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Username Post: Early Season "Swing Games"
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11-07-17 08:40 PM - Post#235636    

If one combines amalgamated Pre-Season Rankings with game location, one can: a) get a sense of individual Ivy team records at the start of league play; and b) come up with a series of Ivy/non-con “swing” games to watch over the next three weeks.

The way that pre-season is scheduled, it looks as if Brown, Columbia, Cornell, and Dartmouth will be hard put to come out of the pre-season with more than four W’s each. The start for the Lions looks particularly brutal. The other four schools have a much better chance of heading into league play with winning records. However, it will be tough for any of them to get double digit wins. Without knowing four or five non-predictable matchups that will occur in pre-season tournaments, the Ivies will do well to enter league play with a combined .500 record.

The early-season games below should be tightly contested. The overall trend in these 12 games may give early hints as to how the individual teams, and the league as a whole will fare this year:
Penn@Fairfield (Sa 11-Nov)
Brown@Quinnipiac (M 13-Nov)
LaSalle@Penn (M 13-Nov)
BYU@Prin (W 15-Nov)
Yale@Albany (F 17-Nov)
Brown@St. Francis (NY) (Su 19-Nov)
Cornell@UMass Lowell (Su 19-Nov)
LIU@Brown (Sa 25-Nov)
Yale@Vermont (Sa 25-Nov)
Brown@Bryant (Su 26-Nov)
Loyola (MD)@Dartmouth (Tu 28-Nov)
Dartmouth@Sacred Heart (Tu 5-Dec)

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