Big Win for Men's B-Ball!!!

[Al DeFlorio]

[quote Robb][quote bandit1]Yep - the Ivy League wants you to use your 4 years of eligibility in the first 4 years after your initial matriculation date. Competing in your 5th year of "higher education" is (generally, exceptions can be petitioned) a no-no, regardless of whether you're registered as a grad or undergrad in your 5th year.[/quote]
Right.  But if you've used three years of eligibility at an Ivy, I think you could go to grad school at a non-Ivy and get your fourth year of eligibility, a la Matt Pollock wrestling this year at Hofstra.

[billhoward]

Sure, it's a hockey forum, but on this section why not start a new thread for each basketball game? Easier for the rest of us to follow.

[ugarte]

[quote billhoward]Sure, it's a hockey forum, but on this section why not start a new thread for each basketball game? Easier for the rest of us to follow.[/quote]Because we aren't even talking about basketball. I'll start a thread for the Yale game, though. Big, big game.

[ugarte]

[quote Al DeFlorio][quote Robb]Yep - the Ivy League wants you to use your 4 years of eligibility in the first 4 years after your initial matriculation date. Competing in your 5th year of "higher education" is (generally, exceptions can be petitioned) a no-no, regardless of whether you're registered as a grad or undergrad in your 5th year.[/quote]
Right.  But if you've used three years of eligibility at an Ivy, I think you could go to grad school at a non-Ivy and get your fourth year of eligibility, a la Matt Pollock wrestling this year at Hofstra.[/quote]Tyler Shovlin '05 did the same thing at UNC-Greensboro

[David Harding]

The rules change from time to time.  There have been a couple of Cornellians who competed as graduate students.  I remember Joe Holland '78 sitting out a year when he transferred to Cornell, then staying on for another year of football as a masters student.  Shortly after Holland's success, the Ivies passed a rule explictly prohibited graduate students from competing even if they had eligibility left under NCAA rules.  Almost 20 years later they relaxed the rule, and Tom Brownlie '98(?) took advantage of the change to play tennis while working on his masters degree.  http://www.news.cornell.edu/Chronicle/98/5.14.98/Brownlie.html  I don't know whether the rule has changed again or whether any other Cornellian has used it since then.

[Robb]

[quote Al DeFlorio]Right.  But if you've used three years of eligibility at an Ivy, I think you could go to grad school at a non-Ivy and get your fourth year of eligibility, a la Matt Pollock wrestling this year at Hofstra.[/quote]
That makes sense, since it is the Ivies that won't let you compete in the 5th year.  As long as you meet the criteria for the NCAA and your grad school, the Ivy rule wouldn't matter.

[Al DeFlorio]

[quote Robb]That makes sense, since it is the Ivies that won't let you compete in the 5th year.  As long as you meet the criteria for the NCAA and your grad school, the Ivy rule wouldn't matter.[/quote]
Another example I just noticed:  Yale's lacrosse face-off specialist last year (ranked 3rd in the nation), Dan Kallaugher, is in grad school at Loyola (Maryland) and will be using his fourth year of eligibility this spring.