What March Madness looks like on college campuses during the pandemic

Courtesy of Gonzaga UniversityBy MEREDITH DELISO, ABC News

(SPOKANE, Wash.) — During March Madness at Gonzaga University, students typically are found camped around the Spokane, Washington, campus, or packed into its arena to root on the Bulldogs — if they didn’t travel to the tournament cities themselves.

This year, of course, is different. Non-essential travel is discouraged by the state, and on-campus watch parties are limited to up to a couple hundred students, seated by household “pods,” on the lawn outside the student center.

“March is a major production at Gonzaga, and what we’re doing is such a scaled-down version of that,