higher, the possibility of playing games in empty arenas has become a reality. The story of Siena College’s bizarre late-season run to the 1989 NCAA tournament - a stretch that featured exactly zero fans in attendance, thanks to a measles outbreak on campus - has taken on new resonance in the last few days. It’s going to be a remarkably strange experience, but not an unprecedented one. Thursday night, the Golden State Warriors and the Brooklyn Nets will become the first NBA teams in the current pandemic to play a game without fans. In 1989, Siena’s men’s basketball team played nine games in front of empty arenas, and despite a triumphant outcome, it was, to quote point guard Marc Brown, “awful.”
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