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Subject: [GG’s response goes here] NM Author: joiseyfan [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: 11:26:24 03/16/26 Mon In reply to: Ivy Inquisitior 's message, "Double Message" on 01:29:07 03/16/26 Mon NM [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

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[> Subject: Re: Double Message Author: joiseyfan [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 11:42:59 03/16/26 Mon When the Ivies became the only league without a tourney, this is exactly the view they were taking. BUT there was incessant bitching about not getting postseason exposure (as if anybody watches the Patriot tournament), and the drumbeat of “why are we the only ones?” got tiring, AND the lax tournament was a success — another topic — so the ILT was born, with the predictable results you enumerate. On the women’s side, ironically, a protracted 10-year recruiting and scheduling campaign by Banghart, Berube and their disciples has created the opening for multiple bids when all the dice fall correctly, but expecting them is not rational, especially when one team sweeps. All signs, especially with NIL, are that this opportunity won’t occur on the men’s side any time soon. The current excuse is that cutting the ILT would harm recruiting. Sure.

[> [> Subject: Re: Double Message Author: An Observer [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 12:02:26 03/16/26 Mon I'm against the ILT, for all the usual reasons, and always have been. It is illogical to conduct a 14-game double round robin -- a meaningful sample size to determine the best and supposedly most deserving team -- only to have the actual selection be based upon two games, the semi and final, where the omnipresent randomness of officiating and simple variance in shooting will often carry the day. Having said that, I also think that, if the players and the coaches want something, it's their prerogative to get it. They're smart enough to know that they run a 14-game gauntlet just for the chance to roll the dice in a two-game random number generator. Well, if they want it, they should get it. The fact that the players and coaches in other sports also want it is compelling. Cutting the ILT would harm recruiting? Puh-lease.

[> [> Subject: The PL tournament got exposure this year Author: Go Green [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 12:32:20 03/16/26 Mon Having two games decided on half court shots at the buzzer will do that. :)