When writing a preseason preview, experience repeatedly comes up as a factor in projecting how a team will perform in the season ahead. Lazy scribes tend to glance at a roster and count up the juniors and seniors when evaluating a team’s experience level. While upperclassmen theoretically are more mature and refined from years spent in the program, there’s just no substitute for actual game experience. So how do the Ivy teams stack up in terms of career minutes played?

Here are the rankings of the eight teams by combined career Division I minutes, with players not medically cleared to play this season excluded:

1. Columbia 11,095 minutes
2. Yale 8,746
3. Brown 8,294
4. Princeton 7,829
5. Dartmouth 6,247
6. Cornell 5,239
7. Harvard 4,769
8. Penn 3,518

It’s no surprise to see senior-led Columbia and Yale teams atop the list, and Brown makes sense in third with three senior starters. However, Princeton and Dartmouth are a bit higher than one might expect, given the two programs’ placement near the bottom of most preseason predictions. Meanwhile, Tommy Amaker inherits a very green roster as he looks to remake Harvard in his image. The truly bad news for the rest of the league is that two programs — Cornell and Penn — considered title contenders this year are expected to do so despite very inexperienced rosters.