2020 Bengaluru drug raids
The police claimed these accused were selling their products to affluent sections of Bangalore society. Other searches were made at properties allegedly belonging to major Sandalwood stars. In light of the busts, Kannada filmmaker Indrajit Lankesh, brother of Gauri Lankesh, alleged 15 members of the Sandalwood were involved in the drugs racket, and accordingly gave a statement to police. As of 8 September, six people had been arrested in connection with the case, including two Sandalwood actors: Ragini Dwivedi and Sanjjana, and Viren Khanna, a celebrity party organizer, at whose house a police uniform was allegedly found.


2020 Bengaluru drug raids
Other children of politicians and other VIPs are also sought by the police in connection with the case, including Aditya Alva, the son of former minister Jeevaraj Alva and brother-in-law of actor Vivek Oberoi, who allegedly rented out his property for parties at which drugs were consumed. An FIR was registered against 12 people allegedly involved in the scandal, including Jayaprakash, a film producer, Dwivedi, Sanjjana, and Alva. They were suspected of buying drugs from Loum Pepper Samba, an alleged drug peddler from Senegal. The bail pleas of Dwivedi and Sanjjana were rejected 3 November. Bineesh Kodiyeri, son of a Kerala minister, had his house raided on 5 November as part of a money-laundering investigation relating to drug sales in Bangalore.


2020 Bengaluru drug raids
The story has gained significant media attention and has led to statements from superstars such as Yash and Sivarajkumar. The story has also taken a political turn, as both the ruling BJP and opposition Congress and JD (S) claimed each party was involved with the scandal. The BJP, in particular, sought to distance itself from Dwivedi, who, according to the party, "voluntarily" campaigned in the 2019 Karnataka by-elections for the BJP. The arrest of Kodiyeri had political ramifications in Kerala, where his father, Kodiyeri Balakrishnan, is a CPI-M leader.


2020 Beninese municipal elections
Municipal elections were held in Benin on 17 May 2020 to elect all councillors in every municipality and commune. The elections took place despite the COVID-19 pandemic.


2020 Beninese municipal elections, Background
The election came only a year after the highly controversial 2019 parliamentary election which had seen new electoral laws and financial requirements prevent opposition parties running and saw the two parties aligned with President Patrice Talon, Progressive Union and Republican Bloc, secure the National Assembly.


2020 Beninese municipal elections, Background
These same constraints also severely suppressed opposition parties for the 2020 local election. The African Court of Human and Peoples' Rights even called for the election to be postponed but the Beninese authorities went ahead.


2020 Beninese municipal elections, Electoral system
The 1,815 councillors were elected in 546 districts of the 77 communes of Benin. Councillors were elected by multi-member proportional voting system with a double electoral threshold which means that to be able to obtain councillors, a party must obtain at least 10% of the votes cast at the level of the constituency, as well as at the national level.


2020 Beninese municipal elections, Campaign
Owing to the political situation and the worsening Covid-19 pandemic opposition parties called for a boycott of the polls. COVID-19 meant that campaigning was severely restricted with rallies of more than 50 people banned. This led to posters and media appearances becoming the main campaign strategy of each party.


2020 Beninese municipal elections, Campaign
Covid also meant that face masks had to be worn in order to vote and social distancing measures were brought into place at polling stations.


2020 Beninese municipal elections, Results
Turnout was around 50%. Only three parties crossed the electoral threshold of 10% of the vote at the national level. Out of the 77 mayors elected by the municipal councillors elected in this election, 71 belong to the two main parties who are both supporters of the president Patrice Talon. The other 6 went to Cowry Forces for an Emerging Benin.


2020 Berlin ePrix
The 2020 Berlin ePrix (formally the 2020 Berlin E-Prix presented by CBMM Niobium) was a series of six Formula E races held at the Tempelhof Airport Street Circuit at Tempelhof Airport in the outskirts of Berlin between 5 and 13 August 2020. It formed the final six races of the 2019–20 Formula E season and was the sixth edition of the Berlin ePrix.


2020 Berlin ePrix
The event was promoted as 9 Days, 6 Races, 3 Tracks, 1 Champion; and The Season Six Finale.


2020 Berlin ePrix, Report, Background
The Berlin ePrix was confirmed as part of Formula E's 2019–20 series schedule by the FIA World Motor Sport Council. It's the final six of twelve scheduled single-seater electric car races of the 2019–20 season, and the sixth running of the event. The ePrix was held using three different layouts at Tempelhof Airport Street Circuit at Berlin Tempelhof Airport between 5 and 13 August 2020.


2020 Berlin ePrix, Report, Background
Entering the race, DS Techeetah driver António Félix da Costa was leading the Drivers' Championship with 67 points, followed by Jaguar's driver Mitch Evans in second 11 points behind, and third placed Andretti-BMW's driver Alexander Sims 21 points behind the championship leader. In the team's standings, Techeetah lead with 98 points, followed behind by Andretti-BMW with 90 and Jaguar down in 3rd with 66 points.


2020 Berlin ePrix, Report, Circuit layouts
The track layouts for the 9 days event were made available to the drivers and constructors on 21 July 2020.


2020 Berlin ePrix, Report, Circuit layouts
The 6 races were further split into three 'double headers', each with a different track layout. The first two races (5 and 6 August) were carried out in the reverse layout, with drivers driving the usual Tempelhof circuit in a clockwise direction (the circuit is normally driven in anti-clockwise direction). The second double header (8 and 9 August) were driven in the traditional Tempelhof circuit layout (i.e. anti-clockwise direction). The last double header (12 and 13 August) use an extended circuit layout, with more turns added to the middle and final sectors of the track. Organizers billed this track layout as 'more technical'.


2020 Bermudian general election
The 2020 Bermudian general election was held on 1 October 2020 to elect all 36 members to the House of Assembly of Bermuda. On 21 August 2020 Premier Edward David Burt announced that Governor of Bermuda John Rankin has accepted his advice to call a snap election. The election resulted in the largest victory for one party since party politics began in Bermuda in 1968, as the Progressive Labour Party won 62% of the vote and 30 of 36 seats (including 3 seats where they ran unopposed).


2020 Bermudian general election, Electoral system
The 36 members of the House of Assembly are elected from single-member constituencies by first-past-the-post voting.


2020 Bermudian general election, Candidates by Parish
The announced candidates are presented below, along with the incumbent candidates before the election. MPs who are not standing for re-election are marked (†). Government ministers and speakers are in bold, and party leaders are in italics.


2020 Best of Nollywood Awards
The 2020 Best of Nollywood Awards was the 12th edition of the ceremony and took place in Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State on 5 December 2020. The event was co-hosted by Tana Adelana and Debo Macaroni while the Ekiti State governor, Kayode Fayemi served as the chief host.


2020 Best of Nollywood Awards
Living in Bondage: Breaking Free by Charles Okpaleke and This Lady Called Life by Kayode Kasum were identified as the biggest winners of the awards show.


2020 Bett1Hulks Championship
The 2020 Bett1Hulks Championship is a ATP tournament organised for male professional tennis players, held in Cologne, Germany, in mid-October 2020 on indoor hard courts. It was primarily organised due to the cancellation of many tournaments during the 2020 season, because of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. It is the first edition of the tournament, and it will take place at the Lanxess Arena in Cologne, Germany, from October 19 through 25, 2020.


2020 Bett1Hulks Championship, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2020 Bett1Hulks Championship, Doubles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:


2020 Bett1Hulks Championship – Doubles
This is the first edition of the tournament, primarily organised due to the cancellation of many tournaments in 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.


2020 Bett1Hulks Championship – Doubles
Raven Klaasen and Ben McLachlan won the title, defeating Kevin Krawietz and Andreas Mies in the final, 6–2, 6–4.


2020 Bett1Hulks Championship – Singles
First seed Alexander Zverev won the tournament, defeating second seed Diego Schwartzman 6–2, 6–1 in the final. This was the first edition of the tournament, primarily organised due to the cancellation of many tournaments in 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.


2020 Bett1Hulks Championship – Singles, Seeds
The top four seeds received a bye into the second round.


2020 Bett1Hulks Indoors
The 2020 Bett1Hulks Indoors is a ATP tournament organised for male professional tennis players, held in Cologne, Germany, in mid-October 2020 on indoor hard courts. It was primarily organised due to the cancellation of many tournaments during the 2020 season, because of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. It is the first edition of the tournament and took place at the Lanxess Arena in Cologne, Germany, from October 12 through 18, 2020.


2020 Bett1Hulks Indoors, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2020 Bett1Hulks Indoors, Doubles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:


2020 Bett1Hulks Indoors – Doubles
This was the first edition of the tournament, primarily organised due to the cancellation of many tournaments in 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.


2020 Bett1Hulks Indoors – Doubles
Pierre-Hugues Herbert and Nicolas Mahut won the title, defeating Łukasz Kubot and Marcelo Melo in the final, 6–4, 6–4.


2020 Bett1Hulks Indoors – Singles
First seed Alexander Zverev won the tournament, defeating third seed Félix Auger-Aliassime 6–3, 6–3 in the final. This was the first edition of the tournament, primarily organised due to the cancellation of many tournaments in 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.


2020 Bett1Hulks Indoors – Singles, Seeds
The top four seeds received a bye into the second round.


2020 Bhutan Premier League
The 2020 Bhutan Premier League was the ninth season of unified league, rebranded as the Bhutan Premier League since 2019 (previously the Bhutan National League), the top national football competition in Bhutan, having replaced the A-Division in 2013.


2020 Bhutan Premier League
The Bhutan Football Federation implemented the same league structure as the 2019 season. The top division is named Bhutan Premier League (BPL). The other division is named Bhutan Super League (BSL), replacing Thimphu League as qualifying competition for the Premier League. The lowest division is named Dzongkhag League where teams play in their respective districts (Dzongkhags) to gain promotion to the Super League.


2020 Bhutan Premier League, Super League
The 2020 Bhutan Super League featured eight teams, one fewer than last season. One more team from Dzongkhag League was promoted instead of dissolved Phuentsholing United.


2020 Bhutan Premier League, Super League, Regular season
The regular season was played in single round-robin format. It started on 6 February, which was delayed from the scheduled start of 1 February, and ended on 11 March.


2020 Bhutan Premier League, Premier League
The 2020 Bhutan Premier League featured eight teams, two fewer than last season. The league started on 1 August 2020, after a delay due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Bhutan, and most matches were played behind closed doors. On 11 August 2020, the league was suspended until further notice due to the nationwide lockdown. It has resumed again from 17 September 2020.


2020 Bhutan Premier League, Premier League, Teams
BFF Academy U-19 (fifth in 2019 Bhutan Premier League), Druk United (sixth in 2019 Bhutan Premier League), and BFF Academy U-17 (fifth in 2020 Bhutan Super League) all withdrew.


