How this weekend's games can determine the Ivy champion
Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2011 6:59 am
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How the Ivy League handles playoff situations:
Harvard faces Penn and Princeton at home this weekend. Princeton faces Dartmouth and Harvard on the road this weekend. Dartmouth is the last-place team in Ivy men's basketball this season.The scenarios going into this weekend are as follows:
If Harvard and Princeton both win OR both lose Friday:
• A Princeton win Saturday would clinch the outright Ivy title for the Tigers.
• A Harvard win Saturday would force Princeton to defeat Penn Tuesday, March 8 to necessitate a playoff.
• A Harvard win Saturday, coupled with a Princeton loss at Penn Tuesday, would give the outright Ivy title to the Crimson.
If Harvard wins Friday, Princeton loses Friday:
• A Harvard win Saturday would clinch the outright Ivy title for the Crimson.
• A Princeton win Saturday, coupled with a Princeton win Tuesday at Penn, would clinch the outright title for the Tigers.
• A Princeton win Saturday, coupled with a Princeton loss Tuesday at Penn, would force a playoff.
If Harvard loses Friday, Princeton wins Friday:
• A Princeton win EITHER Saturday OR Tuesday at Penn would clinch the outright title for the Tigers.
• A Harvard win Saturday would only result in a playoff if Princeton loses at Penn Tuesday. Harvard would not be able to have an outright title if it loses Friday and Princeton wins Friday.
How the Ivy League handles playoff situations:
We hope that Harvard can play their best to punch their second ever Big Dance ticket. (The first and last time we were there was before most of us were born, in 1946. We lost to NYU that year.)The Ivy League conducts a playoff in men's basketball when two or more teams tie for the regular-season title. The tied teams share the League championship and the playoff game(s) are conducted merely to determine the team to receive the League's automatic bid to the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship. While it has been a while, a playoff is not new to the Ancient Eight in men's hoops. The League has conducted seven men's basketball playoffs in its history, the last coming in the 2001-02 season when Penn, Princeton and Yale tied for the Ivy title. Penn won the NCAA Tournament bid by defeating Yale in Easton, Pa., after the Bulldogs had gotten past Princeton two days earlier at The Palestra.
