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E-PrinceThe final buzzer that ended the men’s basketball team’s 72-66 victory over Columbia this weekend doubled as a death knell for the Lions’ conference title hopes. They entered the winter as the Ancient Eight’s consensus dark horse ...
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Everyone's overlooking Brown in this equation. Sure, they might be 2-2 but both their losses have been on the road in overtime (or double overtime, as the case was against Harvard). Princeton better watch out on Friday, because this is an upset waiting to happen. No one in the Ivy League is good enough this year to really have a smooth sailing season, and playing Columbia at Columbia is sure to be quite the test too. Don't say that Princeton and Harvard are clear from here on out, because they most certainly aren't.
@look a little closer:
Totally agree. Any team can win on a given night. The only school (with talent) who will not succeed is Penn because of very poor coaching. Hopefully their AD will not make a change soon.
Before we can anoint ourselves the new favorite in the conference race, we have to answer the question, "Which games were the flukes, Harvard's near misses against Dartmouth, Yale and Brown, or its earlier non-conference schedule, in which the Crimson looked like a slim but definite favorite to win the 2013 Ivy title?"
I'm not ready to conclude that the Ivy games were the fluke, in which case Harvard still looks like the favorite. I hope I'm wrong, of course, but until we know why the Crimson have been shaky recently, we shouldn't assume that the Dartmouth, Yale and Brown games reflect fundamental weakness.
Security word: "Orange." Damn straight.