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From the very beginning of the season, Harvard’s performance during December was to be a key time for self-definition, as it would face some of the nation’s best teams. While it will take stellar play in the ECAC to guarantee a postseason berth, games against Minnesota-Duluth, New Hampshire (UNH), and the Big Green were to be more accurate barometers of where the Crimson ranks in the women’s game...
...worth asking, however, whether an Ivy postseason tournament would be a good thing. The purest, most fair way of determining the league winner is to see who plays the best throughout the season, as Bilski correctly points out. If Penn or Princeton wins the league, only to be knocked out in a first round upset in the conference tournament, it is highly unlikely that their Ratings Percentage Index (RPI) score would be strong enough to get them an at-large berth in the NCAAs...
...pros of the postseason tournament, however, outweigh the cons for one simple reason: the current state of affairs in the Ivy League is one of extreme stagnation. A postseason tournament, even if it only included the top four teams, would give teams at the bottom of the standings an incentive to fight for that crucial last playoff spot, rather than to play out the string in meaningless games. As it stands now, every year is the same, with Princeton or Penn coming out on top, and every year a multitude of pointless games are played down the stretch between...
...wrestling with attendance issues, at every school in our league, and [a postseason tournament] to me would be great for student athlete welfare, wonderful for the student body at those schools,” Sullivan said. “They’d like to see meaningful exciting games that have some merit [at season’s end]. It’s a great way to create excitement, great way to create interest, and it’s what our student athletes want...
...league badly needs an infusion of energy, and the best solution is a postseason tournament. Ultimately, what the players want should be the deciding factor, and it is evident that the players want badly to experience the excitement that a tournament would bring...