Word: tournaments
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When David fought Goliath he had an easier time than when Ivy League teams play in the NCAA basketball tournament. In the first round of the 1988 tourney, the score was Arizona 90, Ivy League Champion Cornell 50. The year before, North Carolina crushed Penn, 113-82. In 1986, Syracuse beat Brown by 49 points...
...quack and you waddle you're a duck," Brown Coach Mike Cingiser says. "We can pretend we're really Division I schools, but in reality we're still a duck. If you look at what we are, we're a Division III school. The first round of the NCAA tournament is the first day of duck hunting season. We are a quack in Division...
...League officially became part of Division I-AA, which features a post-season tournament. (Teams are assigned to divisions based on the number of spectators they draw.) In 1986, the Penn football team was ranked number seven in the Division I-AA poll and would have earned a bid to the playoff had it been eligible. This fall, Harvard was ranked in the top 20 within Division I-AA, but could not test its talents against other highly-ranked schools...
Besides, these administrators say, the Division I-AA playoff format--a grueling, four-game tournament spread out over five weeks--would keep players on the playing fields and away from the classrooms...
Harvard faces New Hampshire on Saturday. Its chances for an NCAA Tournament bid appear to be good. The Crimson, ranked seventh in last week's poll, has won four games since the last rankings, including a convincing win over 10th-ranked and perennial power Maryland. Only six teams make the tournament...