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Pat Forde

Princeton’s Sweet 16 Appearance Is Your Atypical Cinderella Run

The Princeton Tigers are built all wrong to be here in this NCAA tournament Sweet 16.

Transfers? None. The portal tends to only flow one direction in the Ivy League: out. At Princeton, several of the players wouldn’t even leave when the Ivy League shut down its athletics for the 2020–’21 season due to the COVID-19 shutdown. While other leagues were straining to play through the pandemic, the eight Ivy institutions quickly announced they were putting sports on hold for an entire year.

Name, image and likeness opportunities? They do exist in a partnership with Opendorse, an NIL clearinghouse of sorts. (Offers for a video greeting from guard Ryan Langborg start at $51, if you’re interested.) But this isn’t exactly Oscar Tshiebwe raking in millions at Kentucky. Ivy League players don’t even get athletic scholarships, much less booster-funded Porsches.

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