Word: berthed
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...regularly scheduled meeting, the directors listened to the presentation of a subcommittee of Ivy administrators formed to investigate the feasibility of a postseason league tournament, which would determine who received the league’s automatic berth in the NCAA tournament...
Penn and Princeton have dominated the league since its formal inception in 1955-56, and the last time a non-P won the league outright was Cornell in 1988. Either the Quakers or Tigers have gained a share of the league title, and captured the berth in the NCAA tournament, in 42 of the past 44 seasons...
...season, as Bilski correctly points out. If Penn or Princeton wins the league, only to be knocked out in a first round upset in the conference tournament, it is highly unlikely that their Ratings Percentage Index (RPI) score would be strong enough to get them an at-large berth in the NCAAs...
...Harvard secures the wild-card berth, they will face strong competition from other countries. The past eight world champions have all come from foreign universities, including Saratov State University in Russia, Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China, and Warsaw University in Poland...
...it—this could be the most exciting sporting event (and possibly the most supported and best attended, excluding football games) of my entire four years here. What better way to stick it to those Eli punks who show up in Cambridge than by watching an Elite Eight berth in the making?Okay, so obviously this fantasy of mine, if possible, is far-fetched. But let’s break down why this is going to, or, for those who would label themselves “realistic,” could happen.First of all, Harvard needs to beat UCLA...