If you've been wondering what happens if the women's basketball team winds up tied for first place in the Ivies at the season's end, the answer has arrived.
The Ivy League publicly announced its way of resolving ties yesterday: teams with identical Ivy records will enter a playoff at Lehigh University's Stabler Arena on Friday, March 5.
The women's team, which currently stands one game behind Princeton for first place, will face Brown and Yale at home this weekend before traveling to Harvard next Tuesday night. The Tigers play Cornell and Columbia on the road and then return home to compete against Penn next a week from today.
It is unlikely that any other team can make a run at the title, so the Tigers and Green's actions in the next week will determine the Ivy winner or set up a playoff.
On the men's side, Dartmouth still has the mathematical possibility of forcing a playoff for the Ivy League, but would need Princeton and Penn to lose their next two games and then for Princeton to beat Penn in the season's final game next Tuesday. The Green would also have to win both games next weekend against Yale and Brown.
A more likely scenario for the men's title is a playoff game between the 10-1 Quakers and the 9-2 Tigers. The teams flip flop playing Columbia and Cornell at home this weekend before the much anticipated rematch of Princeton's 50-49 come-from-behind victory earlier this month.
Even if Princeton wins both head-to-head matchups with Penn, if the teams have the same Ivy record, Ivy League rules call for a playoff game.
Ivy basketball is coming down to the wire, and the Dartmouth women are right in the thick of the race.
