The regular season is in the books, and the final week saw a big shakeup of the bottom six. Here are your final Power Rankings of the 2005-06 season.
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| 1. | Penn (20-8, 12-2 Ivy) | 1 | The gimpy Quakers ended the season with a thud at Jadwin with a loss that may haunt them on Selection Sunday. Against its arch rival, Penn dug itself a huge hole with an ugly 12-point first half that has to rank as one of the worst in modern school history. |
| 2. | Princeton (12-15, 10-4 Ivy) | 2 | Princeton blew an 18-point second-half lead against Penn for the second straight season, but this time the Tigers rallied in overtime to salvage the win. Now Joe Scott’s program goes into next season on a very positive note instead of going 4-4 down the stretch. |
| 3. | Brown (10-17, 6-8 Ivy) | 6 | Things looked pretty bleak for the Bears after the ugly loss at Jadwin a month ago, but Glen Miller really turned things around. Brown won four of its next six games, including a dominating 15-point win over second-place Princeton the final weekend. |
| 4. | Cornell (13-15, 8-6 Ivy) | 4 | The Big Red closed the season with a weekend sweep that gave it three wins in the final four games and sole possession of third place at 8-6. Final-second heroics by Dragutin Kravic and Scott Greenman were the only things keeping Cornell out of second place. |
| 5. | Yale (15-14, 7-7 Ivy) | 3 | The Bulldogs rallied to take Penn down to the wire on Friday, but saw their second-place hopes go up in smoke with a poor performance against Princeton on Saturday. The result of the first Ivy home losses of the season was Yale’s third-straight .500 Ivy campaign. |
| 6. | Dartmouth (6-21, 4-10 Ivy) | 7 | Friday’s win over Columbia ensured that Dartmouth wouldn’t finish eighth in the league this year. After a 1-7 Ivy start, the Big Green split their final six games — and could have easily been 4-2 if not for the late blown lead at Princeton the previous weekend. |
| 7. | Harvard (13-14, 5-9 Ivy) | 8 | The Harvard locker room was highly emotional after Saturday’s Senior Night victory over Columbia snapped an eight-game losing streak and sent Matt Stehle out a winner. Now we’ll find out just how damaging the collapse was to Frank Sullivan’s job security. |
| 8. | Columbia (11-16, 4-10 Ivy) | 5 | It’s a story of what might have been for the Lions, who had a chance to finish .500 after winning three straight. But Columbia couldn’t maintain its momentum, losing its final three to finish in last place for the second-straight season and third time in four years. |
