Beginning with the 2020-21 season, the Ivy League men’s and women’s basketball conference slate will take on a new form.“Understanding that scheduling is always a challenge with competing interests, this new format accomplishes two of our chief priorities: to create a structure that is fair and equitable over time and continues to minimize the impact on missed class time for our student-athletes,” Ivy League Executive Directorsaid.“The format decompresses the schedule with two additional weeks of conference play and enables our teams the opportunity to compete at the highest level both in the classroom and on the court.”The decision follows a year-long process with key constituents throughout the league including coaches, administrators and student-athletes.The opportunity to reexamine and modify the structure of the schedule coincides with the change in Princeton’s academic calendar with fall semester exams moving from January to December, beginning with the 2020-21 academic year.In total, the schedule will consist of six one-opponent weekends and three of the league’s signature Friday and Saturday back-to-back weekends. Each team will also have a contest on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.The schedule format has been approved for the 2020-21 and 2021-22 season.Week 1 – one gameWeek 2 – two games (back-to-back)Week 3 – two games (Saturday and MLK Day)Week 4 – one gameWeek 5 – one gameWeek 6 – two games (back-to-back)Week 7 – one gameWeek 8 – two games (back-to-back)Week 9 – one gameWeek 10 – one game (vs. travel partner)

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The Ivy League stands at the pinnacle of higher education and Division I athletics, rooted in the longstanding, defining principle that intercollegiate athletics competition should be "kept in harmony with the essential educational purposes of the institution." Unrivaled in its legacy, The Ivy League provides the true test of academic and co-curricular rigor - fostering an enduring culture that celebrates a storied-tradition, thrives on shared values and holds paramount the academic and personal growth of students.

Consistently ranked as the top academic conference and with more national championships than any other collegiate athletic conference (287 team, 546 individual), The Ivy League showcased 98 nationally-ranked programs in 2018-19 and prides itself on sponsoring 33 sports, the highest number of any NCAA conference, with more than 8,000 student-athletes competing annually. The League's world-renowned schools - Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Penn, Princeton and Yale - serve as the standard bearers for inspiring and transforming student-athletes to boldly take on the world's challenges and lead lives of great impact.

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