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Subject: Re: Continuation of the Lacrosse, Men's versus Women's Basketball Tournament Subthread


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Date Posted: 07:38:56 03/20/25 Thu
In reply to: SpuytenDuyvil76 's message, "Re: Continuation of the Lacrosse, Men's versus Women's Basketball Tournament Subthread" on 13:00:55 03/18/25 Tue
 But to An Observer's point, there are also cultural factors at play here, too.

Given the fact that a potential pro career in women's basketball doesn't have the same lottery potential as the NBA, the fallback of an Ivy education is a much bigger carrot to talented women's basketball players who benefit from the Ivy finaid wars. Plus the redshirt/transfer portal/grad option is available for those who want it, see Kaitlyns Davis and Chen.

There were 2 Ivies drafted by the WNBA last year (Hsu, Davis), and one more probably this year (Turner), if not 2 (Chen).

While Miye Oni made a sort of history being drafted in 2019, the last NBA Ivy draftee before him was Jerome Allen in 1995.

Without serious NIL, Ivy Men's Basketball will continue to fall backwards relative to the rest of NCAA Division 1. But then again, we are probably looking at 1980 all over again. Enjoy the NCAA D1 Tournament this year and next... when the CBS/Turner rights expire, don't be surprised if the next version of the college basketball postseason doesn't feature AQs from all "Division I" schools.

Get ready for the "College Basketball Playoffs." It's coming.
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