On Thursday, 15-seed Princeton guys pulled out a thrilling upset additional than No. two Arizona.
The Tigers, who will advance to the Round of 32 on Saturday, are the only group in the men’s tournament with no any players on athletic scholarship. Ivy League schools prohibit sports scholarships and only present athletes “need-based” monetary assist.
As if March couldn’t get any madder, two basketball players filed a lawsuit against Ivy League schools additional than this policy just two weeks ago.
- The lawsuit, which is searching for class certification, was filed by present Brown women’s basketball player Grace Kirk and former men’s player Tamenang Choh.
- The players argued in a complaint that the policy violates the Sherman Antitrust Act by illegally value tag-fixing the worth of athletes’ athletic competitors.
- Even though the suit acknowledges that players get monetary assist, it regularly does not cover the expense of attendance — which an athletic scholarship may well.
“The Ivy League Agreement, in swift, has stymied competitors that would have lowered, and would decreased, the net expense of attendance,” the complaint study. “These injuries are particularly unfair supplied what is anticipated of Ivy League Athletes and how their options benefit their schools and the Ivy League brand.”
The complaint also referenced two other present antitrust circumstances connected to college sports, O’Bannon v. NCAA and NCAA v. Alston — which every single identified that precise compensation restrictions in the NCAA have been illegal.
“The Ivy League athletics model is constructed upon the foundational principle that student-athletes ought to be representative of the wider student physique, which incorporates the likelihood to get have to have-mainly primarily based monetary assist,” the Ivy League stated in a statement.