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...clearly the first time that the movement [for a postseason tournament] has come from the directors as opposed to the grassroots efforts, the coaches. So I thought it was a positive step,” said Harvard coach Frank Sullivan, who chaired a coaches committee formed 12 years ago to investigate the issue, a movement ultimately shot down by opposition from Penn and Princeton. Of the 31 Division I basketball conferences, the Ivy League is the only one without a postseason tournament, and thus the only one to determine its winner based upon the regular season...
...There’s certainly more dialogue about it that than there ever has been, which is good,” Sullivan said. “Through the years it’s been dismissed, and dismissed quickly. This is the first time that we’re getting the feeling that people do want to talk about...
...short, Ancient Eight basketball is slowly dying. Harvard coach Frank Sullivan, who in his 16th season at the school is currently the longest tenured coach in the Ivy League and the longest tenured in the Crimson’s history, has stated that the talent base of the league in general is no longer what it was, and Ivy teams have been beaten soundly in their recent forays into the NCAA tournament. This lessening in overall talent could conceivably lead to a lessening in the gap between the top and bottom teams, but that parity has to this point...
...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...
...Albany is a lure of a carrot because they were an NCAA team last year,” said Crimson head coach Frank Sullivan. “They are very talented. It is an important game in the sense that it is a high-caliber team...