JDP
Masters Student
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Reg: 11-23-04
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02-13-23 12:24 PM - Post#351532
In response to CM
The Ivy League schedule traditionally had a lot of trap games … long bus ride after a Friday night game – Columbia & Cornell, Dartmouth & Harvard … having to play the Ps back to back is hard to bring A games both nights, not really a trap. But now that the schedule has more single game weekends than back-to-back games (3) … Far fewer upsets from trap games are filtering in – especially where a team not competing for a Ivy Madness birth beats a team in the mix.
For the women, in the past two seasons, only one game stands out where a bottom three team has beaten a top 5 team. Harvard lost at Cornell on a back-to-back in 2022. Columbia losing at Penn after a critical OT win at Princeton may be a trap game by some – but as only 1 game separate 1st and 2nd, one could debate how to classify that game. But both games in question are Saturday night games on the road after a Friday game.
This weekend only two games really fall into the observed pattern – bottom three team after an important Friday game:
Columbia at Dartmouth
Penn at Brown
I would not include Princeton at Yale in the mix or Cornell at Harvard.
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