Ivy ADs decide against postseason basketball tournament

We learned last month that the Ivy League basketball coaches were proposing the league develop a postseason tournament instead of having the regular season winner represent the conference in the NCAA tournament.

It's an interesting idea that would fundamentally change the league. I didn't like it. Neither did Penn Athletic Director Steve Bilsky. Neither did Eamonn Brennan from ESPN.

Today, after the Ivy League's spring meetings concluded, the league office released this statement that the proposals had been denied by the athletic directors:

RED BANK, N.J. -- The Ivy League announced today that its directors of athletics have decided not to move forward with proposals for postseason tournaments in men's and women's basketball.
"After careful consideration of these proposals, the athletics directors decided that our current method of determining the Ivy League Champion and our automatic bid recipient to the NCAA Championship is the best model moving forward," saidRobin Harris, Ivy League Executive Director.

In men's and women's basketball, the Ivy League plays a 14-game, double round-robin schedule where each team plays each other home and away. The team with the best conference record in each sport is awarded the Ivy title and the League's NCAA Tournament automatic bid.

The Ivy League athletics directors discussed the proposals at their annual meetings, which concluded Thursday afternoon in Red Bank, N.J.