2020 Big 12 Championship Game
The 2020 Big 12 Championship Game was a college football game played on Saturday, December 19, 2020, at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas between the Iowa State Cyclones and the Oklahoma Sooners. The 19th Big 12 Championship Game, it determined the 2020 champion of the Big 12 Conference. Sponsored by soft drink brand Dr Pepper, the game is officially known as the Dr Pepper Big 12 Championship Game.


2020 Big 12 Championship Game
This was the fourth year of the current division-less format of the game; instead of representatives from two divisions, the two teams with the best conference records from a full round-robin conference schedule earned a spot in the game. The Big 12 Championship Game featured the winners of the former North and South divisions from 1996 to 2010, and the conference did not have a championship game from 2011 to 2016.


2020 Big 12 Championship Game
The game was originally scheduled for December 5 but rescheduled to December 12 when the new schedule was released, and was eventually pushed even further back to December 19 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.


2020 Big 12 Championship Game, Previous season
The 2019 Big 12 Championship Game featured Oklahoma against Baylor. It was Baylor's first appearance in the conference title game. Oklahoma had won the regular-season game in Waco 34–31. In the championship game, Oklahoma was victorious by a score of 30–23 in overtime, winning their fifth consecutive and 14th overall Big 12 Conference championship.


2020 Big 12 Championship Game, Teams
The 2020 Championship game was contested by Iowa State and Oklahoma. The teams met 85 times previously, with Oklahoma leading the series 76–7–2. Iowa State defeated Oklahoma 37–30 in their regular season match-up.


2020 Big 12 Championship Game, Teams, Iowa State
Iowa State, led by head coach Matt Campbell, clinched a berth in the championship game after defeating West Virginia on December 5, 2020. This marked their first appearance in a Big 12 Championship Game.


2020 Big 12 Championship Game, Teams, Oklahoma
Oklahoma, led by head coach Lincoln Riley, was the defending Big 12 champion. They clinched a berth in the championship game after defeating Baylor on December 5, 2020. This marked their 12th overall Big 12 championship game appearance.


2020 Big 12 Conference Baseball Tournament
The 2020 Big 12 Conference Baseball Tournament was scheduled to be held from May 20 through May 24 at Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The annual tournament determines the conference champion of the Division I Big 12 Conference for college baseball. The winner of the tournament would have earned the league's automatic bid to the 2020 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament.


2020 Big 12 Conference Baseball Tournament
The tournament has been held since 1997, the inaugural year of the Big 12 Conference. Among current league members, Texas has won the most championships with five. Among original members, Kansas State has never won the event. Oklahoma State won their third championship in 2019. Iowa State discontinued their program after the 2001 season without having won a title. Having joined in 2013, TCU won their first title in 2014 while West Virginia has yet to win the Tournament.


2020 Big 12 Conference Baseball Tournament
On March 12, 2020, the NCAA cancelled all winter and spring sports championships due to the coronavirus pandemic, thus cancelling the tournament.


2020 Big 12 Conference Softball Tournament
The 2020 Big 12 Conference Softball Tournament was scheduled to be held May 8 through May 9, 2020 at ASA Hall of Fame Stadium in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The tournament winner would have earned the Big 12 Conference's automatic bid to the 2020 NCAA Division I Softball Tournament.


2020 Big 12 Conference Softball Tournament
On March 12, 2020, the NCAA cancelled all winter and spring sports championships due to the coronavirus pandemic, thus cancelling the tournament.


2020 Big 12 Conference Women's Basketball Tournament
The 2020 Phillips 66 Big 12 Conference Women's Basketball Tournament was a postseason tournament for the Big 12 Conference that was scheduled to be held from March 12 to 15, 2020, in Kansas City, Missouri, at the Municipal Auditorium. On March 12, the NCAA announced that the tournament was cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic before any games were played.


2020 Big 12 Conference football season
The 2020 Big 12 Conference football season is the 25th season of the Big 12 Conference football taking place during the 2020 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The season began on September 3 with non-conference play. Conference play began on September 19, 2020. The entire schedule was released on October 21, 2019.


2020 Big 12 Conference football season
The 2020 season will be the ninth season for the Big 12 since the early 2010s conference realignment brought the Big 12 membership to its current form.


2020 Big 12 Conference football season
As a ten-team league, the Big 12 was scheduled to play a nine-game round-robin conference schedule and each member playing three non-conference games, one of which must be against a Power Five conference foe, however, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, all power five conference games were canceled, and each team will only play one non-conference game. The regular season will be followed by a conference championship game between the regular-season champion and the regular season runner-up.


2020 Big 12 Conference football season
The 2020 Big 12 Championship Game was played at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, on December 19, 2020, and ended with Oklahoma claiming their sixth Big 12 title in a row by defeating the Iowa State Cyclones, 27–21.


2020 Big 12 Conference football season, Background, Previous season
In the 2019 season, Oklahoma defeated Baylor 27–20 in overtime in the conference championship.


2020 Big 12 Conference football season, Background, Previous season
Six teams were invited to bowl games in the 2019 season, and the conference went 1–5 in those games. Oklahoma earned the #4 seed in the College Football Playoff, but fell to LSU 28–63 in the Peach Bowl.


2020 Big 12 Conference football season, Preseason, Big 12 media days
The 2020 Big 12 media days will be held on July 21–22 in Frisco, Texas.


2020 Big 12 Conference football season, Head coaches
There was only one head coaching change in the conference following the conclusion of the 2019 season. On January 7, 2020, Baylor Bears coach Matt Rhule was hired as the new coach of the Carolina Panthers of the National Football League (NFL) after three years at the school. He was replaced by Dave Aranda on January 20, 2020.


2020 Big 12 Conference football season, Schedule
The regular season will begin on September 12, 2020 and will end on December 5, 2020. The season will conclude with the 2020 Big 12 Championship Game on December 19, 2020. The schedule is subject to changes due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Changes may include cancellation of individual games, cancellation of non-conference games, games played without fans in attendance, or the cancellation of the entire season. Multiple conferences have already canceled portions of or the entire season. As of August 8, 2020, fourteen non-conference games involving a Big 12 team have been canceled due to the pandemic. The Big 12 announced on August 3 that all teams will play 10 games, 9 conference games and 1 non-conference game. on August 12, the revised schedule was released


2020 Big 12 Conference football season, Postseason, Bowl games
The Big 12 Conference earned two spots in the New Years Six with both participants in the Big 12 Championship earning a spot. The Big 12 has accomplished this for the third straight year.


2020 Big 12 Conference football season, Postseason, Bowl games
Rankings are from CFP rankings. All times Central Time Zone. Big 12 teams shown in bold.


2020 Big 12 Conference football season, Big 12 vs other conferences, Big 12 vs Power 5 matchups
This is a list of the Power Five conferences teams (ACC, Big Ten, Pac-12, Notre Dame, BYU and SEC). Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, The Big 12 had eleven scheduled games against Power Five conferences, however, each one was canceled. All of the other Power Five conferences initially announced that they would go on with their season as scheduled, but with cuts to non-conference games, The Big Ten, Pac-12, and SEC were all limiting play to in-conference games only. The ACC and Big 12 are allowing one non-conference game. The Big Ten and Pac 12 have postponed fall sports due to COVID-19 concerns.


2020 Big 12 Conference football season, Big 12 vs other conferences, Big 12 vs Group of Five matchups
The following games include Big 12 teams competing against teams from The American, C-USA, MAC, Mountain West or Sun Belt. On August 8, the MAC announced the postponement of all fall sports for the 2020 season, including football. On August 10, the Mountain West followed the MAC as the second Group of Five conference to postpone fall sports indefinitely. On August 10, Rice announced it was the delaying the start of it season until September 26.


2020 Big 12 Conference football season, Big 12 vs other conferences, Big 12 vs FBS independents matchups
The following games include Big 12 teams competing against FBS Independents which include Army, Liberty, New Mexico State, UConn and UMass. UConn, announced that they would opt out of the 2020 season. UMass announced that they would opt of playing fall football and hopes to construct a season in spring 2021. New Mexico State announced that they would opt out of playing fall football and try to play in spring 2021.


2020 Big 12 Conference football season, Big 12 vs other conferences, Big 12 vs FCS matchups
The Football Championship Subdivision comprises 13 conferences and two independent programs. All conferences and teams have postponed their fall conference schedules, The Big South, (James Madison, Elon, Villanova from the CAA), Missouri Valley Football Conference, Ohio Valley Conference, SoCon, and Southland Conference are allowing the option of playing out-of-conference games only


2020 Big 12 Conference football season, NFL draft
The following list includes all Big 12 players who were drafted in the 2021 NFL Draft.


2020 Big 12 Men's Basketball Tournament
The 2020 Phillips 66 Big 12 Men's Basketball Tournament was a postseason men's basketball tournament for the Big 12 Conference. It was scheduled to be played from March 11 to 14, in Kansas City, Missouri at the Sprint Center. The winner would have received the conference's automatic bid to the 2020 NCAA Tournament.


2020 Big 12 Men's Basketball Tournament
On March 11, 2020, Big 12 commissioner Bob Bowlsby announced that fans would not be allowed to attend the tournament beginning with the games on March 12 due to concerns over the COVID-19 pandemic. The two First Round games that took place on March 11 were completed with fans in attendance. The rest of the tournament was scheduled to be completed without fans in attendance. The following day, the conference announced it had cancelled the tournament completely. Later that same day, the NCAA Tournament was canceled before the conference named their automatic bid.


2020 Big 12 Men's Basketball Tournament, Seeds
All 10 conference teams were slated to participate in the tournament. The top six teams earned a first round bye.


2020 Big 12 Men's Basketball Tournament, Seeds
Teams were be seeded by record within the conference, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records.


2020 Big East Conference Baseball Tournament
The 2020 Big East Conference Baseball Tournament was scheduled to be held at Prasco Park in Mason, Ohio from May 21 through May 24. The event, held at the end of the conference regular season, determines the champion of the Big East Conference for the 2020 season. The winner of the double-elimination tournament would have received the conference's automatic bid to the 2020 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament.


2020 Big East Conference Baseball Tournament
On March 12, 2020, the NCAA cancelled all winter and spring sports championships due to the coronavirus pandemic, thus cancelling the tournament.


2020 Big East Conference Men's Soccer Tournament
The 2020 Big East Men's Soccer Tournament was the 8th edition of the Big East Conference Men's Soccer Tournament. The tournament decided the Big East Conference champion and guaranteed representative into the 2020 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Tournament.


2020 Big East Conference Men's Soccer Tournament, Background
The 2020 Big East Conference Men's Soccer Tournament was originally to be played in November of 2020. However, the Big East Conference postponed all fall sports with the hope to play them in the spring.


