Princeton, Yale Named Co-Ivy League Champs, Set for NCAA Berth Playoff

  0 Wendy Mayer | November 12th, 2017 | College - Women's Indoor, Division I Mid-Major, News

Coming into Saturday, the final day of the Ivy League regular season, Princeton needed a road win over Dartmouth to secure sole possession of the conference title and the league’s automatic berth to the NCAAs.

As fate would have it, Dartmouth came through with a 25-19, 25-23, 16-25, 16-25, 15-11 victory, dropping the Tigers to 10-4 in Ivy League action. Princeton was still guaranteed a share of the conference crown, its third straight.

Enter Yale, which was just one match behind at 9-4 with a Saturday match at Columbia on the slate. The Bulldogs squeaked by with a 25-17, 28-30, 31-33, 25-19, 15-8 victory to clinch a share of the Ivy League title, its sixth in the last eight seasons and first since 2014.

Due to the fact that the Ivy League does not host a conference tournament, a one-match playoff will be played to determine the automatic berth to the NCAA Tournament.

The match is slated for next weekend in New Haven. Yale earned the right to host the playoff by virtue of winning four of the seven sets played between the team this season. The date of time of the playoffs are still to be determined.

 

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Wendy Mayer

Wendy Mayer has worked in athletics media relations for the last 20 years. The Northwest Missouri State alumna is currently senior writer for Volleymob.com after spending the last 15 years with Purdue athletics.

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