Two big pieces of information leaked today. First of all, LIU Brooklyn has reinstated the four suspended basketball players and suspended each of them two games apiece according to a report from Zach Braziller.
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The Ivy League was pretty good last season, but 2011-12 is over. Three of the top teams will return fewer than half of their possession minutes after the tumultuous offseason at Harvard. The league’s talent has been pretty depleted. Just six players had over 15% possession minutes last season.
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Yesterday we looked at Lindy’s, the Athlon projections are a little lighter in substance, but also in general match up a bit better with the general consensus.
Columbia released its complete 2012-13 schedule today and while the Lions will play a number of solid mid-majors there’s a stunning lack of elite teams on the docket.
The Ivy League is losing a number of key players from last season, but one team that will return much of its rotation is Columbia. Still, like every team in the league in 2012-13 the Lions are going to be relying on some young talent in order to move up in the league standings.
Boston University is leaving America East for the Patriot League in July of 2013. That’s almost exactly a year from now and it’s going to make for one interesting final season. The biggest problem though is that it’s dragged America East right back into the conference realignment conversation. Is Stony Brook going to jump to the CAA now that BU is leaving? I don’t know, but my guess is that this move doesn’t actually change much. What it should do though is make America East very nervous.
I haven’t had much to say about the Ivy League’s ultimately doomed dalliance with the idea of having a conference tournament because on one hand I really like the purity of the round-robin format. On the other hand, I really enjoy postseason basketball. Elimination games are what makes the NCAA tournament so special and why championship week might be even more fun. (Or it may be the Jerome.) How much would adding a tournament really impact the Ivy League race? Let’s look at it somewhat scientifically.
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The Ivy League announced today a two-year extension to its contract with NBC Sports Network (formerly known as Versus, etc.). Even though it is an extension, this deal is big news, because it includes the opportunity for NBC Sports Network to televise men’s basketball and lacrosse games as well. This isn’t just football anymore. The basketball brethren are about to get a little more exposure. That’s great, but where does the league go from here? I’ve got a few questions.
Ed. Note: This is a guest post from the creator of Value Add, John Pudner. A big thanks to him for putting this together. You can watch him speak here.
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The Mid-Majority has been working towards a goal this season of 800 crowd sourced recaps. Today it hit that goal with this piece about Zack Rosen and Penn at Harvard. A lot of people (122 in fact) contributed recaps along the way. I put 15 stories up there from my travels around college basketball this season. If you’re interested in local hoops (and I assume you are) I’d also recommend the work of Gary Moore and Raymond Curren. Congrats to everyone who worked on the project. It’s great to have such a collection of stories from around the nation.
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