2020 Big East Conference Men's Soccer Tournament, Format
The top two teams in each division (east and midwest) qualified for the tournament. The tournament was hosted by the number 1 overall seed, Georgetown.


2020 Big East Conference men's soccer season
The 2020 Big East Conference men's soccer season will be the eighth season for the realigned Big East Conference. Including the history of the original Big East Conference, this will be the 25th season of men's soccer under the "Big East Conference" name.


2020 Big East Conference men's soccer season
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the fall season was postponed to the spring.


2020 Big East Conference men's soccer season
Entering the season, Georgetown were the defending conference tournament champions, as well as the defending conference regular season champions.


2020 Big East Conference men's soccer season, Spring 2021 season
The earliest that the season can start is February 3, 2021. The latest possible date is April 17.


2020 Big East Conference men's soccer season, Spring 2021 season, Preseason poll
The preseason poll will be released in December 2020 or January 2021.


2020 Big East Conference men's soccer season, Spring 2021 season, Preseason national polls
The preseason national polls were originally to be released in July and August 2020. Only CollegeSoccerNews.com released a preseason poll for 2020.


2020 Big East Conference men's soccer season, MLS SuperDraft
The MLS SuperDraft was held on January 21, 2021 and was held virtually through its website. A total of five players from the Big East Conference were selected in the Draft. A record four Georgetown players were drafted.


2020 Big East Men's Basketball Tournament
The 2020 Big East Men's Basketball Tournament was the postseason tournament men's basketball tournament for the Big East Conference. It was to have been held from March 11 through March 14, 2020, at Madison Square Garden in New York City, and the two first-round games were played on March 11.


2020 Big East Men's Basketball Tournament
Early on March 12, amid concerns over the spreading COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, the Big East Conference issued a statement that it would limit attendance during the rest of the tournament to student-athletes, coaches, team staff, event staff, essential media, and immediate family members  The first quarterfinal game, with Creighton facing St. John's, began on March 12, but during halftime, with St. John's leading 38–35, the Big East Conference cancelled the rest of the game and all remaining tournament games in order to further reduce the possibility of spreading the SARS-CoV-2 virus responsible for cases of COVID-19. It was the first cancellation of the tournament since its foundation in 1980. Despite the cancellation of the tournament, the conference was able to receive an insurance payout of $10.5 million as a result of the tournament's insurance policy.


2020 Big East Men's Basketball Tournament
The winner was to have received the conference's bid to the 2020 NCAA Tournament, which also was cancelled on March 12, 2020.


2020 Big East Men's Basketball Tournament, Seeds
All 10 Big East schools were slated to participate in the tournament. Teams were seeded by the conference record with tie-breaking procedures to determine the seeds for teams with identical conference records. The top six teams received first-round byes. Seeding for the tournament was determined at the close of the regular conference season.


2020 Big East Men's Basketball Tournament, Schedule
*Attendance by the general public was restricted due to the COVID-19 pandemic


2020 Big East Women's Basketball Tournament
The 2020 Big East Women's Basketball Tournament took place March 6-9, 2020 and was held at Wintrust Arena in Chicago, Illinois. The winner received the conference's automatic bid to the 2020 NCAA Tournament.


2020 Big Sky Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
The 2020 Big Sky Conference Men's Basketball Tournament was the 45th postseason tournament for the Big Sky Conference, scheduled for March 11–14 at CenturyLink Arena in Boise, Idaho. The champion would have earned the Big Sky's berth in the 68-team NCAA tournament.


2020 Big Sky Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, play was suspended prior to the quarterfinals on Thursday, March 12, and not completed; the NCAA tournament was soon cancelled.


2020 Big Sky Conference Men's Basketball Tournament, Seeds
All eleven teams participated and were seeded by conference record, with a tiebreaker system; the top five teams received a first-round bye.


2020 Big Sky Conference Women's Basketball Tournament
The 2020 Big Sky Conference Women's Basketball Tournament was a postseason tournament that was scheduled to be played from March 9–13, 2020, at CenturyLink Arena in Boise, Idaho. The winner of the tournament would have earned an automatic bid to the 2020 NCAA Tournament. On March 12, the NCAA announced that the tournament was cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic.


2020 Big South Conference Baseball Tournament
The 2020 Big South Conference Baseball Tournament was scheduled to be held from May 19–23. The top eight regular season finishers of the conference's ten teams would have met in the double-elimination tournament to be held at Segra Stadium in Fayetteville, North Carolina. The tournament champion would have earned the conference's automatic bid to the 2020 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament. On March 12, 2020, the NCAA cancelled all winter and spring sports championships due to the coronavirus pandemic, thus cancelling the tournament.


2020 Big South Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
The 2020 Big South Men's Basketball Tournament was the postseason men's basketball tournament that ended the 2019–20 NCAA Division I men's basketball season of the Big South Conference. It was be held from March 3 through March 8, 2020 at various campus sites. The Winthrop Eagles received the automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament after defeating Hampton 76–68 in the championship game.


2020 Big South Conference Men's Basketball Tournament, Sites
The first round was played at campus sites at the home of the higher seed. The quarterfinals and semifinals were played at the home of regular-season champion and No. 1 seed. The championship game was held at the home of the highest remaining seed after the semifinals.


2020 Big South Conference Men's Basketball Tournament, Seeds
All 11 conference teams are eligible for the tournament. The top five teams receive a first-round bye. Teams are seeded by record within the conference, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records.


2020 Big South Conference Women's Basketball Tournament
The 2020 Big South Women's Basketball Tournament was the postseason women's basketball tournament that ended the 2019–20 season of the Big South Conference. It was scheduled be held from March 10 through March 15, 2020, at various campus sites. The winner would have received the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament. On March 12, the NCAA announced that the tournament was cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic.


2020 Big South Conference Women's Basketball Tournament, Sites
The first round will be played at campus sites at the home of the higher seed. The quarterfinals and semifinals will be played at #1 and #2 seeds. The championship game will be held at the home arena of the higher surviving seed.


2020 Big South Conference Women's Basketball Tournament, Seeds
All 11 conference teams are eligible for the tournament. The top five teams will receive a first-round bye. Teams are seeded by record within the conference, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records.


2020 Big South Conference men's soccer season
The 2020 Big South Conference men's soccer season is the 37th season of men's varsity soccer in the conference. The season is scheduled to begin on February 21 and conclude on April 8, 2021.


2020 Big South Conference men's soccer season
The season was originally scheduled to be played from August 28 to November 6, 2020, but was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.


2020 Big South Conference men's soccer season, Background, Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the season
The COVID-19 pandemic widely disrupted all sporting activities across the NCAA, including men's soccer. Prior to the pandemic, the regular season was scheduled to begin on August 30, 2020 and conclude on November 6, 2020 culminating with the Big South Tournament in mid-November and the NCAA Tournament in late November into mid-December.


2020 Big South Conference men's soccer season, Background, Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the season
On July 22, 2020, the conference announced plans to begin the season during the fall 2020 semester, with a September 3 start date. On August 12, 2020, the conference reversed its decision, cancelling fall sporting activities, and targeting a spring 2021 semester start for all fall sports.


2020 Big South Conference men's soccer season, Background, Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the season
Details around the spring 2021 season became known on November 5, 2020 when the Big South Conference announced the schedule for the spring of 2021. Teams would play an eight-match conference schedule starting on February 21, 2021. Teams are permitted to schedule three non-conference matches, starting no earlier than February 14, 2021. The final game of the regular season is scheduled for April 8, 2021.


2020 Big South Conference men's soccer season, Background, Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the season
The tournament was reduced to four teams and will begin on April 12, 2021 and conclude on April 18, 2021.


2020 Big South Conference men's soccer season, Preseason, Preseason national polls
The preseason national rankings are normally announced in August. United Soccer Coaches, Soccer America, and TopDrawerSoccer.com delayed their Top-25 preseason poll to the start of the spring season. CollegeSoccerNews.com did a Top-30 preseason poll in September 2020. TopDrawer Soccer, Soccer America, and United Soccer Coaches released their rankings in February 2021.


2020 Big South Conference men's soccer season, Postseason, Big South Tournament
The top four teams will qualify for the tournament. The tournament will be played April 12–18.


2020 Big South Conference men's soccer season, Postseason, NCAA Tournament
The Big South Tournament winner will qualify for the NCAA Tournament. Other teams can still earn an at-large bid into the tournament.


2020 Big South Conference men's soccer season, MLS SuperDraft, Notable undrafted players
The following players went pro after the 2020 season despite not getting drafted in the 2021 MLS draft.


2020 Big Ten Baseball Tournament
The 2020 Big Ten Conference Baseball Tournament was scheduled to be held at TD Ameritrade Park Omaha in Omaha, Nebraska from May 20 through 24. On March 12, 2020, the Big Ten Conference cancelled the tournament due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States.


2020 Big Ten Conference football season
The 2020 Big Ten conference football season is the 125th season of college football play for the Big Ten Conference and part of the 2020 NCAA Division I FBS football season. This was the Big Ten's seventh season with 14 teams. The defending league champion was Ohio State.


2020 Big Ten Conference football season
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, the conference voted on August 11, 2020 to indefinitely postpone all fall athletics, including football, citing the worsening trends of the pandemic in the country. On September 16, the conference approved a shortened, eight-game football season beginning October 24, with the final week featuring the Big Ten championship game on December 19.


2020 Big Ten Conference football season
The Big Ten had two new coaches for the 2020 season. Rutgers hired former coach Greg Schiano to serve as head coach, replacing Chris Ash who was fired during the 2019 season. Michigan State head coach Mark Dantonio announced on February 4, 2020, that he was retiring from his position. The Spartans announced the hiring of Mel Tucker as the new head coach on February 12, 2020. On December 13, Illinois fired its head coach Lovie Smith, and on December 19 announced the hiring of Bret Bielema as its new head coach.


2020 Big Ten Conference football season, Previous season
On the field of play last season, Ohio State won the East Division title and made their fifth appearance in the Big Ten Championship Game and third consecutive appearance. In the West Division, Wisconsin and Minnesota tied for the division title, but the Badgers represented the division in the conference title game due to their head-to-head win over the Golden Gophers. Wisconsin made their sixth appearance in the conference title game overall. In that championship game, Ohio State defeated Wisconsin 34–21 to win their third consecutive Big Ten championship. With that win, the Buckeyes landed a spot in the 2019–20 College Football Playoff as the #2 seed.


2020 Big Ten Conference football season, Previous season
Nine teams participated in bowl games in the 2018 season, and the league went 5–4 in those games. Ohio State made the College Football Playoff but fell to Clemson 29–23 in the Fiesta Bowl.


2020 Big Ten Conference football season, Delay of season
On July 9, 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, the Big Ten announced that all competition in fall sports, including football, would be played exclusively in-conference, in order to "have the greatest flexibility to adjust its own operations throughout the season and make quick decisions in real-time". An updated 10-game conference-only schedule was released on August 5, 2020.


