In the last day of baseball’s spring training, teams finalize the starting rotation before opening day.

Before the Masters, golfers practice their short game at Augusta National’s famous par-three course.

Before a wedding, you have a rehearsal dinner—but that’s basically so you don’t forget the names of your in-laws.

That’s where we are in the Ivy League. Welcome to tune-up week.

Sure, every team in the Ancient Eight has played some meaningful games so far.

But those games have been interspersed with other matchups against non-league opponents.

This week, teams will have a chance to work out the last few kinks in their game plans and solve any lingering concerns on the roster. Because from here on out, it’s all Ivy.

Harvard, Dartmouth, Cornell, and Yale take on opponents from outside the Ancient Eight.

The other four teams in the league are already finished with their non-league games.

Well, you may ask, how are these other two games not important? Surely they mean something.

The two league games: Princeton versus Brown and Penn versus Columbia.

Princeton and Columbia are basically out of it already. And for the Bears and the Quakers?

Like I said, it’s tune-up week.

Though the four non-league games don’t have direct implications for the title hunt, they should still tell us a lot about how these teams will fare for the rest of the season.

After a heart-breaker against Penn, Dartmouth looked poised to make a dark-horse run at the crown.