Last year's Ivy League champion, Dartmouth, had to overcome a one-game deficit on the final night of the regular season and win a one-game playoff before earning the right to be blown out of the NCAA tournament by Rutgers. The Big Green returns just two starters.
Princeton, the team Dartmouth beat, once again failed to secure its first Ivy title since 1985. The Tigers have two All-Ivy players returning, but not much else.
Penn, a sub-.500 team last season, has a rookie head coach.
So how do you pick a pre-season favorite from among these teams?
Well, really, you can't.
Any one of these teams, including the resurgent Harvard Crimson, could walk away with the title and a trip to the NCAA tournament this spring.
But somebody has to be dubbed No. 1, and in a pre-season media poll, this year's honor goes to Penn.
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