2020 Big Ten Conference football season, Delay of season
On August 11, in the wake of multiple Group of Five conferences deciding to do so, the council of the Big Ten voted 11–3 to postpone fall athletics for the 2020–21 season (with all but Iowa, Nebraska, and Ohio State voting in favor). Commissioner Kevin Warren cited negative trends and uncertainties surrounding COVID-19 as a factor in the decision. The conference stated that it would evaluate options, including possibly playing in spring 2021 instead. After the decision to postpone the season, the Big Ten formed a taskforce to investigate options for a return to play.


2020 Big Ten Conference football season, Delay of season
President Donald Trump criticized the Big Ten's decision to postpone fall football, as part of his general criticism of U.S. colleges and universities that have not resumed on-campus activities. All other Power Five conferences besides the Pac-12 (which also postponed its season shortly after the Big Ten's decision) were still planning to play in the fall.


2020 Big Ten Conference football season, Delay of season
On September 14, it was reported that the Big Ten was considering the possibility of reversing its decision and playing a shortened conference football season as early as mid-to-late October. On September 16, the Big Ten approved an eight-game conference season that would begin October 24, and conclude on December 19 with the Big Ten Championship Game. The conference originally planned to hold a slate of cross-division matchups between seeds alongside the championship game.


2020 Big Ten Conference football season, Delay of season
The conference instituted a daily antigen testing protocol from September 30; PCR tests are used to confirm positives found via antigen testing. Players who test positive on both tests are removed from play for at least 21 days and undergo cardiac tests during this period, and will have to be cleared by a cardiologist before they can return to play. Positivity rates among participating teams and the local population will also be a factor: teams with a positivity rate above 5% or a population positivity rate above 7% will be required to halt all activity for seven days.


2020 Big Ten Conference football season, Preseason
2020 Big Ten Spring Football and number of signees on signing day:


2020 Big Ten Conference football season, Preseason, Big Ten Media Days, Preseason media polls
Below are the results of the media poll with total points received next to each school and first-place votes in parentheses. For the 2020 poll, Ohio State was voted as the favorite to win both the East Division and the Big Ten Championship Game. This is the 10th iteration of the preseason media poll conducted by Cleveland.com, which polls at least one credentialed media member for each Big Ten team. Only twice in the last ten years has the media accurately predicted the Big Ten champion.


2020 Big Ten Conference football season, Rankings
The AP and Coaches Polls ranked Big Ten teams in the preseason, but then removed those teams after the league suspended play.


2020 Big Ten Conference football season, Rankings
The Coaches Poll returned to ranking Big Ten teams with the Sept. 20 poll. The AP Poll returned Big Ten teams to the rankings with the Sept. 27 poll.


2020 Big Ten Conference football season, Schedule, Regular season schedule
The Regular season was scheduled to begin on September 3 and end on November 28. The Big Ten Championship Game was scheduled to be held on December 5, 2020.


2020 Big Ten Conference football season, Schedule, Regular season schedule
On July 9, 2020, the Big Ten Conference announced that all non-conference contests in all fall sports, including football, would be canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The league then moved to institute a 10-game, conference-only schedule in football, which would include multiple open weeks for teams in order to introduce flexibility into the schedule. On August 5, the Big Ten released the new reconfigured 10-game conference-only schedule. On August 11, 2020, the conference decided to postpone all fall sports and evaluate option to restart competition in spring 2021.


2020 Big Ten Conference football season, Schedule, Regular season schedule
On September 16, 2020, the Big Ten announced that the football season would start on the weekend of October 24. There will be an eight-game regular season taking place over eight weeks. Each team will play all the other teams in its division, plus two crossover games with teams in the other division. Then the league championship game will be played on December 19. Also on the weekend of December 19, there will be crossover divisional games featuring the 2nd place teams from each division facing off, the 3rd places teams meeting each other, etc. The new schedule was released on September 19.


2020 Big Ten Conference football season, Schedule, Regular season schedule
On December 9, the Big Ten waived its rule of requiring teams to play a minimum of six league games to be eligible for the Big Ten Championship Game, allowing Ohio State (5-0) to represent the East Division.


2020 Big Ten Conference football season, Schedule, Regular season schedule, Week #2
The Wisconsin at Nebraska game was canceled due to a COVID-19 outbreak at Wisconsin


2020 Big Ten Conference football season, Schedule, Regular season schedule, Week #3
The Purdue at Wisconsin game was canceled due to a COVID-19 outbreak at Wisconsin


2020 Big Ten Conference football season, Schedule, Regular season schedule, Week #4
The Ohio State at Maryland game was canceled due to a COVID-19 outbreak at Maryland.


2020 Big Ten Conference football season, Schedule, Regular season schedule, Week #5
Michigan State at Maryland was canceled due to COVID-19 cases at Maryland.


2020 Big Ten Conference football season, Schedule, Regular season schedule, Week #6
Ohio State at Illinois was canceled after positive COVID-19 at Ohio State.


2020 Big Ten Conference football season, Schedule, Regular season schedule, Week #6
Minnesota at Wisconsin was canceled after positive COVID-19 tests at Minnesota.


2020 Big Ten Conference football season, Schedule, Regular season schedule, Week #7
Northwestern at Minnesota was canceled after COVID issues at Minnesota.


2020 Big Ten Conference football season, Schedule, Regular season schedule, Week #7
Maryland at Michigan was canceled after COVID issues at Michigan.


2020 Big Ten Conference football season, Schedule, Regular season schedule, Week #8
Michigan at Ohio State game was canceled after COVID-19 issues at Michigan.


2020 Big Ten Conference football season, Schedule, Regular season schedule, Week #8
Purdue at Indiana was canceled by mutual agreement after increased COVID-19 issues at both schools.


2020 Big Ten Conference football season, Schedule, Regular season schedule, Week #9: Big Ten Championship Game and Champions Week games
Note: The additional games were originally planned to be cross-divisional matchups of the teams with the same standings – second place vs. second place, third place vs. third place, and so on. The schedule was changed to preserve rivalry games that were canceled during the regular season, and to avoid rematches.


2020 Big Ten Conference football season, Schedule, Regular season schedule, Week #9: Big Ten Championship Game and Champions Week games
Indiana-Purdue game canceled due to COVID-19 issues at both schools.


2020 Big Ten Conference football season, Schedule, Regular season schedule, Week #9: Big Ten Championship Game and Champions Week games
Nebraska's game with Rutgers has been adjusted from a 3:00 PM to a 6:30 PM kickoff time on Friday, December 18 after the cancellation of the Indiana-Purdue game.


2020 Big Ten Conference football season, Schedule, Regular season schedule, Week #9: Big Ten Championship Game and Champions Week games
Maryland-Michigan State game canceled due to COVID-19 issues at Maryland.


2020 Big Ten Conference football season, Schedule, Canceled regular season games
The following non-conference games were canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic:


2020 Big Ten Conference football season, Postseason, Bowl games
Games below do not include bowl games that Big Ten teams may be selected for in the College Football Playoff semifinals (the Rose Bowl and Sugar Bowl on January 1, 2021) or potential At-Large bids in New Year's Six Bowls (the Cotton Bowl on December 30, 2020, and Peach Bowl on January 1, 2021).


2020 Big Ten Conference football season, Postseason, Bowl games
Five Big Ten teams accepted bowl bids for the 2020-21 season, with Ohio State being selected for the College Football Playoff.


2020 Big Ten Conference football season, Postseason, Bowl games
Rankings are from CFP rankings. All times Eastern Time Zone. Big Ten teams shown in bold.


2020 Big Ten Conference football season, Awards and honors, All-Conference Teams
Coaches Honorable Mention: ILLINOIS: Chase Brown, Mike Epstein, Blake Hayes, Doug Kramer, Vederian Lowe, James McCourt, Roderick Perry; INDIANA: Harry Crider, Cam Jones, Whop Philyor, Reese Taylor, Haydon Whitehead; IOWA: Dane Belton, Riley Moss, Mekhi Sargent, Ihmir Smith-Marsette, Cody Ince, Kyler Schott, Sam LaPorta; MARYLAND: Chance Campbell, Nick Cross, Jaelyn Duncan, Mo Kite, Tarheeb Still; MICHIGAN: Hassan Haskins, Daxton Hill, Carlo Kemp, Kwity Paye, Brad Robbins, Andrew Stueber; MICHIGAN STATE: Drew Beesley, Matt Coghlin; MINNESOTA: Coney Durr, Boye Mafe, Tanner Morgan, John Michael Schmitz, Conner Olson, Blaise Andries, Sam Schlueter; NEBRASKA:


2020 Big Ten Conference football season, Awards and honors, All-Conference Teams
Marquel Dismuke, JoJo Domann, Matt Farniok, Will Honas, Brenden Jaimes, Wan'Dale Robinson, Ben Stille, Deontai Williams; NORTHWESTERN: Derek Adams, Chris Bergin, Earnest Brown IV, Charlie Kuhbander, Eku Leota, John Raine; OHIO STATE: Sevyn Banks, Tuf Borland, Luke Farrell, Marcus Hooker, Josh Proctor, Jeremy Ruckert, Trey Sermon, Tyreke Smith, Marcus Williamson; PENN STATE: Tariq Castro-Fields, Jahan Dotson, PJ Mustipher, Joey Porter, Antonio Shelton, Brandon Smith, Lamont Wade, Rasheed Walker; PURDUE: Jaylan Alexander, Cam Allen, J.D. Dellinger, Payne Durham, Gus Hartwig, Grant Hermanns, Spencer Holstege, Lorenzo Neal, Rondale Moore; RUTGERS: Michael Dwumfour, Christian Izien, Bo Melton, Reggie Sutton, Julius Turner, Mike Tverdov, Brendon White; WISCONSIN: Tyler Beach, Eric Burrell, Leo Chenal, Faion Hicks, Isaiahh Loudermilk, Jack Sanborn, Mason Stokke, Andy Vujnovich.


