The Ivy League Baseball Standings for the 2020 Season

Check out the current Ivy League Baseball standings and see how your favorite team is doing.

The Ivy League

The Ivy League is an American collegiate athletic conference comprising eight private research universities in the Northeastern United States The term Ivy League is typically used beyond the sports context to refer to the eight schools as a group of elite colleges with connotations of academic excellence, selectivity in admissions, and social elitism.

The conference name is also commonly used to refer to those eight schools as a group of institutions of higher education with a longstanding tradition of academic excellence. The term Ivy League has been used to describe college baseball teams since 1932, when Northeastern newspapers ran a series of articles on the subject.1

The Ancient Eight began play in the 2020 season and will be joined by two new members, Northeastern and Hofstra.2

The members of the Ivy League are:
-Brown University (Providence, RI)
--Columbia University (New York, NY)
--Cornell University (Ithaca, NY)
-Dartmouth College (Hanover, NH)
--Harvard University (Cambridge, MA)
--University Of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA)
-Princeton University (Princeton, NJ)
-Yale University (New Haven, CT)

The 2020 Season

The 2020 Ivy League baseball season will be the 125th season of Collegiate Baseball play for the eight Ivy League schools. The regular season began on March 7, 2020, and will end on May 16, 2020.

Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Ivy League cancelled the remainder of their winter and Spring Sports seasons on March 10, 2020, effectively ending the baseball season

The defending champions were the Princeton Tigers who won their eleventh conference title

The Standings

The standings for the Ivy League Baseball season are as follows:

Princeton – 6-0
Penn – 4-2
Brown – 3-3
Harvard – 3-3
Yale – 2-4
Columbia – 1-5
Dartmouth – 0-6

The Teams

The Ivy League Baseball Standings for the 2020 Season are as follows:

Princeton – 0.667
Dartmouth – 0.571
Columbia – 0.500
Cornell – 0.500
Brown – 0.429
Penn – 0.429
Harvard – 0.143

The Players

As the 2020 season comes to an end, let’s take a look at how the teams in the Ivy League fared. The following is a list of the players on each team, their batting average home runs and RBIs.

Dartmouth Big Green
-Kevin Sandri .333 3 27
-Sean Sullivan .295 5 20
-Jake Suddleson .273 2 18

Harvard Crimson
-Ben Skinner .289 4 21
-Josh Ellis .275 3 19
-Matt Hodgson .270 5 17

Brown Bears
-Will Tominson .282 2 25
-Gareth Wyncoll .267 1 22
-Sam Grigo .262 4 20

Yale Bulldogs
-Andrew Dooley .326 6 28
-Joe Mazza .314 7 26
-Myles Sills .293 3 24

The Coaches

The following is a list of the head Baseball Coaches for the eight Ivy League institutions who will be participating in the 2020 season. The list includes the coach’s name, alma mater, year they began coaching at their current school, and their career record at that school.

-Bill Decker, Brown University (2002): 632-433-3
– Dave Esquer, Stanford University (2000): 496-324-8
– John Stuper, Yale University (1985): 973-636-5
– Scott Bradley Columbia University (2006): 492-433-3
– Joe Estes, Dartmouth College (1997): 650-491-2
– Casey Cohagan, Cornell University (2013): 236-194
Jared Shulman, Penn State University (2012): 256=210=1
Murphy Fewell, Princeton University (2014): 210-261

The Fans

The most important thing to know about the Ivy League Baseball standings for the 2020 season is that the fans are the most important part of it.

There are a lot of passionate college baseball fans out there and they are the ones that make the season what it is.

They are the ones that drive up ticket sales fill stadiums and create an atmosphere that is unmatched anywhere else in college baseball

So, if you’re a fan of Ivy League Baseball make sure you keep up with the standings and show your support for your team.

The Media

As the 2020 baseball season approaches, fans and media analysts alike are beginning to speculate which teams will make it to the playoffs. In the American League there are a few clear favourites: the New York Yankees the Houston Astros and the Minnesota Twins But in the National League it’s anyone’s game. The Milwaukee Brewers the Chicago Cubs and the Los Angeles Dodgers all have strong rosters and could easily end up in first place.

The Future

There is a lot of potential for the 2020 season. We could see some significant changes in the standings from last year.

The Legacy

The Ivy League is a collegiate Athletic Conference comprising eight private research universities in the Northeastern United States The conference name is also commonly used to refer to those eight schools as a group. The eight members are Brown University, Columbia University, Cornell University, Dartmouth College, Harvard University the University of Pennsylvania, Princeton University, and Yale University. Ivy League schools are generally viewed as some of the most prestigious universities in the world.

The term Ivy League has connotations of academic excellence, selectivity in admissions, and social elitism. While the term was in use as early as 1933, it only became official after the formation of the NCAA Division I Athletic Conference in 1954. Seven of the eight schools were founded during the Colonial period; the exception is Cornell, which was established in 1865. Ivy League schools are represented in a number of collegiate championships in Multiple sports (men’s Ice Hockey and rowing [women’s rowing] being the only exceptions), and consistently perform well in collegiate football and basketball polls. They are also some of the oldest instructional institutions of higher learning in continuous operation in North America all but one (Columbia) having been founded before 1800 (Yale [1701], Harvard [1636], William & Mary [1693], Pennsylvania [1740], Brown [1764], Dartmouth [1769]).