Novel Coronavirus Impacting College Baseball From Coast To Coast
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UPDATE: The NCAA announced Thursday afternoon it is cancelling the 2020 College World Series.
There are now more than 1,000 confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) in the United States, and in an effort to curtail further spread of the virus, sporting events have quickly become an area of focus.
At this point, college basketball, with its conference tournaments underway and the NCAA Tournament just around the corner, has been most affected. However, quickly-changing attitudes toward the approach to preventing the spread of the disease led to swift action from universities and conferences that directly affected college baseball.
The most aggressive moves came from the Ivy League and Patriot League, which announced that all spring sports seasons, including baseball, have been canceled.
Additionally, several schools Wednesday announced changes in attendance policies that would eliminate spectators at games and limit those in attendance to players, coaches, essential staff, and in some cases, recruits and families of players, but in many cases, those previous policies were superseded by announcements that play would be suspended altogether.
The biggest dominoes to fall early on were the SEC, Pac-12 and ACC which announced Thursday that play had been suspended. For the SEC, things are on hold until March 30, although league member Auburn announced that it wouldn’t play until April 10. For all the rest, play has been suspended indefinitely.
The SEC sent out the following release: “Based on the latest developments and the continued spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19), the Southeastern Conference today announced the suspension of regular season competition for teams in all sports on SEC campuses, as well SEC championship events, until March 30.”
Other schools have announced reductions in campus events or limits on travel, and many have closed their campuses, but it is unclear in some cases if such directives will affect baseball schedules.
Below is a table of all the college baseball programs that have had games affected in one way or another. This list will be updated as more information becomes available.
| School | Action |
| Abilene Christian | All games canceled |
| Air Force | All games canceled |
| Akron | All games canceled |
| Alabama | All games canceled |
| Alabama A&M | All games canceled |
| Alabama-Birmingham | All games canceled |
| Alabama State | All games canceled |
| Albany | All games canceled |
| Alcorn State | All games canceled |
| Appalachian State | All games canceled |
| Arizona | All games canceled |
| Arizona State | All games canceled |
| Arkansas | All games canceled |
| Arkansas-Little Rock | All games canceled |
| Arkansas-Pine Bluff | All games canceled |
| Arkansas State | All games canceled |
| Army | All games canceled |
| Auburn | All games canceled |
| Austin Peay | All games canceled |
| Ball State | All games canceled |
| Baylor | All games canceled |
| Belmont | All games canceled |
| Bethune-Cookman | Play suspended through spring semester |
| Binghamton | All games canceled |
| Boise State | All games canceled |
| Boston College | All games canceled |
| Bowling Green | All games canceled |
| Bradley | All games canceled |
| Brigham Young | All games canceled |
| Brown | All games canceled |
| Bryant | All games canceled |
| Bucknell | All games canceled |
| Butler | All games canceled |
| California | All games canceled |
| Cal Baptist | All games canceled |
| Cal Poly | All games canceled |
| Cal State Bakersfield | All games canceled |
| Cal State Fullerton | All games canceled |
| Cal State Northridge | All games canceled |
| Campbell | All games canceled |
| Canisius | All games canceled |
| Central Arkansas | All games canceled |
| Central Connecticut State | All games canceled |
| Central Florida | All games canceled |
| Central Michigan | All games canceled |
| Charleston Southern | All games canceled |
| Charlotte | All games canceled |
| Chicago State | All games canceled |
| Cincinnati | All games canceled |
| Citadel | All games canceled |
| Clemson | All games canceled |
| Coastal Carolina | All games canceled |
| College of Charleston | All games canceled |
| Columbia | All games canceled |
| Connecticut | All games canceled |
| Coppin State | Play suspended through spring semester |
| Cornell | All games canceled |
| Creighton | All games canceled |
| Dallas Baptist | All games canceled |
| Dartmouth | All games canceled |
| Davidson | All games canceled |