2020 Big Ten Conference football season, Awards and honors, All-Conference Teams
Media Honorable Mention: ILLINOIS: Mike Epstein, Doug Kramer, Vederian Lowe, James McCourt, Roderick Perry; INDIANA: Harry Crider, Cam Jones, Whop Philyor, Reese Taylor, Haydon Whitehead; IOWA: Dane Belton, Seth Benson, Shaun Beyer, Matt Hankins, Cody Ince, Mark Kallenberger, Sam LaPorta, Riley Moss, Nick Niemann, Spencer Petras, Mekhi Sargent, Ihmir Smith-Marsette, Kyler Schott; MARYLAND: Chance Campbell, Nick Cross, Dontay Demus, Jaelyn Duncan, Jake Funk, Rakim Jarrett, Johnny Jordan, Mo Kite, Tarheeb Still, Taulia Tagovailoa; MICHIGAN:


2020 Big Ten Conference football season, Awards and honors, All-Conference Teams
Michael Barrett, Hassan Haskins, Brad Hawkins, Daxton Hill, Brad Robbins; MICHIGAN STATE: Drew Beesley, Matt Coghlin, Jayden Reed; MINNESOTA: Coney Durr, Boye Mafe, Tanner Morgan, Sam Schlueter, John Michael Schmitz; NEBRASKA:


2020 Big Ten Conference football season, Awards and honors, All-Conference Teams
Dicaprio Bootle, Marquel Dismuke, JoJo Domann, Matt Farniok, Will Honas, Brenden Jaimes, Ben Stille, Cam Taylor-Britt, Deontai Williams; NORTHWESTERN: Derek Adams, Chris Bergin, Earnest Brown IV, Ramaud Chiaokhiao-Bowman, Charlie Kuhbander, JR Pace, John Raine; OHIO STATE: Sevyn Banks, Tuf Borland, Baron Browning, Drue Chrisman, Zach Harrison, Haskell Garrett, Marcus Hooker, Harry Miller, Nicholas Petit-Frere, Trey Sermon, Tyreke Smith; PENN STATE: Jaquan Brisker, Tariq Castro-Fields, Jahan Dotson, Will Fries, PJ Mustipher, Antonio Shelton, Brandon Smith; PURDUE: Cam Allen, J.D. Dellinger, Gus Hartwig, Grant Hermanns, Spencer Holstege, George Karlaftis, Greg Long, Lorenzo Neal, Rondale Moore, Brennan Thieneman; RUTGERS: Michael Dwumfour, Tyshon Fogg, Christian Izien, Bo Melton, Raiqwon O'Neail, Julius Turner, Mike Tverdov, Avery Young; WISCONSIN: Eric Burrell, Leo Chenal, Faion Hicks, Caesar Williams.


2020 Big Ten Conference football season, Awards and honors, All-Americans
The 2020 College Football All-America Team is composed of the following College Football All-American first teams chosen by the following selector organizations: Associated Press (AP), Football Writers Association of America (FWAA), American Football Coaches Association (AFCA), Walter Camp Foundation (WCFF), The Sporting News (TSN), Sports Illustrated (SI), USA Today (USAT) ESPN, CBS Sports (CBS), FOX Sports (FOX) College Football News (CFN), Bleacher Report (BR), Scout.com, Phil Steele (PS), SB Nation (SB), Athlon Sports, Pro Football Focus (PFF), The Athletic, and Yahoo! Sports (Yahoo! ).


2020 Big Ten Conference football season, Awards and honors, All-Americans
Currently, the NCAA compiles consensus all-America teams in the sports of Division I-FBS football and Division I men's basketball using a point system computed from All-America teams named by coaches associations or media sources. The system consists of three points for a first-team honor, two points for second-team honor, and one point for third-team honor. Honorable mention and fourth team or lower recognitions are not accorded any points. Football consensus teams are compiled by position and the player accumulating the most points at each position is named first team consensus all-American. Currently, the NCAA recognizes All-Americans selected by the AP, AFCA, FWAA, TSN, and the WCFF to determine Consensus and Unanimous All-Americans. Any player named to the First Team by all five of the NCAA-recognized selectors is deemed a Unanimous All-American.


2020 Big Ten Conference football season, Home attendance
Due to COVID-19, the Big Ten is not allowing fans into stadiums for the 2020 season. Family members and limited staff are permitted. Some schools count and track those numbers and some do not.


2020 Big Ten Conference football season, 2021 NFL Draft
The Big Ten had 44 players selected in the 2021 NFL Draft, the second-most of any conference, trailing only the SEC who had 65.


2020 Big Ten Conference football season, Head coaches
* Tom Allen was hired to replace Kevin Wilson in December 2016 at Indiana and coached the Hoosiers in their 2016 bowl game, going 0–1.


2020 Big Ten Conference football season, Head coaches
* Mike Locksley served as interim head coach at Maryland in 2015 and coached for six games, going 1–5.


2020 Big Ten Conference football season, Head coaches
* Ryan Day served as interim head coach at Ohio State for the first three games of the 2018 season while Urban Meyer served a three-game suspension and went 3–0.


2020 Big Ten Conference football season, Head coaches
* Greg Schiano served as head coach at Rutgers from 2001 through 2011 then left for the NFL. Following the conclusion of the 2019 season, Schiano returned to Rutgers for his second stint as head coach. The Scarlet Knights competed in the Big East Conference in his previous stay at the school.


2020 Big Ten Conference football season, Head coaches
* Lovie Smith was relieved of his coaching duties at Illinois on December 13. Offensive coordinator Rod Smith was named interim coach for the final game of the 2020 season.


2020 Big Ten Conference men's soccer season
The 2020 Big Ten Conference men's soccer season is the 30th season of men's varsity soccer in the conference. The season was originally scheduled to begin on August 28 and conclude on November 8, 2020. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the season was postponed to start February 3, 2021 and conclude on April 17, 2021.


2020 Big Ten Conference men's soccer season
The season will culminate with the 2020 Big Ten Conference Men's Soccer Tournament to determine the conference's automatic berth into the 2020 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Tournament.


2020 Big Ten Conference men's soccer season
Indiana enters the season as the two-time defending regular season and tournament champions.


2020 Big Ten Conference men's soccer season, Background, Previous season
The previous season was the 29th season of men's varsity soccer in the conference. The 2019 Big Ten regular season began on August 30, 2019 concluded on November 3, 2019. The season culminated with the 2019 Big Ten Conference Men's Soccer Tournament to determine the conference's automatic berth into the 2019 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Tournament. Indiana went on to win both the regular season and the tournament, winning seven of their eight of their Big Ten Conference games. They defeated Penn State in the Big Ten Men's Soccer Championship Game.


2020 Big Ten Conference men's soccer season, Background, Previous season
With the Big Ten title, Indiana earned the conference's automatic berth into the 2019 NCAA Tournament, where Maryland, Michigan, and Penn State joined as at-large berths. Maryland and Penn State were eliminated in the Second Round, while Michigan and Indiana were eliminated in the Third Round.


2020 Big Ten Conference men's soccer season, Background, Previous season
In the 2020 MLS SuperDraft, Jack Maher was selected second-overall in the draft, being selected by expansion team, Nashville SC. Nine total Big Ten players were selected in the draft; tied for the second most of all conferences.


2020 Big Ten Conference men's soccer season, Background, Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic
Like most Big Ten sports, men's soccer played a conference-only schedule for the 2020–21 academic year. Additionally, like many fall sports, the season was postponed to the spring.


2020 Big Ten Conference men's soccer season, Preseason, Preseason poll
The preseason poll was released on February 18, 2021. Indiana was selected unanimously as the favorite to win the Big Ten.


2020 Big Ten Conference men's soccer season, Preseason, Preseason national polls
The preseason national polls were released in January and February 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.


2020 Big Ten Conference men's soccer season, Regular season, Conference results
Each team plays every four other conference team twice; once home and once away, and then four other conference teams once.


2020 Big Ten Conference men's soccer season, Postseason, NCAA Tournament
The NCAA Tournament will begin in April 2021 and conclude on May 17, 2021.


2020 Big Ten Conference softball season
The 2020 Big Ten softball season began with practices in January 2020, followed by the start of the 2020 NCAA Division I softball season in February. Conference will start in March 2020 and will conclude in May, followed by the 2020 Big Ten Conference Softball Tournament at Eichelberger Field in Champaign, Illinois, in May.


2020 Big Ten Conference softball season, Coronavirus impact and cancellation
As of March 12, 2020, the NCAA cancelled both the remainder of the season and the tournament due to the coronavirus pandemic.


2020 Big Ten Conference softball season, Head coaches, Coaching changes prior to the season, Maryland
On August 7, 2019, Maryland head coach Julie Wright stepped down as head coach. On September 9, 2019, the school hired former Louisiana Tech head coach Mark Montgomery as the next head coach.


2020 Big Ten Conference softball season, Head coaches, Coaches
Note: Stats shown are before the beginning of the season. Overall and Big Ten records are from time at current school.


2020 Big Ten Football Championship Game
The 2020 Big Ten Football Championship Game was a college football game played on December 19, 2020 at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, Indiana. The tenth annual Big Ten Football Championship Game, it determined the 2020 champion of the Big Ten Conference. The game was played between the No. 4 Ohio State Buckeyes out of the East division, and the No. 14 Northwestern Wildcats out of the West division. Sponsored by credit card company Discover, the game was officially known as the Big Ten Championship Game presented by Discover.


2020 Big Ten Football Championship Game, History
The 2020 Championship Game was the tenth in the Big Ten's 125-year history and the seventh to feature the conference's East and West alignment. East division champion Ohio State won the 2019 game over West division champion Wisconsin by a score of 34–21.


2020 Big Ten Football Championship Game, Teams
Ohio State and Northwestern faced each other in the Big Ten Championship Game for the second time. Ohio State won the first championship game between the two schools, in 2018.


2020 Big Ten Football Championship Game, Teams, Northwestern
Northwestern booked their place in the Championship Game by winning the West Division with a record of 6–1 (6–1 Big Ten). The Wildcats are making their second appearance in the Championship Game, with the only previous appearance coming in 2018 against Ohio State. The Wildcats are ranked 14th in the College Football Playoff rankings heading into the game.


2020 Big Ten Football Championship Game, Teams, Ohio State
Ohio State secured their place in the Championship Game by winning the East Division with an undefeated 5–0 (5–0 Big Ten) regular season record. This will be Ohio State's sixth appearance in the Championship Game, and fourth consecutive. They are the three-time reigning conference champions. The Buckeyes are ranked fourth in the College Football Playoff rankings heading into the game.


2020 Big Ten Football Championship Game, Teams, Ohio State
Originally, Ohio State would not have qualified to play in the championship game due to the Big Ten's six-game minimum rule that was adopted in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, but that rule was eliminated shortly after Ohio State's final game, against Michigan, was canceled. This allowed the Buckeyes to advance to the Championship game at 5–0 over Big Ten East runners-up Indiana, who finished 6–1.


2020 Big Ten Men's Basketball Tournament
The 2020 Big Ten Conference Men's Basketball Tournament was the postseason men's basketball tournament for the Big Ten Conference of the 2019–20 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The tournament remained in its more traditional Midwest roots as it was held at the Bankers Life Fieldhouse in Indianapolis, Indiana.


2020 Big Ten Men's Basketball Tournament
The first games on March 11 were played with spectators in attendance. Later on March 11, the Big Ten conference announced that the remainder of the Big Ten tournament would proceed as scheduled but with no spectators in attendance. Indiana University was highest seeded team (11) to win a game and move on to 2nd round prior to its cancellation. Minnesota won as a 12 seed.


