by Alan Hoskins, KCKCC
Kansas City Kansas Community College will not get a shot at winning the NJCAA Division II men’s national basketball championship.
Because of the coronavirus, the National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) announced Wednesday it was canceling the men’s and women’s national basketball tournaments in both Division I and II that had tentatively been rescheduled for April 20.
The Blue Devils had qualified for the national tourney by defeating Johnson County 75-68 in the Plains District championship game.
In announcing the cancellation, the NJCAA also canceled all spring sports for 2020, thus ending the baseball, softball and golf seasons for KCKCC teams.