Ivy League males’s and ladies’s basketball tournaments codecs draw ire: ‘Once once more this is senseless’

The Ivy League males’s and ladies’s basketball tournaments will decide which faculties get an computerized bid into their respective NCAA Tournaments later this month.

The Ivy League, historically, by no means had a postseason convention match till the format was modified in 2017. The convention didn’t have a match in 2020 or 2021 because of the coronavirus pandemic, however some expressed a problem with how the Ivy League has gone about its format.

The Pennsylvania Quakers girls’s basketball group contact the championship trophy after the win towards the Princeton Tigers within the Ivy League match last at The Palestra on March 12, 2017 in Philadelphia. (Corey Perrine/Getty Images)

The Ivy League Tournaments function the highest 4 faculties within the convention as a substitute of together with all eight groups which are within the convention. College basketball reporter Andy Katz was amongst these expressing his disbelief.

“Once once more this is senseless. The @IvyLeague ought to have all 8 males’s and ladies’s groups in its match or don’t have one. It’s yet one more day,” he wrote.

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Katz was not the one one.

On the boys’s facet, No. 1 Yale will tackle No. 4 Cornell and No. 2 Princeton will face off towards No. 3 Penn. Both video games will happen on Saturday and the title recreation shall be on Sunday.

The Pennsylvania Quakers girls’s basketball group take time for portraits by photographers and followers after the win towards the Princeton Tigers within the Ivy League match last at The Palestra on March 12, 2017 in Philadelphia (Corey Perrine/Getty Images)

Princeton Tigers followers cheer in the course of the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship first spherical recreation between  Princeton Tigers and Notre Dame Fighting Irish on March 16, 2017 on the Key Bank Center in Buffalo, New York. (Jerome Davis/Icon Sportswire through Getty Images)

On the ladies’s facet, No. 1 Princeton will face off towards No. 4 Penn and No. 2 Columbia will play No. 3 Harvard on Friday. The title recreation shall be on Saturday.

Yale received the boys’s match final 12 months. Princeton is the defending champion on the ladies’s facet.