2020 Big Ten Men's Basketball Tournament
Also on March 11, the NCAA announced that no fans would be able to attend the men's and women's 2020 NCAA tournament games due to concerns about the outbreak of COVID-19. A number of college conferences followed suit by either cancelling their basketball tournaments entirely or limiting spectator attendance.


2020 Big Ten Men's Basketball Tournament
On March 12, the Big Ten announced the cancellation of the remainder of the tournament. The NCAA further announced that all remaining winter and spring championships for both men's and women's sports were canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic.


2020 Big Ten Men's Basketball Tournament, Seeds
All 14 Big Ten schools were scheduled to participate in the tournament. Teams were seeded by conference record, with a tiebreaker system used to seed teams with identical conference records. The top 10 teams received a first round bye and the top four teams received a double bye. Tiebreaking procedures remained unchanged from the 2019 tournament.


2020 Big Ten Men's Ice Hockey Tournament
The 2020 Big Ten Conference Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was the seventh tournament in conference history. It was scheduled to be played between March 6 and March 21, 2020, on-campus locations. On March 12, 2020, the Big Ten announced that the tournament was canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic.


2020 Big Ten Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Format
The tournament featured a format with all games taking place on the campus of the higher-seeded teams. The tournament opened with three best-of-three quarterfinal series, as the second, third and fourth-seeded teams each hosting a series. The top-seeded team had a bye to the single-elimination semifinals. The highest-seeded team remaining after the semifinals was intended to host the championship game.


2020 Big Ten Men's Soccer Tournament
The 2020 Big Ten Conference Men's Soccer Tournament was the 30th edition of the tournament. As the tournament champion, Indiana earned the Big Ten Conference's automatic berth into the 2020 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Tournament.


2020 Big Ten Men's Soccer Tournament
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the tournament was rescheduled from November 2020 to April 2021, and reduced from nine teams to eight teams.


2020 Big Ten Men's Soccer Tournament, Seeding
Seeding was determined by regular season conference record points per game.


2020 Big Ten Women's Basketball Tournament
The 2020 Big Ten Conference Women's Basketball Tournament was a postseason tournament scheduled for March 4–8, 2020 at Bankers Life Fieldhouse in Indianapolis.


2020 Big Ten Women's Basketball Tournament, Seeds
All 14 Big Ten schools are participating in the tournament. Teams will be seeded by 2019–20 Big Ten Conference season record. The top 10 teams receive a first-round bye and the top 4 teams receive a double bye.


2020 Big Ten Women's Basketball Tournament, Seeds
Seeding for the tournament will be determined at the close of the regular conference season:


2020 Big Ten Women's Basketball Tournament, Seeds
## – Received a double bye in the conference tournament.


2020 Big Ten Women's Basketball Tournament, Seeds
# – Received a first-round bye in the conference tournament.


2020 Big Ten Women's Basketball Tournament, Seeds
Overall record are as of the end of the regular season.


2020 Big Ten Women's Soccer Tournament
The 2020 Big Ten Women's Soccer Tournament was the postseason women's soccer tournament for the Big Ten Conference for the 2020 season. It was held from April 8 to April 18. As the tournament winner, Iowa earned the conference's automatic bid to the 2020 NCAA Division I Women's Soccer Tournament.


2020 Big Ten Women's Soccer Tournament, Effects of the Covid-19 pandemic
The Big Ten tournament was originally set to be played in November 2020. However, the Big Ten postponed fall sports with the hope of playing them in the spring.


2020 Big Ten Women's Soccer Tournament, Format
The tournament consist of all 14 teams in the conference, instead of 8 as in previous years.


2020 Big Ten Women's Soccer Tournament, Format
Rather than a straightforward 14-team tournament, there will be four "mini-tournaments" based on region and seeding. Two of the regionals will have four teams, and the other two, consisting of the two division winners, will have three. The four regional winners will advance to the main tournament, consisting of a semi-final round and the final, with each game hosted by the higher seed.


2020 Big West Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
The 2020 Big West Conference Men's Basketball Tournament was to be the postseason men's basketball tournament for the Big West Conference of the 2019–20 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. It was scheduled be held from March 12 through March 14, 2020 at the Honda Center in Anaheim, California. It was cancelled on March 12 in the effort to contain the spread of the coronavirus.


2020 Big West Conference Men's Basketball Tournament, Seeds
The top eight conference teams were eligible for the tournament. Teams were seeded by record within the conference, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records. Teams were to be reseeded after the quarterfinals.


2020 Big West Conference Men's Basketball Tournament, Attendance
On March 10, due to concerns over the coronavirus pandemic, the Big West Conference announced that both the Men's and Women's Tournaments would be played without paid spectators.


2020 Big West Conference Women's Basketball Tournament
The 2020 Big West Conference Women's Basketball Tournament was the postseason women's basketball tournament that was scheduled to take place from March 10–14, 2020, at two venues in the Los Angeles area. The first two rounds were scheduled for the Walter Pyramid in Long Beach, California, while the semifinals and championship were to be held at the Honda Center in Anaheim. The winner of the Big West Tournament would have received the conference's automatic bid to the 2020 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament. On March 10 it was announced the tournament will be played without spectators, in an effort to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. On March 12, the NCAA announced that the tournament was cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic.


2020 Bihar Legislative Assembly election
The Bihar Legislative Assembly election was held in three phases through October–November to elect members to the Seventeenth Bihar Legislative Assembly. The term of the previous Sixteenth Legislative Assembly of Bihar ended on 29 November 2020.


2020 Bihar Legislative Assembly election
The election was held in three phases for a total of 243 seats:- the first for 71 seats on 28 October 2020, the second for 94 seats on 3 November 2020, and the third for the remaining 78 seats on 7 November 2020. The counting of votes began on 10 November 2020 and the incumbent National Democratic Alliance emerged as the winner with 125 elected MLAs, whereas the principal opposition coalition of Mahagathbandhan won 110 seats. Other minor coalitions and parties won 7 seats while only 1 newly elected MLA was an independent.


2020 Bihar Legislative Assembly election
After the elections, the incumbent Chief Minister Nitish Kumar was elected as the leader of the National Democratic Alliance in Bihar and was sworn in again as Chief Minister, whereas two new deputy Chief Ministers, Tarkishore Prasad and Renu Devi were inducted to the new ministry. On the other side, Tejashwi Yadav was elected Leader of the Opposition, and also leader of the Mahagathbandhan alliance. Later Vijay Kumar Sinha was elected the new Speaker of the Bihar Legislative Assembly.


2020 Bihar Legislative Assembly election, Background
Outlined in Article 168 of the Constitution of India, the Bihar Legislative Assembly is the lower house of the bicameral legislature of Bihar and not a permanent body and subject to dissolution. The tenure of the Legislative Assembly is five years from the date appointed for its first sitting unless dissolved sooner. Members of the Legislative Assembly are directly elected by the people. The tenure of current Bihar Legislative Assembly is scheduled to end on 29 November 2020.


2020 Bihar Legislative Assembly election, Background
In the previous election, an alliance of three major parties consisting of Janata Dal (United), Rashtriya Janata Dal and Indian National Congress named as Mahagathbandhan won against its primary opposition, the Bharatiya Janata Party led National Democratic Alliance. However, in 2017, the Janata Dal (United) Chief Minister Nitish Kumar left the Mahagathbandhan and joined the National Democratic Alliance. While Nitish Kumar remained the Chief Minister, Sushil Kumar Modi of the Bharatiya Janata Party replaced Tejashwi Yadav as the Deputy Chief Minister.


2020 Bihar Legislative Assembly election, Background, Issues
The main issue was that of the jobs and the economy. Bihar, for a long time, has been an economically backward state and sends large numbers of migrant laborers to cities across the country. Due to the coronavirus pandemic lockdown, thousands of migrant laborers were forced to return to their home states due to lack of work, and Bihar was one of the most affected by the ensuing humanitarian crisis. Many of these workers blamed the current government for not having jobs for them in the first place, and not providing jobs when the lockdown started. There was also a significant anti-incumbency wave against Nitish, who had been CM for 15 years.


2020 Bihar Legislative Assembly election, Background, Issues
The three agriculture bills passed by the Indian Parliament amid nationwide protests was expected to play a key role in the elections.


2020 Bihar Legislative Assembly election, Background, Issues
Issues such as the lack of employment, alleged politicisation of flood relief in the aftermath of the 2019 Bihar floods and alleged inability of the state government to handle the COVID-19 pandemic were expected to be made an election issue by the opposition parties. The limited digital connectivity in Bihar and the migrant crisis were among the issues which may have had an impact on campaigning and poll outcomes.


2020 Bihar Legislative Assembly election, Background, Issues
The death of the former Lok Janshakti Party president and union cabinet minister, Ram Vilas Paswan on 8 October 2020 was also speculated to have an effect on the prospects of the competing parties. It was reported that the BJP accorded special focus on the politically significant Mithila region which comprises 22 of the 38 districts of the state including Darbhanga, Madhubani, Supaul, Araria, Purnia, Katihar and Samastipur.


2020 Bihar Legislative Assembly election, Schedule
On 25 September,  Election Commission of India announced the dates for Bihar Assembly elections.


2020 Bihar Legislative Assembly election, Parties and Alliances, National Democratic Alliance
The National Democratic Alliance in Bihar is the ruling political group headed by the chief minister Nitish Kumar and comprising primarily the Janata Dal (United) and the Bharatiya Janata Party in the legislative assembly.


2020 Bihar Legislative Assembly election, Parties and Alliances, National Democratic Alliance
In the previous election, the alliance was led by the Bharatiya Janata Party alongside three smaller allies namely the Lok Janshakti Party, the Rashtriya Lok Samta Party and the Hindustani Awam Morcha, while the Janata Dal (United) had contested as part of the current opposition Mahagathbandan. In 2017, the Janata Dal (United) switched alliance which caused the Mahagathbandan government to fall and the National Democratic Alliance came to power. In 2018, two of the partners, the Rashtriya Lok Samata Party and the Hindustani Awam Morcha left the alliance.


2020 Bihar Legislative Assembly election, Parties and Alliances, National Democratic Alliance
During the campaigning phase in August 2020, the alliance was re-joined by the Hindustani Awam Morcha which held one seat in the legislature. Later, the alliance was also joined in by the Vikassheel Insaan Party in October 2020. The campaign however faced problems with persistent attacks on the Janata Dal (United) by the Lok Janshakti Party.


