With a 2026 Ivy League Tournament in Ithaca that attracted less than 1,500 and 700 fans, to the men’s and women’s finals, respectively, it wasn’t a surprise when the conference decided to move the 2027 event from the farther reaches of Hanover back to Philadelphia’s historic Palestra.
On the other hand, the Sept. 15 announcement that Ivy Madness would relocate to the PPL Center in Allentown for the 2028-2030 editions did come as a bit of a shock.
With apologies to Harvard alum Colin Jost, my first thought was “I didn’t have that on my bingo card.”