If North Carolina goes 11-15, it's a shock. If Brown goes 11-15, it's a miracle.

With that in mind, here's a quick run-down of the final Ivy League standings:

* Pennsylvania (14-0 Ivy, 22-4 overall)--Best of the Best III. Then again, Best of the Best II is terrible. Come to think of it, the original Best of the Best is a bout as good as the six-week old Zesty Broccoli Tofu Stir-Fry HDS dishes up every now and then. Hmm.

* Columbia (10-4, 16-10)--Who died and left them in second? Wow...

* Cornell (9.5, 16-10)--The surprising Big Red has been carried to the bronze medal by a freshman named Pax White-head Pax? Pax? What kind of a name is Pax? Pax this, pal...

* Princeton (7-7, 15-11)--Carril tore into the local New Jersey media for expecting too much of his team at the beginning of the season. "An Ivy title?" he queried. "Does anyone know just how good Penn is?

Well Penn's pretty good. But from 12-2 to 7-7? No one was expecting that. Hell. The Crimson's basketball writers picked the Tigers to win it all. Ouch.

* Yale (6-8, 10-16)--Four wins in the last five games makes a pretty respectable season.

* Dartmouth (5-9, 11-15)--A lot of good Duke transfer Crawford Palmer did these guys, Back top the beer, fellas.

* Harvard (3-11, 6-20)--Well, hey, it tied last season's overall record. Cross your fingers and bride the admissions office.

* Brown (2-12, 7-19)-- the Tampa Bay Buccaneers of the Ancient Eight. A random group of MAC players could take this team. But that's about what was expected, anyway.

A Final Note

Senior center Arturo Llopis won the Ivy League's rebounding crown, with 8.4 boards per game. He's the third Crimson player in a row to win the rebounding crown (Ron Mitchell '92 won the last two).

Senior Matt McClain played for the first time since snapping his anterior cruciate ligament last year against Boston College. His five minutes against Cornell yielded three points. He'll be back next year.