2020 Bihar Legislative Assembly election, Parties and Alliances, National Democratic Alliance
Chirag Paswan, the leader of the party in the state was called to Delhi to negotiate with the national leadership of the Bharatiya Janata Party, in the end the Lok Janshakti Party quit the alliance stating that they would contest all seats against the Janata Dal (United) but not against the Bharatiya Janata Party. Following the development, several notable leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party including the state vice president and 2 sitting legislators joined the Lok Janshakti Party to contest against Janata Dal (United) candidates. Later during the campaigning period in October 2020, the Bharatiya Janata Party officially cut ties with the Lok Janshakti Party stating that the National Democratic Alliances in Bihar consisted of the four parties.


2020 Bihar Legislative Assembly election, Parties and Alliances, National Democratic Alliance
According to political analysts the Lok Janshakti Party was unlikely to make any electoral gains but would act as spoilers for the Janata Dal (United) candidates, the development was suggested to have been orchestrated by the Bharatiya Janata Party to gain leverage over the Janata Dal (United) by reducing its final tally. The Bharatiya Janata Party at the time re-asserted that Nitish Kumar would remain the chief ministerial face of the alliance.


2020 Bihar Legislative Assembly election, Parties and Alliances, National Democratic Alliance
Both the Lok Janshakti Party and the Janata Dal (United) are expected to hold sway among certain sections of Scheduled caste voters while the Bharatiya Janta Party are expected to draws its support base from Forward caste voters.


2020 Bihar Legislative Assembly election, Parties and Alliances, National Democratic Alliance
The Janata Dal (United) though relied upon its core voters by giving importance to its Luv-Kush equation in ticket distribution, also gave good representation to the forward castes and EBCs. For 115 seats which it contested 17 forward caste were given party tickets while the Koeri and Kurmi candidates got 17 and 7 seats respectively. The EBCs on the other hand contested on 21 seats out of 115.


2020 Bihar Legislative Assembly election, Parties and Alliances, Mahagathbandhan
The Mahagathbandhan is the main opposition political coalition comprising primarily the United Progressive Alliance members Rashtriya Janata Dal and Indian National Congress along with left–wing parties such as CPI and CPI (M).


2020 Bihar Legislative Assembly election, Parties and Alliances, Mahagathbandhan
In the previous election, the Mahagathbandhan formed and initially comprised the Rashtriya Janata Dal, the Janata Dal (United) and the Indian National Congress. It was able to form government following the election but the government fell when the Janata Dal (United) switched sides and joined the National Democratic Alliance. In the opposition, the alliance was joined in by smaller parties like the Rashtriya Lok Samta Party, the Hindustan Awami Morcha and the Vikassheel Insaan Party. The three parties however opted out of the alliance between August–October 2020. In September 2020, the Samajwadi Party which had contested in previous elections in Bihar without success, declared that they would not contest this time and instead support the Rashtriya Janata Dal.


2020 Bihar Legislative Assembly election, Parties and Alliances, Mahagathbandhan
In the meantime, the alliance after negotiations were joined in by the left–wing parties in Bihar; namely the Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Liberation, the Communist Party of India and the Communist Party of India (Marxist). The new arrangement was described as an experiment beyond the caste based politics in Bihar with a caste plus class strategy. The communist parties in Bihar had historically held a large presence in the state that was reduced following the Mandal Commission, the Liberation group had retained some of its former base and had emerged as the largest non alliance party in the previous election.


2020 Bihar Legislative Assembly election, Parties and Alliances, Mahagathbandhan
The seat sharing agreement was finalised on 3 October 2020 with the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha included in the alliance. On 7 October, the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha opted out of the alliance in Bihar over disagreements on seat sharing while maintaining that they will continue to uphold their alliance in the state of Jharkhand.


2020 Bihar Legislative Assembly election, Parties and Alliances, Grand Democratic Secular Front
In the wake of the 2020 Bihar Legislative Assembly election, Upendra Kushwaha pulled the party out of the Rashtriya Janata Dal led Mahagathbandhan (Grand Alliance),. The party entered into an alliance with the Uttar Pradesh based Bahujan Samaj Party and the minor Janvadi Party (Socialist); The UDSA consisted of the Samajwadi Janata Dal Democratic led by the veteran socialist Devendra Prasad Yadav and the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen.


2020 Bihar Legislative Assembly election, Parties and Alliances, Grand Democratic Secular Front
On 8 October 2020, the UDSA and the three party front including the Bahujan Samaj Party were merged into a single coalition called the Grand Democratic Secular Front (GDSF), the alliance additionally included the Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party. Among the constituent parties, only the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen had representation in the assembly through a single legislator.


2020 Bihar Legislative Assembly election, Parties and Alliances, Others
There are a number of other smaller parties and coalitions contesting the election, the prospects and impact of these formations have been noted to be marginal. As of January 2020, there were 120 unrecognised registered parties in Bihar.


2020 Bihar Legislative Assembly election, Parties and Alliances, Others
On 2 October 2020, there were reportedly four other noteworthy alliances that had emerged; Progressive Democratic Alliance (PDA), United Democratic Alliance (UDA). PDA consisted of Pappu Yadav's Jan Adhikar Party, Chandrashekhar Azad's Azad Samaj Party, Social Democratic Party of India and Bahujan Mukti Party. The UDA consisted of a front of 20 parties collectively led by the former Bharatiya Janata Party cabinet minister Yashwant Sinha and other transiently popular mass leaders. The newly formed Plurals Party is also contesting the election in 2020 on all 243 seats.


2020 Bihar Legislative Assembly election, Parties and Alliances, Others
In the meantime, the UDA which was the front led by Yashwant Sinha had reportedly fallen apart as various members of the constituent parties had defected to join the mainstream regional and national parties. Other notable parties that are contesting independent of an alliance, are the Lok Janshakti Party on 134 seats, the Loktantrik Janata Dal on 51 seats, the Shiv Sena on 30–40 seats and the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha on 7 seats.


2020 Bihar Legislative Assembly election, Election
The Chief Election Commissioner of India, Sunil Arora, announced on 25 September 2020 that the Bihar assembly election will be held from 28 October 2020, in three phases for 243 constituencies. Per the Election Commission of India, approximately 60 registered parties contest are to in the Bihar elections.


2020 Bihar Legislative Assembly election, Election
The elections were conducted amid the COVID-19 pandemic with the necessary guidelines issued by the Election Commission of India. The election will consist of both, virtual and physical campaigns. The authorities also passed the guidelines over limited people to be involved in the rallies. Due to COVID-19, the polling time will be increased by one hour and will now be from 7am to 6pm, except in Naxalite–Maoist insurgency affected areas. As per guidelines, maximum number of voters per polling station was reduced from 1,500 to 1,000. Arrangements were made for 7 lakh units of hand sanitisers, 46 lakh masks, 6 lakh PPE kits, 6.7 lakh face shields, and 23 lakh single use gloves.


2020 Bihar Legislative Assembly election, Election, Voting
The overall voter turnout in this election has been 57.05%, which is 0.39% more than the 56.66% in 2015 assembly polls. In these elections, 59.58% of females voted compared to a 54.68% voter turnout of males.


2020 Bihar Legislative Assembly election, Election, Voting, Phase 1
A total of 1,066 candidates, including 952 male and 114 female, contested in the first phase of elections from different constituencies. The maximum number of candidates contesting from one constituency in the first phase was being at Gaya Town with 27 candidates and the minimum at Katoria with 5 candidates in Banka district. In the constituencies voting in the first phase of elections, approximately 2.15 crore registered electors were eligible to exercise their vote, out of which around 1.12 crore were male, 1.01 crore were female and 599 were categorised as the third gender.


2020 Bihar Legislative Assembly election, Election, Voting, Phase 1
The first phase of elections recorded a voter turnout of 55.68%. The male and female voter turnout for the first phase was 56.8% and 54.4% respectively. In the previous assembly election in 2015, the voter turnout was 54.94% for these constituencies.


2020 Bihar Legislative Assembly election, Election, Voting, Phase 2
In the second phase of elections, 1463 candidates contested the elections, of which 1315 candidates were male, 147 candidates were female and 1 candidate belonged to the transgender community.


2020 Bihar Legislative Assembly election, Election, Voting, Phase 2
The elections was held on 3 November. Voter turnout for the 2nd phase was over 55.7%.


2020 Bihar Legislative Assembly election, Election, Voting, Phase 3
In the third phase of elections,  1094 male candidates and 110 female candidates contested the elections for 78 Seats, out of a total of 23.5 Million eligible voters for this phase total of 12.3 Million were Male and 11.2 Million were female voters.


2020 Bihar Legislative Assembly election, Election, Voting, Phase 3
The elections were held on 7 November 2020 and the total Voting turnout was recorded 59.94%, which was highest among all three phases.


2020 Bihar Legislative Assembly election, Election, Incidents
On 27 October 2020 a day before the first phase of the election, three improvised explosive devices (IEDs) were recovered and diffused from two different places in Imamganj area of Gaya district.


2020 Bihar Legislative Assembly election, Election, Incidents
On 28 October, During Phase 1 of the election for 71 constituencies, two Improvised explosive devices (cane bombs) were recovered from the Maoist-infested Dhibra area in Aurangabad district. The bombs were diffused by the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) and an alert was sounded in all Maoist-affected areas.


2020 Bihar Legislative Assembly election, Results, Summary
NDA secured a total of 125 seats (37.26% votes) while MGB won 110 seats (37.23% votes). GDSF got 6 seats, LJP & others won a seat each. The results surprised many analysts and polling agencies that predicted MGB to win. Only agency to correctly predict the Bihar election results was Politique Marquer that had predicted a narrow majority for NDA. Rashtriya Janata Dal won in 75 constituencies and became the largest political party in the Legislative Assembly, however its numbers reduced compared to previous election.


2020 Bihar Legislative Assembly election, Results, Summary
The Bharatiya Janata Party won 74 seats and was the biggest gainer in terms of number of MLAs elected as it added more than 30% to its seat count compared to the last election. The Janata Dal (United) and Indian National Congress won in 43 and 19 constituencies respectively and dropped the most seats compared to the previous election. The All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) also made inroads in the state winning 5 seats. All the 5 MLAs of AIMIM were elected from constituencies in the Muslim dominated Seemanchal region of the State.


2020 Bihar Legislative Assembly election, Results, Summary
The Communist parties also gained in these elections. The Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) (Liberation) won 12 seats, whereas the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and Communist Party of India won 2 seats each. The Vikassheel Insaan Party which contested the Assembly elections for the first time won 4 seats. Sumit Kumar Singh was the only Independent candidate to win as a MLA.


2020 Bihar Legislative Assembly election, Results, Summary
The constituencies with higher female turnout than male, the NDA was in lead. Out of the 125 seats that NDA won, 99 were constituencies where female turnout was more than their male counterparts. About 20% of the seats, the margin of victory was less than 2.5% of the votes polled. The NDA won 21 seats with a less than 2.5% vote margin, while the Mahagathbandhan won in 22 such seats.


