Way too early predictions for upcoming Ivy season

Ivy League
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Btw Caden and Ethan Roberts will be teammates this summer for 3x3 in the World University games!

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19 guys seems pretty unwieldy. It will be interesting to see how this works out.

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With new reality that you can transfer and make a $1m i expect even a ā€œhangnailā€ may be reason to injury redshirt

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Given that only a minority of students complete a bachelorā€™s degree in four years, I would like to see the NCAA grant all college students 5 years of sports eligibility. This could enhance basketball in the NIL era: no need to go to Europe to keep playing and get paid. An occasional player might even climb the ladder to the NBA with an additional year.

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I agree. Only challenge for the Ivies is itā€™s another year of tuition etc. Iā€™d also like to see the Ivy League allow grad students to play. Doesnā€™t help Princeton but itā€™s a small change that should happen. We lose some good student-athletes every year who are attractive grad school candidates. Columbiaā€™s Mike Smith was a great example. Good student who would have stayed for some of his MBA if allowed.

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Iā€™d need to be convinced that it would be a good idea to add a year of eligibility across the board. There are a finite number of athletes you can put on the field/court/rink/pool/river. The fifth-year seniors/grad students would take playing time from underclassmen. Is that self-evidently a good thing?

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An aspect I had not considered.

I think at least it would reduce the likelihood of a walk-on making the team.

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Fine for a NCAA rule but ivy league institutions are different. Yale requires all students finish their degrees in 4 years. I doubt they would change this for athletes.

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Yes, Princeton same rule.

But it would grant all such ivy athletes a fifth year in this country at another institution.

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Although I am not particularly invested in allowimg grad students, I suspect the counter argument is that you are replacing an undergrad spot with a grad student so no overall increase. IMO rosters are already large although I expect coaches would disagree.

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Are there any rules prohibiting power program with real salary budgets soliciting transfers from league?

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There are certainly rules, and ones that likely would apply in this case, but one only need to look at college softball to see loopholes may exist.

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Im expecting to see a rash of players sitting out after pre and early season ā€œinjuriesā€

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Anyone want to revise their picks for ooc so far?

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Last chance to reviseā€¦

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Well, here goes.
Yale

Cornell

Penn

Princeton

Columbia

Harvard

Brown

Dartmouth

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Trying one:
Yale

Harvard

Cornell

Princeton

Columbia

Penn

Dartmouth

Brown

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Why the enthusiasm for Harvard? I see they had justhad nice away win at Colgate
I hadnt been factoring them in much
Thanks

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A hard year to read, but I put weight on returning proven talent. I think, aside from yale, Hinton, Pigge

and Battie are the best trio returning. Barbour and Hunt are also talented. They are a bit under-sized and point guard is uncertain, but the League is down.

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My guesses are:

  1. Yale (I donā€™t think this Yale team is bulletproof, for Yale standards theyā€™re very weak defensively and on the glass. Have benefitted from incredibly hot shooting from deep in the non-con. Just not sure thereā€™s enough on the other competitors to top them)
  2. Columbia
  3. Cornell
  4. Penn
  5. Princeton
  6. Harvard
  7. Brown
  8. Dartmouth
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