| Dayton | All games canceled |
| Delaware | All games canceled |
| Delaware State | Play suspended through spring semester |
| Duke | All games canceled |
| East Carolina | All games canceled |
| East Tennessee State | All games canceled |
| Eastern Illinois | All games canceled |
| Eastern Kentucky | All games canceled |
| Eastern Michigan | All games canceled |
| Elon | All games canceled |
| Evansville | All games canceled |
| Fairfield | All games canceled |
| Fairleigh Dickinson | All games canceled |
| Florida | All games canceled |
| Florida A&M | Play suspended through spring semester |
| Florida Atlantic | All games canceled |
| Florida Gulf Coast | All games canceled |
| Florida International | All games canceled |
| Florida State | All games canceled |
| Fordham | All games canceled |
| Fresno State | All games canceled |
| Furman | All games canceled |
| Gardner-Webb | All games canceled |
| George Mason | All games canceled |
| George Washington | All games canceled |
| Georgetown | All games canceled |
| Georgia | All games canceled |
| Georgia Southern | All games canceled |
| Georgia State | All games canceled |
| Georgia Tech | All games canceled |
| Gonzaga | All games canceled |
| Grambling State | All games canceled |
| Grand Canyon | All games canceled |
| Hartford | All games canceled |
| Harvard | All games canceled |
| Hawaii | All games canceled |
| High Point | All games canceled |
| Hofstra | All games canceled |
| Holy Cross | All games canceled |
| Houston | All games canceled |
| Houston Baptist | All games canceled |
| Illinois | All games canceled |
| Illinois-Chicago | All games canceled |
| Illinois State | All games canceled |
| Incarnate Word | All games canceled |
| Indiana | All games canceled |
| Indiana State | All games canceled |
| Iona | All games canceled |
| Iowa | All games canceled |
| Jackson State | All games canceled |
| Jacksonville | All games canceled |
| Jacksonville State | All games canceled |
| James Madison | All games canceled |
| Kansas | All games canceled |
| Kansas State | All games canceled |
| Kennesaw State | All games canceled |
| Kent State | All games canceled |
| Kentucky | All games canceled |
| La Salle | All games canceled |
| Lafayette | All games canceled |
| Lamar | All games canceled |
| Lehigh | All games canceled |
| Liberty | All games canceled |
| Lipscomb | All games canceled |
| Long Beach State | All games canceled |
| Long Island | All games canceled |
| Longwood | All games canceled |
| Louisiana-Monroe | All games canceled |
| Louisiana-Lafayette | All games canceled |
| Louisiana State | All games canceled |
| Louisiana Tech | All games canceled |
| Louisville | All games canceled |
| Loyola Marymount | All games canceled |
| Maine | All games canceled |
| Manhattan | All games canceled |
| Marist | All games canceled |
| Marshall | All games canceled |
| Maryland | All games canceled |
| Maryland-Baltimore County | All games canceled |
| Maryland-Eastern Shore | Play suspended through spring semester |
| Massachusetts | All games canceled |
| Massachusetts-Lowell | All games canceled |
| Memphis | All games canceled |
| Mercer | All games canceled |
| Merrimack | All games canceled |
| McNeese State | All games canceled |
| Miami | All games canceled |
| Miami (OH) | All games canceled |
| Michigan | All games canceled |
| Michigan State | All games canceled |
| Middle Tennessee State | All games canceled |
| Minnesota | All games canceled |
| Mississippi | All games canceled |
| Mississippi State | All games canceled |
| Mississippi Valley State | All games canceled |
| Missouri | All games canceled |
| Missouri State | All games canceled |
| Monmouth | All games canceled |
| Morehead State | All games canceled |
| Mount St. Mary’s | All games canceled |
| Murray State | All games canceled |
| Navy | All games canceled |
| Nebraska | All games canceled |
| Nebraska-Omaha | All games canceled |
| Nevada | All games canceled |
| Nevada-Las Vegas | All games canceled |
| New Jersey Tech | All games canceled |
| New Mexico | All games canceled |
| New Mexico State | All games canceled |
| New Orleans | All games canceled |
| Niagara | All games canceled |
| Nicholls State | All games canceled |
| Norfolk State | Play suspended through spring semester |
| North Alabama | All games canceled |
| North Carolina | All games canceled |
| North Carolina A&T | Play suspended through spring semester |
| North Carolina Central | Play suspended through spring semester |
| North Carolina State | All games canceled |
| North Dakota State | All games canceled |
| North Florida | All games canceled |