2020 Bihar Legislative Assembly election, Results, Results by District Wise
In districts adjoining Uttar Pradesh, the BJP performed better than the Mahagathbandhan, however JDU's seats declined. The NDA won in majority of the constituencies in the Champaran region.


2020 Bihar Legislative Assembly election, Results, Results by Constituency
NDA distribution of 125 seats for a majority in 2020 Bihar Legislative Assembly election.


2020 Bihar Legislative Assembly election, Aftermath, Government formation
After the election process concluded, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar tendered his resignation to the Governor on 13 November 2020. The National Democratic Alliance members met at around 12:30 pm IST, on 15 November to formally announce and elect the new Chief Minister. Nitish Kumar was elected leader of the NDA and Chief Minister in the meeting. After being elected as the NDA leader in Bihar, Nitish said that he did not want to become the chief minister of the state and wanted someone from the BJP party to become the next chief minister. However he accepted the designation on the insistence of the BJP. Soon after, Nitish visited the Governor to stake claim to form the new government.


2020 Bihar Legislative Assembly election, Aftermath, Reactions and analysis
After the election results were announced, the incumbent Chief Minister of Bihar Nitish Kumar thanked the Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi for his contribution and support to the National Democratic Alliance in the election campaign. Narendra Modi himself declared victory and quoted “Democracy has once again won in Bihar.”


2020 Bihar Legislative Assembly election, Aftermath, Reactions and analysis
Following the results, Tejashwi claimed to have "won 130 seats" and that "the mandate was in our favour, but the Election Commission’s results were declared in favour of NDA". He claimed, that the MGB "lost about 20 seats" because of "irregularities" in counting of postal ballots and threatened to move to court. The Election Commission termed the claims unfounded, adding that, according to procedure, the postal ballots including the invalid ones were re-verified where the margin of victory was less than the number of rejected ballots. Tejashwi also claimed that NDA won by "money, muscle power and deceit". Later the Election Commission declared that it had counted random voter-verified paper audit trail which matched the EVM count.


2020 Bihar Legislative Assembly election, Aftermath, Reactions and analysis
The Time magazine called the victory as a triumph for Modi's "Hindu Nationalist Message". According to analysts BJP has become more significant in the state than before. The 14th Dalai Lama congratulated Nitish on his election victory.


2020 Billboard Latin Music Awards
The 27th Billboard Latin Music Awards ceremony, presented by Billboard magazine, honored the best performing Latin recordings, charting from February 2, 2019 to January 25, 2020. The ceremony was held on October 21, 2020 at the BB&T Center in Sunrise, in the periphery of Miami. The ceremony was televised in the United States by Telemundo for the 22nd time. The Billboard Latin Music Awards closed out LatinFest+, presented by Billboard and Telemundo, a three-day immersive experience dedicated to Latin music, culture and entertainment.


2020 Billboard Latin Music Awards
Celebrating its 30th anniversary, the formerly known as Billboard Latin Music Week, included virtual superstar conversations and workshops with, among others, Ozuna, Rosalía, Maluma, Black Eyed Peas, Carlos Vives and Los Tigres del Norte between October 20 and 23. The awards recognize the most popular Latin performers, songs, albums, labels, songwriters and producers in the United States. Recipients are based on sales, radio airplay, online streaming and social data during a one-year period.


2020 Billboard Latin Music Awards, Background
Despite many producers being in talks to hold the gala at the Fibes Auditorium in Seville in May following the success of the MTV Europe Music Awards and the excitement of many artists to play there, on February 5, 2020, Billboard announced the nominations for the award ceremony and revealed that it would take place on April 23 at Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas while LatinFest + was scheduled to be held at The Venetian featuring speeches, debates and live performances. On March 17, Billboard agreed to postpone the gala following the Nevada Governor's recommendations to limit the size of public gatherings for the prevention and containment of COVID-19 in the United States.


2020 Billboard Latin Music Awards, Background
On August 24, Billboard announced that the Latin Music Awards would be taking place in Miami on October 21. Nominations were not changed.


2020 Billboard Latin Music Awards, Nominees
The nominees for the 27th Billboard Latin Music Awards were announced on February 5, 2020. Ozuna and Bad Bunny led the nominations with 14 each. Daddy Yankee and J Balvin both received 12 nominations; Anuel AA received 11; and Farruko 10.


2020 Billboard Music Awards
The 2020 Billboard Music Awards were held on Wednesday October 14, 2020 at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, California. The ceremony was broadcast live from NBC. Hosted by Kelly Clarkson for the third year in a row, the ceremony was sponsored by TikTok and Xfinity. The ceremony was originally scheduled for April 29, 2020, but was later postponed first indefinitely and then to October due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Nominees were announced on September 22, 2020. Voting opened on TikTok on October 1 and closed on October 13. Presenters were announced October 13.


2020 Billboard Music Awards
Post Malone was the most awarded, with nine awards. Malone was also the most nominated, with 16 nominations. Garth Brooks and Killer Mike received the Icon Award and the inaugural Change Maker Award, respectively.


2020 Billboard Music Awards, Background
The 2020 ceremony was originally scheduled to be held April 29, 2020 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. Kelly Clarkson was announced as the host. She had previously hosted the 2018 and 2019 ceremonies. On March 17th, NBC and Dick Clark Productions issued a joint statement postponing the ceremony due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In the statement, they stated "[in] accordance with the current guidelines set forth by national and local health officials and in order to ensure the health and safety of our artists, fans, guests and staff, [w]e are postponing the Billboard Music Awards."


2020 Billboard Music Awards, Background
On August 14 of the same year, the show was rescheduled for October 14. On September 22, the nominees for all categories were announced. The first round of performers were announced September 29. Garth Brooks received the Icon Award, as announced on February 26, 2020; succeeding Mariah Carey, who won the award in 2019. Killer Mike received the inaugural Change Maker Award, as announced two days before the ceremony. Voting for fan-voted categories opened on dance video platform TikTok on October 1. TikTok and Xfinity sponsored the ceremony.


2020 Billboard Music Awards, Winners and nominees
Nominees were announced in a series of Twitter statements on September 22, 2020. Post Malone was the most nominated, with 16 nominations, followed by Lil Nas X with 13, and Khalid and Billie Eilish with 12. Voting for the three fan-voted categories, Billboard Chart Achievement, Top Social Artist and Best Collaboration opened on dance-sharing video app TikTok on October 1, 2020, and closed on October 13.


2020 Billboard Music Awards, Presenters
Presenters were announced October 13 in a series of Twitter statements.


2020 Billie Jean King Cup Americas Zone Group I – Play-offs
The play-offs of the 2020 Billie Jean King Cup Americas Zone Group I were the final stages of the Group I zonal competition involving teams from the Americas. Using the positions determined in their pools, the seven teams faced off to determine their placing in the 2020 Billie Jean King Cup Americas Zone Group I. The top two teams advanced to the 2020 Billie Jean King Cup Play-offs, while the bottom two teams were relegated to Americas Zone Group II for 2022.


2020 Billie Jean King Cup Americas Zone Group I – Play-offs, Promotional play-offs
The first-placed teams of each pool played against one another in a head-to-head round. The winners of each round advanced to the 2020 Billie Jean King Cup Play-offs.


2020 Billie Jean King Cup Americas Zone Group I – Play-offs, Relegation play-offs
The third-placed teams of each pool played against one another in a head-to-head round. The loser of the tie was relegated to Americas Zone Group II in 2022, alongside Peru who finished fourth in Pool B.


2020 Billie Jean King Cup Americas Zone Group I – Pool A
Pool A of the 2020 Billie Jean King Cup Americas Zone Group I was one of two pools in the Americas zone of the 2020–21 Billie Jean King Cup. Three teams competed in a round robin competition, with the top teams and the bottom team proceeding to their respective sections of the play-offs: the top teams played for advanced to the 2020 Billie Jean King Cup Play-offs.


2020 Billie Jean King Cup Americas Zone Group I – Pool A, Standings
Standings are determined by: 1) Number of wins; 2) Number of matches; 3) In two-team ties, head-to-head records; 4) In three-team ties, (a) percentage of matches won (head-to-head records if two teams remain tied), then (b) percentage of sets won (head-to-head records if two teams remain tied), then (c) percentage of games won (head-to-head records if two teams remain tied), then (d) Billie Jean King Cup rankings


2020 Billie Jean King Cup Americas Zone Group I – Pool B
Pool B of the 2020 Billie Jean King Cup Americas Zone Group I was one of two pools in the Americas zone of the 2020–21 Billie Jean King Cup. Four teams competed in a round robin competition, with the top teams and the bottom teams proceeding to their respective sections of the play-offs: the top teams played for advanced to the 2020 Billie Jean King Cup Play-offs.


2020 Billie Jean King Cup Americas Zone Group I – Pool B, Standings
Standings are determined by: 1) Number of wins; 2) Number of matches; 3) In two-team ties, head-to-head records; 4) In three-team ties, (a) percentage of matches won (head-to-head records if two teams remain tied), then (b) percentage of sets won (head-to-head records if two teams remain tied), then (c) percentage of games won (head-to-head records if two teams remain tied), then (d) Billie Jean King Cup rankings


2020 Billie Jean King Cup Asia/Oceania Zone Group I – Pool A
Pool A of the 2020 Billie Jean King Cup Asia/Oceania Zone Group I was the only pool in the Asia/Oceania zone of the 2020–21 Billie Jean King Cup. Six teams competed in a round robin competition and the top two teams advanced to Play-offs, while the bottom two teams were relegated to Group II. The event was moved and postponed a month from Dongguan, China to Dubai, United Arab Emirates due to the COVID-19 pandemic.


2020 Billie Jean King Cup Asia/Oceania Zone Group I – Pool A, Standings
Standings are determined by: 1) Number of wins; 2) Number of matches; 3) In two-team ties, head-to-head records; 4) In three-team ties, (a) percentage of matches won (head-to-head records if two teams remain tied), then (b) percentage of sets won (head-to-head records if two teams remain tied), then (c) percentage of games won (head-to-head records if two teams remain tied), then (d) Billie Jean King Cup rankings


2020 Billie Jean King Cup Asia/Oceania Zone Group I – Pool A, Round-robin, China vs. Uzbekistan
Notes. Due to China's retirement from the doubles rubber, the scores are counted as 7–5, 6–0 win for Uzbekistan.


2020 Billie Jean King Cup Asia/Oceania Zone Group II – Pool A (Wellington)
Pool A (Wellington) of the 2020–21 Billie Jean King Cup Asia/Oceania Zone Group II was one of four pools in the Asia/Oceania zone of the 2020–21 Billie Jean King Cup. Four teams competed in a round robin competition, with the top team and the bottom teams proceeding to their respective sections of the play-offs: the top team played for advancement to Group I.