Re: Future Ivy Madness venues -- <h1>IVY LEAGUE SPORTS BOARD</h1>

[ Show ]

Support VoyForums

[ Shrink ]

VoyForums Announcement: Programming and providing support for this service has been a labor of love since 1997. We are one of the few services online who values our users' privacy, and have never sold your information. We have even fought hard to defend your privacy in legal cases; however, we've done it with almost no financial support -- paying out of pocket to continue providing the service. Due to the issues imposed on us by advertisers, we also stopped hosting most ads on the forums many years ago. We hope you appreciate our efforts.

Show your support by donating any amount. (Note: We are still technically a for-profit company, so your contribution is not tax-deductible.) PayPal Acct: Feedback:

Donate to VoyForums (PayPal):

[ Login ] [ Contact Forum Admin ] [ Main index ] [ Post a new message ] [ Search | Check update time | Archives: [1], 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 ]

Subject: Re: Future Ivy Madness venues

Author:
DeepBlue

[ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

Date Posted: 14:02:11 03/18/26 Wed
In reply to: Ivy Fan 's message, "Re: Future Ivy Madness venues" on 12:22:17 03/17/26 Tue

This solution assumes that there's a dedicated fanbase that would (potentially) travel to see their team play over the course of a week to places that weren't decided until relatively close to the tournament - I think you might end up with embarrassingly small crowds.

Maybe include all eight teams but make the bottom four play-in against each other for a chance to face the top four, and have it over three days in one predetermined place?

[ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

Replies:

[> [> [> Subject: Re: Future Ivy Madness venues

Author:
observer
[ Edit | View ]

Date Posted: 16:47:38 03/18/26 Wed

The real solution:

Package the finals for both m/w tourneys with another "midmajor" conference (Patriot/MAAC/Colonial/AmEast) for a championship quadrupleheader at a major venue in the northeast that doesn't have a college tourney (Comcast/Barclays/TD Garden) and have the higher seed host in all preliminary rounds.

You will get ESPN happy with knowing where to park the truck a year ahead of time. You can do advance ticket sales and draw from up to eight fan bases to fill more seats/sell more overall tix. You can split the costs with another conference, while only being on the hook for one day of arena rental. And you can give the higher seed a "home court" advantage in the preliminary rounds.

It actually makes too much sense for the league to consider.

[> [> [> [> Subject: Re: Future Ivy Madness venues
Author: voy vey [ Edit \| View ]	Date Posted: 09:03:52 03/19/26 Thu If only we could schedule a double round-robin tournament where every team plays every other team, once at home, once away, with the team achieving the best record being declared the champion. That would make the most sense by far. Oh....wait....

[> [> [> [> [> Subject: Re: Future Ivy Madness venues
Author: sparman [ Edit \| View ]	Date Posted: 09:59:07 03/19/26 Thu Are you some kind of seditious provacateur?

[> [> [> [> [> Subject: Re: Future Ivy Madness venues
Author: joiseyfan [ Edit \| View ]	Date Posted: 11:58:13 03/19/26 Thu Now, now, we all know vv is a cute little suboptimal provocateur….

[> [> [> [> [> Subject: Re: Future Ivy Madness venues

Author:
observer
[ Edit | View ]

Date Posted: 15:10:13 03/19/26 Thu

We've been through this over the years.

Not having a post-season tournament is great if you like empty arenas and dispirited fan bases by the middle of the season.

Those of us who realize that college sports IS entertainment, not just a fitness activity for the participants, welcome the fact that NCAA Division I sports are intended to be bread and circus. Otherwise why even participate in the main tournament, anyway? You know the Ivies have no shot to win, so the fair thing would be to let the 8th best power conference teams take the places of all the "mid" "majors"

If you only care about "deserving" participants, do you really think that the NEC and MEAC champs are "deserving" of the right to play for the NCAA Division 1 championship? Beating up on Stonehill and Sacred Heart isn't exactly the same as taking on UNC and Duke like Georgia Tech has to...

[> [> [> Subject: Re: Future Ivy Madness venues
Author: Ivy Fan [ Edit \| View ]	Date Posted: 08:51:23 03/20/26 Fri You are missing the point. If you hold the games on the home floor of the higher seeds, their fans (and students) will pack the gym. Who cares if the opposing teams fans don't want to travel? This is how you reward the teams that played well in the regular season by giving the higher seeds home court advantage.