Jackson Browne wrote:
I pick Yale. They look better this year than they have in the past, and gave Princeton a run a few weeks ago. Should contend in the Northeast, which sent six teams last year.
The Northast sending 6 teams was a fluke. Harvard was amazingly good early in the year with Leakos and korolev and very mediocre late in the year (30th). They probably didn't 'deserve' to go late in the year but they had so many points they poushed Dartmouth in (note, i know they clearly deserved to go as they had the points but they weren't a great team without leakos).
Most years, you are looking at 3-4 teams from the region.
When I was coaching in the Ivy League, I think the Ivy winner went to NCAAs less than half the time.
I started in 2002. From 2002 to through 2009- a grand total of 1 Ivy teams made NCAAs (Dartmouth 05).
Here are the all time NCAA team performances by Ivy schools
Brown (1963-87-92-96)
Columbia (2011-12-13).
Cornell (1957-70-71-77-92)
Dartmouth (1975-76-80-83-86-87-88-89-91-93-94-95-98-99-2000-01-05-13)
Harvard (1964-68-69-70-76-78-79-13)
Penn (1969-70-71-75)
Princeton - Princeton (1969-71-72-75-76-80-81-97-98-99-2010-11-12-13)
Yale - never
Now the last few years, there have been more teams. Princeton figured things out and got on a roll. 2 in 1011, 2 in 2012, and 4 last year.
With other schools getting more and more expensive and with the ivies financial aid getting more and more generous, are the ivies becoming even more attractive than they used to be?
Perhaps.
But this year is a regarded by most as a down year as compared to last year. The winner has a good shot of making but anything more than 2 teams is a total shocker.
Next year, nearly everyone comes back. Next year will be maybe a multibid year.