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...point is moot, however, because on Monday the booters defeated Yale, 1-0 (2-1 on penalty kicks), in the first round of the NCAA tourney, and gained the home-field advantage for their next playoff game, Sunday against Boston University...
Harvard (which finished 1-2 in the competition) opened the tourney with a loss to third-seeded Princeton but bounced back with a win over Dartmouth in the first round of the losers bracket...
More important, perhaps, both squads have also earned berths in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) post-season tournament--a tourney which opens with Sunday's match-up at Ohiri...
...Princeton has won the Ivy Championship six times, Penn twice, and Yale once. The last, and only, time the Ivy tournament was held at Harvard was in 1981. That same year, the spikers placed fourth with a 3-4 record--the Crimson's best finish ever at an Ivy tourney...
...England's regional champion will face the victor of New York's Hartwick-Long Island University contest in the quarterfinals. Two years ago, when the Crimson last participated in the NCAA tourney, it advanced as far as the quarterfinals before falling to U.C.L.A...