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It was supposed to all be over.Ivy League play should have been a thing of the past: the Harvard women’s basketball team should have been biding its time as the conference’s champion and automatic bid-winner, waiting for the NCAA Tournament committee to announce...
In case you missed it, the women’s basketball season ended last weekend in a state of confusion. Three teams—Cornell, Dartmouth, and Harvard—all finished with identical 11-3 records in league play.
And now, because of this seemingly ridiculous decision, Cornell gets to play only one game to win the championship while Dartmouth and Harvard must play two. Cornell didn’t receive this advantage because they deserved it over the other two teams. They were simply the beneficiaries of an...
On the men’s side, Cornell clearly deserves a shot at the NCAAs. They’ve gone undefeated and have thoroughly dominated their Ivy foes.
And if a case arises like the Cornell men’s basketball team this year – where a team is clearly better than its league peers – they should have no trouble proving their supremacy in a high-stakes tournament pool. If they were to...