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Nov 10 2012

Mass. College Football: Saturday Afternoon Scoreboard

By NoontimeSports.com 

Here are the results from Saturday’s afternoon affairs.

* Framingham State 28, Salve Regina 16 (NEFC Championship)

* Mount Ida 52, Castleton State 28 (ECFC Championship)

* New Haven 37, American International 12 (NE-10 Conference Championship)

* Norwich 47, Becker College 14

* Anna Maria 44, Husson 42 (3OT)

* So. Connecticut 13, Stonehill College 10

* Bentley University 20, Assumption College 13

* Merrimack College 62, Saint Anselm 26

* Penn 30, Harvard 21

* UMass 22, Akron 14

* Wagner 31, Holy Cross 30

* Springfield College 62, WPI 23

* Amherst College 23, Williams College 20

* Middlebury College 35, Tufts University 13

Mar 8 2011

The Show Goes On… Princeton Wins, Forces a One Game Playoff

The Princeton Tigers took care of business Tuesday and will face Harvard for the Ivy League crown!

The Princeton Tigers and Harvard Crimson live another day, as the Ivy League will see yet another one game playoff, which will take place Saturday at Yale University to decide the true champion of the conference, as well as the school that will earn the automatic bid into this years March Madness tournament.

Princeton finished their regular season on Tuesday with an important win against University of Pennsylvania, as the Tigers won 70-58.

Kareem Maddox led the Tigers with 23 points, while Ian Hummer and Dan Mavraides combined for 14 rebounds.

Despite a 23-19 lead at halftime, the Quakers surrendered 51 second half points to the Tigers, which allowed Princeton to earn its fourth win in the last five games.

The Quakers were led by Tyler Bernardini, who scored 18 points off the bench who was truly there only star of the evening.

Princeton is [1-1] this season against Harvard University, but will look to capture the Ivy League title on Saturday and move onto the NCAA Division I tournament. The Tigers last won the conference in 2004 and have appeared 23 times in the March Madness tournament.

Mar 1 2011

Should the Ivy League have a Conference Basketball Tournament?

By Matt Noonan

Ever since the Ivy League athletic conference came together in 1935, both the men’s and women’s basketball teams have never taken part in a league tournament to decide the true NCAA March Madness representative. Instead, once the season has officially ended, whichever team, both in the men’s and women’s standings that finished with the best record in division play, is crowned the champion.

However, wouldn’t it be more enjoyable to have a quick round robin tournament or possibly, an Ivy League Final Four? Wouldn’t it seem fair to allow the schools that finished in second, third or fourth place the opportunity to play one or two more games of basketball?

You may think that I am rooting for the underdogs or losers, but what is especially fun about college basketball in March is the various conference championships, which are the prelude to the gigantic NCAA Division I tournament. Everyone seems to get revved up and extremely excited for these various tournaments, which always produce great basketball and dramatic memories.

Yet, the Ivy League is not the Big East, ACC or Pac-10, but instead, a boring conference that just chooses one winner and doesn’t have a conference tournament.

Why not have a conference tournament, wouldn’t that be enjoyable, exciting or worth watching? Wouldn’t various Ivy League fans, students, professors and parents all attend the weekend event? Come on, it’s college basketball, of course they would!

Over the years, the Ivy League has featured some great basketball contests that are not always overlooked, but instead, featured across the various media outlets across the country.

Weren’t you rooting for Cornell to beat the University of Kentucky last March? Sure, it seemed like a long shot that the Big Red would win and advance to the elite eight, which has never occurred in Cornell’s school history, but it just seems that come tournament time, fans want to root for the underdog or a team that doesn’t receive the national attention.

The current Ivy League season in the men’s division has been rather intriguing, as both Harvard and Princeton remain locked atop the standings. If Harvard wins their final two regular season contests that occur this weekend, which includes games against University of Pennsylvania and Princeton, then the Crimson would force a one-game playoff, which has occurred over the years.

In 2009, Cornell, Dartmouth, Yale and Princeton were all vying for the top spot and a possible playoff system was being established incase of a four way tie atop the league standings occurred. Although, Cornell eventually edged out their opponents and earned a trip to Boise, Idaho, where they lost to a much more powerful and athletic team, Missouri, 78-59.

In 2002, Yale and Princeton needed one more game to decide the true conference winner and once their final matchup was over, the Bulldogs won the division and secured the automatic NCAA tournament bid.

See, the Ivy League has had some form of a small tournament or at least, a “championship game” that mattered, so why not extend the season for an extra day or two? If fans are interested in attending a one-game playoff, then certainly they’d want to be there for an Ivy League conference tournament.

Having an Ivy League conference championship would prove that they’re just as important as other schools, such as Duke, University of North Carolina, Texas, Kansas State and Syracuse University. If you pay attention to Ivy League basketball, it is possible that you would know that Harvard and Cornell have faced off against some of the true powerhouse schools, as well as those that are receiving Top-25 votes.

All in all, lets have an Ivy League conference championship because otherwise, it just seems boring to have an automatic shoe-in.