bradley
PhD Student
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Age: 75
Reg: 01-15-16
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03-05-20 07:03 PM - Post#303136
In response to Tiger69
Ivy Madness is well named. I hope that this is not overconfident to say. But, I really don’t see anyone stopping the women in the silly tournament. They are head and shoulders above the rest of the League. It would take a major event to stop them before the NCAAs. GO TIGERS!
This weekend, the Columbia game is probably going to be more challenging than Cornell and it may be far more challenging than one might think. Nolan has it only as a 15 pt spread. Columbia has won the prior 6 games with 5 of them pretty handily. Columbia's coach, former Princeton Assistant Coach, is very good and she has a team that is young but maturing. Columbia will be a player over the next 2 to 3 years.
Coach Berube on her podcast received a bunch of questions regarding IvyMadness and the NCAAW Tournament. She wanted no part of the discussion as not only did she give the normal coach talk of one game at a time but it is actually convincing based on her comments.
She did share that she watched her former team, Tufts, lose in the conference final after being 26-0 but they are going to the NCAA Tournament.
Banghart's NC team lost the last 6 in a row after being 16-6 and got knocked out of the ACC Tournament but she will get NC to improve next year.
Finally, Bella made the NCAAW first team players of the week. Hopefully, Bella will help the Tigers in the seeding process but probably not.
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