Posted on 04/01/2025 7:20:16 PM PDT by xxqqzz
In a stunning press conference on Sunday, March 30, Vice President of Student Athlete Relations Chad Rockeley-DuPont announced that Hopkins is set to join the Ivy League conference for the 2026–2027 academic year, replacing Dartmouth College. Hopkins will remain a part of the Centennial Conference until the end of this academic term and will play the 2025–2026 season as an independent team before making the transition into the Ivy League.
This announcement comes after years of Hopkins making mincemeat out of Division III (D-III) competition while moving up the U.S. News and World Report’s academic rankings. While it is currently unclear whether this decision was made for athletic or academic reasons, either is defensible.
In an email to The News-Letter following the press conference, Deputy Spokesperson of the Ivy League Sylvester Spoons expressed her excitement on behalf of the universities.
“We are delighted that John Hopkins is bringing its academic talent and athletic prowess to the Ivy League,” she wrote, misspelling the University’s name.
Spoons did not address Dartmouth’s unexpected exit from the conference after nearly 70 years. The News-Letter reached out to Dartmouth’s athletic program regarding the situation but did not receive a response at the time of publication.
Hopkins is highly regarded academically, as it is currently ranked as the #6 best school in the country according to U.S. News and World Report. This puts them above the majority of the Ivy League, only trailing the holy trinity: Princeton University, Harvard University and Yale University.
However, Spoons did comment on changes that Ivy League members expect from Hopkins as the University takes on this new venture.
(Excerpt) Read more at jhunewsletter.com ...
Dartmouth, over the objections of its mathematics faculty, is leaving the Ivy League to become the 19th member of the Big Ten.
>> joke
thus the absence of Johns...
it’s the 2nd for me, and I’m still getting snagged in this Fool’s Day BS — ergo, the latent foolery — feck
Got me, too. I forgot to read the headline, and had too much regard for JHU.
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