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Halting a trend toward more participation in post-season torment play, the Ivy League presidents decided today not to allow any Ivy basketball teams to accept a bid to the National Invitational Tournament...
...League champion is automatically included in the NCAA tournament, the only post-season tournament that any Ivy team is allowed to compete in. Ivy League teams can participate in vacation tournaments during the regular season, but the runner-up is denied the chance to play in any post-season tournament...
...decision on participation in the NIT was made in response to a request by Columbia president Andrew Cordier that the traditional post-season tournament restriction be repealed. The presidents of four colleges-Columbia. Pennsylvania. Princeton, and Cornell-voted to lift the post-season tournament ban, but a unanimous decision was needed...
...result, the Eli swimming team, a perennial national power, will be banned from post-season competition, and two Blue track men- Don Martin and Kwaku Ohene-Frempong- will not be able to run in either of the NCAA meets in March and June...
...that Texas deserved its ranking as the nation's No. 1 team. Texas (10-0) faced a fired-up Notre Dame team (8-1-1) that still plays every game for the galvanizing ghosts of Gipp and Rockne. Beyond that, the Fighting Irish were performing in their first post-season game since beating Stanford 27-10 in the 1925 Rose Bowl...