Word: playoff
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...basketball team is hungry for more. The team ended last year with its second consecutive Ancient Eight title, but was forced to share the crown with Dartmouth and Cornell. Now the Crimson is looking for revenge after falling to Dartmouth as part of the three-team playoff and missing out on the Big Dance...
...Crimson sat in the driver’s seat entering the final weekend of Ivy play in March: win out, and it would retain its sole grip on the Ancient Eight crown. But a loss in a lackluster effort at Yale the following weekend forced a three-game playoff atop the league standings, eventually sending the Big Red to the NCAA tournament and Harvard home...
...oldest of the bunch, Riley served as the Crimson’s backup goalie last season.He first saw college action in last season’s victory against Yale in which he stopped four shots in four minutes. The next time Riley saw playing time—the ECAC playoff opener against Quinnipiac—the Illinois native recorded two saves.“[Riley]’s a guy that’s really been one of our hardest workers from the day he’s arrived, both on and off the ice,” Donato...
...Goodell recently sent a memo to teams, warning them that league revenues would be "under pressure." He asked them to control costs and seek new revenue streams. This season, baseball attendance fell about 1%, the first drop in four years, and that demand is reflected in the market for playoff tickets. Last year, a ticket for a Boston Red Sox American League Championship Series game sold for an average of $448 on StubHub.com, the leading secondary-market ticket site. This year, that average price dipped like the Dow: it was $244, a decline of about 50%. In the Tampa area...
...reasoning, you’re probably sane, so let’s move on and talk about some football.Take a cursory look below at the records of the Ivy League teams, while remembering that non-conference games don’t count for anything and there is no playoff system in the Ancient Eight.You’ll notice that the only consistent teams in the Ivies right now are Dartmouth and Columbia, and that’s only because they are equally terrible, although—SPOILER ALERT—if you read my picks you?...