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Harvard (22-5, 13-1) closed out its best Ivy season since the 1996-97 undefeated team at the expense of the Big Green (11-16, 7-7). The Crimson, which clinched the outright Ivy title and an automatic NCAA berth last Friday, will now will await the tournament selection...
Blumberg, who entered the tournament with the only undefeated personal record for the Crimson, won the consolation bracket over Yale No. 1 Anshul Manchanda, 9-4, 9-2, 7-9, 9-7. Manchanda had lost to No. 3 Will Evans, who was the eventual tournament runner-up.
“I wasn’t expecting to be undefeated, especially considering the people in the intercollegiates,” Blumberg said. “It wasn’t something that was pressuring me.”
Penn, for all its celebration last year after winning 21 straight games and completeing an undefeated Ivy season, was blown away 100-57 by Texas Tech at NCAAs—far and away the worst Ivy loss in postseason history.
But three of those conferences—the Horizon League, the Mid-Continent Conference, and the Patriot League—all had teams within 11 spots of Harvard in the RPI, and these teams could be seeded above Harvard if either their RPI improves due to conference tournament wins, or...