NCAA: Harvard Beats Cincy 61-57 !!!

3/20/14 | self

[WilliamofCarmichael]

Headline: Cal Poly Mustangs 2014 NCAA champs!

There! Nobody wins the billion dollars and no one even won 100,000 dollars. Gee. How did that happen?

[Lmo56]

I could have sworn there must have been math problems that Cincinnati was struggling with.

The Cincy players thought that:

Area = πr round

[pieceofthepuzzle]

I think it's really hard for college players to deal with pressure. It's hard for anyone, but they aren't seasoned enough, and one and done is a pressure cooker - especially when you're ‘supposed’ to win. Not taking anything away from the Harvard players, but there's always more pressure on the higher seeded team.

I was very young at the time, but I remember DePaul (Chicago) finishing the season ranked number 1, and then losing in the first round of the tournament on more than one occasion.

[yield 2 the right]

Pitt-Florida it is. This game has lowered my hopes for a deep run for the Gators somewhat. Hope the team got the bad game/lackluster out of them enough to play better here on out.....

[Scoutmaster]

It’s their second NCAA Tournament victory ever. Lat year they had their first. Pretty amazing they’ve had so few considering they’ve been around so long.

Not so strange. The NCAA Tournament didn't start until until 1939, long after Harvard and Yale won so many football championships and had become irrelevant in major sports. Even then, only eight teams were in the tournament.

March Madness didn't jump to 32 games until 1975. Penn or Princeton has won the Ivy almost every year since then (yes, Cornell, you won about three).

Harvard's won three of the last four Ivies (and lost the fourth in a one-game playoff).

[be-baw]

Thanks. That explains a lot. Looks like Harvard gets to play MSU next. Buh bye Harvard.

[Lmo56]

A #1 has never lost in the first round, in the modern tournament era since the 1980’s ...

[nascarnation]

I was gonna sign up for that but Warren Buffet wanted so much personal info I finally blew it off. I’d be out anyway, LOL.

[HMS Surprise]

My eldest son attends Harvard, so this is not a surprise to me.

[EDINVA]

Another factor not listed above: Ivies don’t give athletic scholarships. Yes, their athletes are treated rather well and an applicant’s athletic ability might tip the scale in their favor on admissions, but no one is admitted with an athletic scholarship. At $50K/year that becomes significant.

[be-baw]

I did not know Ivies don’t offer athletic scholarships. Now it all makes sense. Thank you.

Imagine how good Harvard would have been had Obama been on the team back in the day. Kobe recently said he was good enough to play for the Lakers

[pieceofthepuzzle]

“A #1 has never lost in the first round, in the modern tournament era since the 1980’s ...”

You're right. I got it wrong. DePaul went out in the second round for three successive years (1980-82). I think they were ranked number one for most if not all of two of those seasons, and they had Mark Acquire and Terry Cummings.

[EDINVA]

I read that Kobe comment. Could barely stay on my chair vs rolling on the floor!