On Thursday, the 15-seeded Princeton men’s basketball group pulled off a thrilling upset more than No. two Arizona.
The Tigers, who will advance to the Round of 16 on Saturday, are the only group in the men’s tournament without having athletic scholarships. Ivy League schools ban athletic scholarships and provide athletes only “have to have-primarily based” monetary help.
As if March could not get angrier, just two weeks ago two basketball players filed a lawsuit against Ivy League schools more than the policy.
- The lawsuit, which seeks class certification, was filed by existing Brown women’s basketball player Grace Kirk and former player Tamenang Choh.
- The players argued in the complaint that the policy violates the Sherman Antitrust Act by illegally fixing the costs of athletes’ athletic competitors.
- Whilst the suit confirms that the players acquire monetary help, it typically does not cover the price of attendance — which an athletic scholarship may possibly.
“The Ivy League agreement, in quick, impeded competitors that would have decreased and decreased the net price of attendance,” the complaint states. “These injuries are especially unfair offered what is expected of Ivy League athletes and how their solutions advantage their schools and the Ivy League brand.”
The complaint also relates to two other current college sports antitrust situations, O’Bannon v. NCAA and NCAA v. Alston — each of which located particular NCAA compensation caps illegal.
“The Ivy League athletic model is constructed on the basic principle that student-athletes ought to be representative of the bigger student physique, such as the capacity to acquire have to have-primarily based monetary help,” the Ivy League stated in a statement.