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Subject: Re: Future Ivy Madness venues

Author:
M3

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Date Posted: 15:29:22 03/16/26 Mon
In reply to: DeepBlue 's message, "Future Ivy Madness venues" on 12:46:42 03/16/26 Mon

Winning the regular season title in IL basketball doesn't mean that much

To get a NCAA bid you have simply qualified for a 2 game single elimination tournament

DeepBlue has made an excellent suggestion

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sparman
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Date Posted: 16:19:30 03/16/26 Mon

Rewarding a current team based on the prior year's performance does not do it for me. I thought the goal of granting home court is to reward a specific team for its performance, not to reward "one of the best teams". If Princeton were awarded a home court based in this approach while Penn had a higher finish, I doubt Penn fans would take solace because PU had been "one of the best" with Penn.

I can only imagine the complaints of unfairness if a team finshed 1st in one year, followed by 4th in the next but yet has home advantage to go to the NCAAs. Isn't this the same issue raised by arbitrarily rotating the tournament site that lead to so many complaints about the unfairness?

I don't see what is gained by using a prior year's performance.

However, if a home court approach is adopted for conference winners, I would be OK with the idea of rotating between women's and men's conference winners, and not just because certain teams would likely have an advantage.

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Author: DeepBlue [ Edit \| View ]	Date Posted: 22:35:29 03/16/26 Mon I feel like siting it based on the prior year’s performance is the least-bad option because the too-small audience would only be reduced further if the tournament venue were only announced a week ahead of time. I had more than a year to make travel arrangements and reconcile myself to shlepping up to Ithaca.