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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The Ivy League is a sports category. There are hundreds of excellent colleges and universities in the U.S. It is a giant country.[/quote]

It’s clear that the Ivy League has grown in the popular imagination to be more than just a sports league. It’s become a sort of designation or a shorthand for prestigious, top universities. Laypeople are rarely sure of which schools actually constitute the Ivy League, except for Harvard and Yale. Most also assume Stanford is one. I’ve met college [b]basketball enthusiasts who thought Duke was an Ivy[/b], and I know college football fans who assumed Northwestern was an Ivy. It’s a colloquialism that’s anchored in a slightly different reality from what most people think.[/quote]

Any college basketball enthusiast would not only know that Duke was in the ACC, but would have thoughts on their likelihood of beating UNC that year and how many ACC schools might make the NCAA tourney. This is just dumb.[/quote]

You’d be surprised. Lots of people primarily think of Ivy League as an academic designation, even if they follow college sports. To be fair Ivy League, though it is D1, is on the fringe and no one really pays attention to their sports.[/quote]

NP but I would be very very surprised by a "college basketball enthusiast" who did not know Duke was an ACC team.  If they didn't know Notre Dame or BC was an ACC team, that would be another thing...

Also, basketball is the one sport where people do pay some attention to the Ivies because they still get an automatic bid to the NCAAs and it's usually at least an interesting game[/quote]

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