Word: postseason
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...NCAA, by banning 18 schools with “hostile or abusive” mascots from postseason play last August, is the true instigator of this complaint. The update issued by the organization in late April indicates that six offenders, including North Dakota and Illinois (Fighting Illini), remain, four, including Florida State and Utah, have been excused, five have changed or are changing their nicknames, and four linger under some form of review. Harper and Dartmouth’s athletic department are falling in step with the attitude of the self-righteous NCAA (don’t get me started...
...matter that the Bruins earned a spot in the national championship game? Because just under a month ago, UCLA sent a promising Crimson squad home for the winter with a sound 3-0 defeat in the second round of the tournament. Harvard had entered the postseason as the highest-scoring team in the country and, after a gritty win over Binghamton at home in the opening round, looked like it might have the promise...
...currently embroiled in a lawsuit with the NCAA over last year’s decision to prohibit the 18 schools that use Native American imagery from displaying those marks on their uniforms in postseason play. Those schools also cannot host postseason games...
...experience and depth.Player to Watch: Joey RhoadsRhoads might be only 5’4, but Penn’s diminutive guard has a pure stroke and a knack for finding a hole on the perimeter.PRINCETON First team All-Ivy selection Meghan Cowher didn’t have quite the postseason her father, Steelers coach Bill Cowher, had last year. Bill won a Super Bowl, while Cowher’s Tigers fell to Dartmouth in the Ivy playoff. Cowher returns, as does Katy Digovich, who took last season off. The problem: the graduation of forward Becky Brown leaves Princeton very vulnerable...
We’re past luck. The next two weeks are essentially the Ivy League playoffs, and in a postseason atmosphere, luck is out the window and balance...