| Northeastern | All games canceled |
| Northern Colorado | All games canceled |
| Northern Illinois | All games canceled |
| Northern Kentucky | All games canceled |
| Northwestern | All games canceled |
| Northwestern State | All games canceled |
| Notre Dame | All games canceled |
| Oakland | All games canceled |
| Ohio | All games canceled |
| Ohio State | All games canceled |
| Oklahoma | All games canceled |
| Oklahoma State | All games canceled |
| Old Dominion | All games canceled |
| Oral Roberts | All games canceled |
| Oregon | All games canceled |
| Oregon State | All games canceled |
| Pacific | All games canceled |
| Penn State | All games canceled |
| Pennsylvania | All games canceled |
| Pepperdine | All games canceled |
| Pittsburgh | All games canceled |
| Portland | All games canceled |
| Prairie View A&M | All games canceled |
| Presbyterian | All games canceled |
| Princeton | All games canceled |
| Purdue | All games canceled |
| Purdue Fort Wayne | All games canceled |
| Quinnipiac | All games canceled |
| Radford | All games canceled |
| Rhode Island | All games canceled |
| Rice | All games canceled |
| Richmond | All games canceled |
| Rider | All games canceled |
| Rutgers | All games canceled |
| Sacramento State | All games canceled |
| Sacred Heart | All games canceled |
| Saint Bonaventure | All games canceled |
| Saint John’s | All games canceled |
| Saint Joseph’s | All games canceled |
| Saint Louis | All games canceled |
| Saint Mary’s | All games canceled |
| Saint Peter’s | All games canceled |
| Samford | All games canceled |
| Sam Houston State | All games canceled |
| San Diego | All games canceled |
| San Diego State | All games canceled |
| San Francisco | All games canceled |
| San Jose State | All games canceled |
| Santa Clara | All games canceled |
| Seattle | All games canceled |
| Seton Hall | All games canceled |
| Siena | All games canceled |
| South Alabama | All games canceled |
| South Carolina | All games canceled |
| South Carolina-Upstate | All games canceled |
| South Dakota State | All games canceled |
| South Florida | All games canceled |
| Southeast Missouri State | All games canceled |
| Southeastern Louisiana | All games canceled |
| Southern | All games canceled |
| Southern California | All games canceled |
| Southern Illinois | All games canceled |
| Southern Illinois-Edwardsville | All games canceled |
| Southern Mississippi | All games canceled |
| Stanford | All games canceled |
| Stephen F. Austin | All games canceled |
| Stetson | All games canceled |
| Stony Brook | All games canceled |
| Tennessee | All games canceled |
| Tennessee-Martin | All games canceled |
| Tennessee Tech | All games canceled |
| Texas | All games canceled |
| Texas A&M | All games canceled |
| Texas A&M-Corpus Christi | All games canceled |
| Texas-Arlington | All games canceled |
| Texas Christian | All games canceled |
| Texas-Rio Grande Valley | All games canceled |
| Texas-San Antonio | All games canceled |
| Texas Southern | All games canceled |
| Texas State | All games canceled |
| Texas Tech | All games canceled |
| Toledo | All games canceled |
| Towson | All games canceled |
| Troy | All games canceled |
| Tulane | All games canceled |
| UC Davis | All games canceled |
| UC Irvine | All games canceled |
| UC Riverside | All games canceled |
| UC Santa Barbara | All games canceled |
| UCLA | All games canceled |
| UNC Asheville | All games canceled |
| UNC Greensboro | All games canceled |
| UNC Wilmington | All games canceled |
| Utah | All games canceled |
| Utah Valley | All games canceled |
| Valparaiso | All games canceled |
| Vanderbilt | All games canceled |
| Villanova | All games canceled |
| Virginia | All games canceled |
| Virginia Commonwealth | All games cancelled |
| Virginia Military Institute | All games canceled |
| Virginia Tech | All games canceled |
| Wagner | All games canceled |
| Wake Forest | All games canceled |
| Washington | All games canceled |
| Washington State | All games canceled |
| Wichita State | All games canceled |
| Winthrop | All games canceled |
| Wisconsin-Milwaukee | All games canceled |
| West Virginia | All games canceled |
| Western Carolina | All games canceled |
| Western Illinois | All games canceled |
| Western Kentucky | All games canceled |
| Western Michigan | All games canceled |
| William & Mary | All games canceled |
| Wofford | All games canceled |
| Wright State | All games canceled |
| Xavier | All games canceled |
| Yale | All games canceled |
| Youngstown State | All games canceled |
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