Grr... Yale gets a couple of easy out-of-conference wins but finishes fourth in the Ivy League yet makes the tournament, but Penn finishes third in the Ancient Eight but doesn't get to go to Villanova (talk about an easy trip for an Ivy school) because they lost to Cal-Berkeley.
Yeah, i was really confused by that, too. I thought, perhaps mistakenly, that I saw that Dartmouth beat them in the final, so Penn therefore finishes second, and would get the first Ivy at large bid if any were to be given. Am I missing something? Go Quakers!
We beat Dartmouth 2-1. The full table is at http://www.ivyleaguesports.com/sports/standings.asp?intSID=4 It's kinda confusing but I suppose that's the point...
And Harvard beats Princeton, ends up 3rd in the Ivy, and with a tough out of league schedule Harvard does not make it in. And then Brown beats Yale, and 5th place Yale gets in. This makes no sense.
Well, if you're going to take it that far, Ivy League sports don't make any sense in the first place no matter what they are.
if you insist... 1) lack of athletic scholarships (which i don't really object to) leads to lack of money leads to lack of television leads to everybody in the country dissing penn because they are, in theory, a bunch of rich white guys who can't play sports 2) people dis ivy students for being too smart and too pretentious. a lot of us are, to be sure, but not all of us, thank you very much 3) the ivy presidents are trying to decrease the number of recruiting slots per school at the same time as ivy teams are getting quite good, especially basketball and soccer 4) penn owns the palestra and franklin field but can't get jack *beep* from espn 5) penn is hosting espn's college gameday show this weekend 6) the penn-harvard game, which is why the traveling circus is setting up shop next to my dorm as we speak, is a battle of two of the best undefeated teams in I-AA, but is stuck on the YES network, which isn't even on Philly cable. 7) look for a poster in the crowd promoting the USA-El Salvador game... that's me. 8) it's going to be raining and freezing cold for the biggest piece of sports exposure this university has gotten in a long time. 'nuff said?
I live over in Pittsburgh, and follow Carnegie Mellon University, which is also a highly regarded school in a league of highly regarded schools (the DIII University Athletic Association). Personally, besides just liking the neighborhood and campus of CMU, I love watching people pour their guts out on the field AND in the classroom. I wish I had that sort of intensity. And if people who go to such schools have a snob's reputation, so be it. They deserve to be snobs, even if they aren't!