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Princeton Fan
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Date Posted: 19:30:29 06/13/08 Fri
We went over this in the thread in which you and I debated whether it made more sense for the winner of the varsity eight race (Yale) or the overall points winner at the NCAA championship (Brown) to be designated "NCAA champion."
The "Ivy League champion" is always determined by the varsity eight race at Eastern sprints. If the winner is a non-Ivy team, then the next highest finishing Ivy team is the "Ivy League champion." Furthermore, the nine members of that specific crew, including the cox, are designated "First-Team All-Ivy."
The overall points winner at Easterns receives the Rowe Cup but is not called the meet champion. In dual meets, both the "winner" of the meet and the Cup being contested go to the winner of the varsity eight race, not the overal points winner. So the practice of the NCAA meet truly is an outlier.
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