Ivy League Eastern Intercollegiate Baseball League; they were later joined by Harvard, Brown, Army and Navy. Before the formal establishment of the Ivy League, there was an "unwritten and unspoken agreement among certain Eastern colleges on athletic relations". The earliest reference to the "Ivy colleges" came in 1933, when Stanley Woodward of the New York Herald Tribune used it to refer to the eight current members plus Army. In 1935, the Associated Press reported on an example of collaboration between the schools: Despite such collaboration, the universities did not seem to consider the formation of the league as imminent. Romeyn Berry, Cornell's
Ivy League Women's Basketball Tournament set. (This difference is because unlike the men's NIT, the WNIT is neither owned nor operated by the NCAA.) Prior to the formal tournament, the Ivy League used a one-game playoff if necessary to break ties eight times with two teams, and in 2001-02, a three-team tournament, in order to settle the conference championship. Since 1974, the Ivy League has had regular season titles for women's basketball. Ivy League Women's Basketball Tournament The Ivy League Women's Basketball Tournament is the conference tournament in basketball for the Ivy League. As with the men's Ivy League tournament, it is a single-elimination tournament