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...League's increasing efforts to close financial and philosophical gaps between men's and women's athletic programs. Recently, the Ivy athletic directors voted to discontinue the practice of determining women's championships in a one-shot tournament and instead the League's female athletes will play round-robin schedules just as their male counterparts have always done...
...want to establish a strong commitment to women's athletics, and the round-robin system is a purer method of determining a champion," said Brown athletic director John Parry. "If a team can sustain its winning streak through seven games that team is certainly worthy of the Ivy championship. But what happens is the star player happens to be injured the one weekend of the tournament...
...spikers earned a semifinal berth by capturing first place in one of the tournament's two round-robin pools. Harvard dropped only one game in play against Columbia, Brown and Penn, then swept its semifinal match with Dartmouth to earn a spot in the tournament final...
...League's championship, which has belonged exclusively to Princeton, will, from now on, go to the winners of the regular season's round-robin schedule. This system, though, will not skirt the problem of the league's disparity. Harvard, for example, will now have to swim against the likes of lowly Cornell, Penn. Barnard, and Dartmouth in dual-meets...
...Women's basketball teams have been under the round-robin system for two years but have also participated in an Ivy tournament at the end of the season with the seeding for the tournament determined from the results of the round robin. But change will not rebound off the hoopster's backboard; next year, women's basketball will switch to a double round robin in lieu of the tournament, with every team playing each other twice during the year...