Response to the WSJ Article

Charles Star writes a good response to the Wall St. Journal article. It's worth reading in its entirety but here are some excerpts:

eLynah forum post

The real failing of the article was in describing the Ivy League's place in non-football sports. First, by overstating the past success of the basketball teams and second by understating the success in the rest of the programs.

I don't even know what to say about the lamentations about the title drought in hockey. The Ivies put three teams into the tournament this year and have gotten multiple bids fairly often in the recent past. The Ivies have only one Final Four team over the arbitrary period chosen but Cornell has been in the Elite Eight 5 times since 2000, and was an overtime goal away from getting the final four in both 2005 and 2006. In addition, an Ivy League team played in the women's championship every year between 2002 and 2005.