Augustas Cetkauskas/iStock(PRINCETON, N.J.) — The spread of coronavirus, or COVID-19, has prompted the Ivy League to cancel conference tournaments for both men’s and women’s basketball.

The Ivy League announced its decision to cancel the tournaments Tuesday, calling the regular-season champions — Princeton women and Yale men — the automatic qualifiers to the NCAA Tournaments.

The Ivy League has decided to cancel the League's upcoming Basketball Tournaments and implement highly-restrictive, in-venue spectator limitations for all other upcoming campus athletics events.