May Madness arrives a day early Saturday.
All eyes will be on three Ivy League men’s lacrosse games that will determine the conference tournament field and continue to shape an NCAA tournament picture with no shortage of Ivies in the mix.
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No. 14 Cornell at No. 5 Princeton – 12 p.m. ET (ESPN+)
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Dartmouth at No. 10 Brown – 1 p.m. ET (ESPN+)
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No. 15 Harvard at No. 7 Yale – 2 p.m. ET (ESPNU)
All five nationally ranked Ivy League teams are 3-2 in the conference. No. 11 Penn, which wraps up its regular season with a nonconference game at Albany, finished 3-3 in league play.
Here are eight scenarios (accounting for tiebreakers) that could play out for the Ivy League tournament, which will be played at the top seed May 6-8 with all three games on ESPNU.
SCENARIO 1 (BYP)Brown beats Dartmouth (1) Princeton vs. (4) Penn |
SCENARIO 2 (BYC)Brown beats Dartmouth (1) Brown vs. (4) Harvard |
SCENARIO 3 (BHP)Brown beats Dartmouth (1) Harvard vs. (4) Penn |
SCENARIO 4 (BHC)Brown beats Dartmouth (1) Cornell vs. (4) Yale |
SCENARIO 5 (DYP)Dartmouth beats Brown (1) Yale vs. (4) Penn |
SCENARIO 6 (DYC)Dartmouth beats Brown (1) Cornell vs. (4) Princeton |
SCENARIO 7 (DHP)Dartmouth beats Brown (1) Harvard vs. (4) Penn |
SCENARIO 8 (DHC)Dartmouth beats Brown (1) Cornell vs. (4) Yale |