The further a university advances in the men’s NCAA basketball tournament, the more applications that institution tends to receive the subsequent year. Applicants to Duke University should thus never be rooting for the Blue Devils in March Madness the spring before they submit applications. With this in mind, and as …
The Ivy League has one automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament. Readers who haven’t been combing through our college admissions blog over morning coffee for many years might be wondering why we write about college basketball since our focus is on admissions, but loyal readers know the answer: March Madness …
Regular readers of our college admissions blog know that around this time every year, we write about March Madness. And why? Well, sure, we love college basketball but what our new readers may not realize is that March Madness has tremendous implications for various universities when it comes to admissions. …
As conference basketball tournaments are underway, we’d like to report on a change coming to Ivy League basketball in 2017. If you’re wondering why we report on Ivy League basketball when this is a college admissions blog, two things: (1) we write about all things Ivy League and (2) if …
We figured we’d check in on how the Ivy League men’s basketball teams are doing. Regular readers of our college admissions blog know that we check in from time to time with the football and basketball programs, since they’re surely important to the universities. Yes, more so than squash. Don’t …
It may not be March but Ivy League basketball teams are gearing up to play. And which Ivy League school is projected to win the league and earn its automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament? That would be the alma mater of former Nets and Knicks center (and Diabetes advocate) Chris …
An Ivy League basketball stunner! What a week in Ivy League basketball action. Dartmouth College, a team that hasn’t finished so much as .500 since the 1998-1999 season (that’s quite a long time!), upended the Ivy League basketball standings in stunning, last-second fashion by winning their fifth straight contest, this one …
The eight Ivy League colleges have begun the 2014-2015 men’s basketball season and while they haven’t faced each other yet, we figured we’d report on their progress to date. Several games into the non-conference part of the season, Harvard University boasts a 5-1 record. And they’ve won four straight games. …
We’ve got the Ivy League bball standings for you thus far into the 2013-2014 season. As of now, Harvard University has a 14-2 overall record and stands at 1-0 in Ivy League conference play. The University of Pennsylvania is 3-10 overall but also 1-0 in conference play. Princeton University sits …
Let’s check in on the Ivy League basketball standings. While league play hasn’t yet begun, all eight Ivy League universities have kicked off their 2012-2013 campaigns. In men’s basketball, Harvard University currently sits atop the league with a 7-5 record. At 6-5, Columbia University sits in second. Al other Ivy …
