Wait a second, only two non-P’s have won outright Ivy titles since the first airing of “Mork and Mindy” and the best explanation for that trend is that Penn and Princeton “try harder?”

That’s madness.

The Ancient Eight is the only conference in basketball where a team’s season can be over after the second week of league play.  

That’s madness. And one way to fix it is to level the playing field and make March meaningful for more than just two teams by instituting a conference tourney.

However, this isn’t meant to take anything away from our regular season Ivy champion Princeton Tigers, who put up a sporting effort before “fading into Bolivian” down the stretch, falling to the South Region’s third-seed Texas. (I flat out refuse to refer to the brackets by regional sites, unless they’re humorous to say. On my short list would be Hygiene, Colo., Dry Prong, La. and Pysht, Wash.)  

If there’s one thing that I’m reminded about from watching March Madness wire-to-wire, it’s that the fundamental driving force behind the tourney is money.

On that note, there’s a commercial on TV. Former wrestler and current IOP great Jesse Ventura is speaking to me. He wants me to be “fiscally responsible” and use Infone.

Madness.

—Staff Writer Michael R. James can be reached at mrjames@fas.harvard.edu. His column, the King James Bible, appears every Friday.