Word: round-robin
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...athletic directors were hardly rooting out an ivy-encrusted tradition when they made their decision last May: women's athletics at Ivy League schools have only been flourishing for the past seven or eight years. Rather, the athletic directors feel that round-robin matches will upgrade women's athletics at Ivy schools and encourage them to put the same amount of commitment and funds into the women's programs as they have for men's sports...
...want to establish a strong committment to women's athletics," said Brown University athletic director John Parry. The round-robin system is "a purer way to define a champion" He added, "If a team can sustain its winning streak through seven games, that team is certainly worthy of the Ivy championship. But what happens if the star player happens to be injured the one weekend of the tournament...
...round-robin system will force coaches to reassess their teams, especially the fledgling one such as ice hockey--to which the commitment and intensity of the Ivy schools ranges from "quasi-club" to varsity. Coaches will have to ask themselves if their team is of a high-enough caliber to survive continuous Ivy League competition. Before, Parry said, "it was all too easy to jump into a championship meet." The round-robin system, he added, "will lead to consistency in all our programs...
Playing before packed crowds at the IAB Saturday and Sunday, the women's volleyball team placed fifth in the annual Ivy League Championships with a record of 3-4. Princeton won the eight-team round-robin tournament after beating previously undefeated Cornell in the finals...
...home-court coach, Altman seeded the teams for the tournament--ranking Harvard fourth behind last year's top three finishers--Princeton, Penn and Cornell. The former MIT volleyball player said the seeding is inconsequential in a round-robin tournament where each team plays all the others--except that it allows the pivotal games to be played on the second day of the tournament...