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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...
...League already suffers from a lack of basketball respect. The conference champ is always seeded last in its region in the NCAA tourney, partly because it is assumed that the level of competition in the Ivy League is much lower than in other conferences. The result is that the Ivy League champ has to face the very best teams in the nation--the Syracuses, North Carolinas and Arizonas. As long as the Ivy League continues to adhere strictly to the Academic Index and allow top basketball players to be lured away to other schools by scholarships, the League will continue...
Harvard (4-0) finished the final race in 5:51.04, finishing almost 12 seconds in front of the Wisconsin Badgers. Earlier in the tournament, the oarsmen eliminated Washington and UCLA. Brown, Penn, Stanford and California-Berkeley filled out the eight-team field in the early-season tourney...
...Sunday the heavies cruised by UCLA by a comfortable eight-second margin in 7:11.77, having no problem handing the Bruins (7:19.41) their second loss of the tourney...
Yale and Brown tied for second with Radcliffe in the tourney. The Elis and Bruins also fell by close margins this weekend to the regatta-winning Huskies...