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SteveChop 
PhD Student
Posts: 1150

Reg: 07-28-07
05-24-18 05:25 PM - Post#257172    
    In response to Jeff2sf

A capacity of 2532! What a joke! It will sell out b/c it is less that 1/3 the size of the Palestra (which was close to a sellout both years). Way to enhance the revenue stream Robin Harris.

Why do I see James Jones' handprints all over this choice? Perhaps he will require that the banner be put up at Yale regardless of who wins. Even Amaker said that the Palestra is the right venue for this tournament. Watch for the ticket prices to go back to the level they were at for the first Ivy tournament in 2017 (or higher).

As an interesting side note, remember when the complaint was that either Penn or Princeton won the Ivy title every year. So far there have been four Ivy championships (oh, OK, NCAA tournament slots) decided by this cockamamie tournament. And they went … two to Penn and two to Princeton.

While I will concede that the games have been exciting both years, this idea remains a terrible one until the Ivy League has a realistic chance of getting a second bid to the NCAA. And they MUST look at the tiebreaker selections. Because of the stupid Ivy League rules, had Penn not won the tournament title, they would NOT have been guaranteed a spot in the NIT.

And no one ever responded to the loss of a game for the four teams who don't make the tournament (they remain locked in at 27, not 28, games).

This tournament remains a bad idea.

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