Word: ncaas
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...keep playing like she did against Dartmouth on March 8, a trip to the NCAA tournament will be anything but a surprise...
Kathy Delaney-Smith hung up her whistle for a little while last March, after Harvard fell to Dartmouth in an Ivy League tie-breaker just one game before the NCAA tournament...
Delaney-Smith is also the winningest women’s coach in the history of the Ivy League, and her 215 league victories are second only to the legendary Pete Carill of Princeton, who tallied 315 wins. She remains the only head coach in NCAA history to guide a No. 16 seed to a win over a No. 1 in the NCAA tournament, which she did against Stanford...
...most important point to consider is that every team has question marks surrounding it. Despite the fact that Penn garnered all 16 first-place votes, it is not immune to the uncertainty bug. The team that earns the Ivy title and the NCAA bid this year will not be the one that merely avoided injuries and kept from falling asleep on a grueling back-to-back Ivy weekend. Rather, it will be the one that recognized its holes and found the pieces to fill them...
...think tradition is one thing, and facilities are another thing,” Sullivan says. “Kids that are going through this recruiting process now are very consumed with getting to the NCAA tournament, and when you have two schools that have been there 28 out of the last 30 times, I think that becomes very attractive...