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Realistically it will not happen. The athletes are barred from all school events until at least April 6, 2020. That is just the initial downtime. The virus has not even hit the United States in full yet. That would mean they would have to try to get some practices in a short period of time. Testing will begin in May. They cannot interfere with that. With the NCAA canceling, I just don’t see it happening.

High school basketball is nothing like college basketball in terms of the point in the season that teams were at when play halted, the amount of spending that schools have to do (especially the burden that this puts on smaller schools), and the logistics involved with cross-country travel, securing venues, and managing television and broadcast rights.

Rupp Arena also isn't so booked with large events that makes finding dates difficult, and even if that were the case, there are other sites that could probably be arranged.

I'd rather see sloppy play in a condensed June tournament that teams went into with little prep time than nothing at all. The former at least gives those who earned it the chance to play in Rupp and compete for a state championship.

I'd even go as far as to say that, for most kids on teams that aren't likely to win it all (i.e., Knox Central, Hazard, West Jessamine, Martin County, George Rogers Clark, and to a lesser extent maybe Ashland Blazer and Scott County), that it's the experience of playing in Rupp and getting to play that one game that matters, even if the semis or quarters were then played at the Yum! Center, Memorial Coliseum, Freedom Hall, NKU, EKU, WKU, Frankfort, etc.

At the same time, I'd also say that the majority of the teams actually capable of winning it (i.e., especially your Male, Collins, Fern Creek, Elizabethtown, Warren Central, Madisonville-North Hopkins, and possibly even McCracken County) probably inversely care about the experience of playing in Rupp and would mostly be fine with it being held in Louisville if that's what getting their shot meant. I'd go as far as to say that many of those teams would actually prefer that it was held in Louisville annually.