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While Harvard (5-17) has had the Ivies??€™ most dominant offense in recent seasons, the bats have been much more silent so far against the Crimson’s tough nonconference opposition. Only sophomore catcher Laura Miller and tri-captain Tiffany Whitton are hitting above .300 among regular starters...
Levien Gym, home of the win-starved Columbia men’s basketball team, was in face-saving mode this weekend. On the verge of the Ivies??€™ first winless campaign in 40 years, the embattled doormat hosted two of the league’s next-easiest marks, Harvard and Dartmouth, in its penultimate chance to spare itself some embarrassment...
John Feinstein acknowledged as much two weeks ago at a Harvard panel discussion. Asked if he thought the league’s coaches were frustrated by the Ivies??€™ self-imposed obstacles to competitiveness on a national basis, he suggested that most of them might like the security of the league’s softened expectations more than they think...
Gavitt concurred that the Ivies??€™ stance is unlikely to be adopted elsewhere. He expressed regret that as the Ivy schools have become less competitive in Division I, the once highly influential voices of the conference’s athletic directors have become silent...
...fact, it’s a somewhat incomplete outlook. One can look at this clear-cut dichotomy between the evil, winner-take-all world of college sports and the Ivy League bubble and assume that the Ivies??€™ competitive philosophy boils down to a noble, sustained mediocrity. It would not be true. In reality, the conference is very much at odds with itself, its constituent parts seething and struggling within the competitive barriers that the league’s own noble bargain has erected...