Penn wins Ivy League title, NCAA Tournament bid

Penn’s 57-55 victory at Yale combined with Brown’s 61-46 upset of Princeton gave the Quakers the 2005-06 Ivy League title and the accompanying automatic bid. If Yale and Cornell win tonight and Penn wins the regular season finale at Jadwin on Tuesday, there would be three-way tie for second place with Cornell, Princeton, and Yale all at 8-6. The championship is Penn’s second consecutive and the school’s sixth in the last eight seasons. Fran Dunphy now has 10 Ivy titles and nine NCAA Tournament appearances in 17 seasons at the helm of the program.

Slant: The Quakers can expect to earn an NCAA Tournament seed in the 14 range and there are currently eight conferences with no chance of having their champion naturally seeded ahead of them. Six other conferences have just one team with a chance of being seeded ahead of Penn naturally, and another three have just two teams. So a 13 seed is possible if Penn wins out and gets some help in the form of key conference tournament upsets. However, the Quakers also could end up with a 15 seed if they stumble in their two remaining games at Brown and Princeton, so there’s plenty of incentive for Dunphy to play his regular rotation.

Jake Wilson

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