Word: ncaas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When David fought Goliath he had an easier time than when Ivy League teams play in the NCAA basketball tournament. In the first round of the 1988 tourney, the score was Arizona 90, Ivy League Champion Cornell 50. The year before, North Carolina crushed Penn, 113-82. In 1986, Syracuse beat Brown by 49 points...
...quack and you waddle you're a duck," Brown Coach Mike Cingiser says. "We can pretend we're really Division I schools, but in reality we're still a duck. If you look at what we are, we're a Division III school. The first round of the NCAA tournament is the first day of duck hunting season. We are a quack in Division...
...League already suffers from a lack of basketball respect. The conference champ is always seeded last in its region in the NCAA tourney, partly because it is assumed that the level of competition in the Ivy League is much lower than in other conferences. The result is that the Ivy League champ has to face the very best teams in the nation--the Syracuses, North Carolinas and Arizonas. As long as the Ivy League continues to adhere strictly to the Academic Index and allow top basketball players to be lured away to other schools by scholarships, the League will continue...
Harvard faces New Hampshire on Saturday. Its chances for an NCAA Tournament bid appear to be good. The Crimson, ranked seventh in last week's poll, has won four games since the last rankings, including a convincing win over 10th-ranked and perennial power Maryland. Only six teams make the tournament...
...women's tennis team is looking to win its sixth straight Ivy title and receive its fifth straight NCAA bid. The NCAA Tournament will be held at UCLA next month. Harvard (15-7 overall, 4-0 Ivy League) rushed Yale, 7-2, last Saturday, setting up an Ivy title showdown against Dartmouth tomorrow...