Penn–Princeton basketball rivalry
Автор:
Jesse Russell,Ronald Cohn, 121 стр., издатель:
"Книга по Требованию", ISBN:
978-5-5143-4226-6
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Penn–Princeton basketball rivalry is a college basketball rivalry between Princeton University and the University of Pennsylvania and their respective men's basketball teams, Princeton Tigers and Penn Quakers. Having been contested every year since 1903, it is the third oldest consecutively played rivalry in National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I history. Unlike many notable college basketball rivalries, such as Carolina–Duke, which involves teams that often both get invited to the same NCAA tournaments, Notre Dame–UCLA, which involves geographically remote teams, Illinois–Missouri, which involves non-conference rivals, or Alabama–Auburn, which takes a back seat to the football rivalry, this is a rivalry of geographically close, conference rivals, who compete for a single NCAA invitation and consider the basketball rivalry more important than other sports rivalries between the schools. A head-to-head contest has been the...