Ejike Adele
John Ballowe
Kyle Brown
Danny Cronin
Carson Franks
Alex Geraci
Jackson Gerard
Josiah Green
Micah Green
Sean Harmon
Tristan Holmbeck
Q Jones
Nick Marinaro
Braden Mullen
Jackson Namian
Jackson Proctor
Painter Richards-Baker
Paxton Scott
Konstantin Spörk
All told, the Ivy League had 107 players recognized, with Harvard’s 22 leading the way. Nationally, there were 2,532 players from 339 schools who were honored in the NCAA, NAIA and Sprint divisions.
Find the full list of players chosen HERE, and the NFF release HERE.
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Time will tell what the Ivy League will do, but per an NCAA rules release yesterday:
"Coach-to-player communication, similar to technology implemented for the Football Bowl Subdivision last year, will be a permissive option for teams that compete in the Football Championship Subdivision."
And . . .
"The NCAA Playing Rules Oversight Panel on Wednesday approved modifications to the injury timeout rules in football, beginning with the 2025-26 season.
"Under the new rule, if medical personnel enter the field to evaluate an injured player after the ball is spotted by the officiating crew for the next play, that player's team will be charged a timeout.
"If the team does not have any timeouts remaining, a 5-yard delay-of-game penalty will be assessed."
For the full list of rules changes approved for next fall, click HERE.
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Princeton basketball’s Xavian Lee, the exciting guard who has been a first-team All-Ivy League selection the past two seasons, announced he’ll use his final year of eligibility playing for reigning national champion Florida. (LINK)
Lee is following in the footsteps of Danny Wolf, the 7-footer who transferred from Yale to Michigan after two seasons in New Haven. Wolf tied for the Big 10 lead with 15 double-doubles this winter, and has declared for the NBA Draft after finishing his junior season. He’s considered a possible first-round selection. (LINK)
Malik Mack, who earned Ivy League Rookie of the Year as a Harvard guard, transferred last year to Georgetown, where he started all 32 games as a sophomore. He led the Hoyas this season in assists and 3-pointers, and was second in scoring.
Green Alert Take: Rare is the Ivy League football player who enters the transfer portal as an undergrad. But given Mack, Wolf and now Lee walking away from HYP basketball, is there a chance we are going to see more football players go that route? Perhaps.
Green Alert Take II: You can be sure a lot of attention will be paid to how the 2025 season goes for running back Malachi Hosley, the 2023 Ivy League rookie of the year and the Bushnell Cup recipient as the Ivy League’s offensive player of the year at Penn last fall. He transferred after his sophomore season to Georgia Tech.
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EXTRA POINT
Our treasured 1984 VW Westfalia poptop camper came out of storage in our garage a few weeks back. Given that winter hasn’t released its hold on us, we haven’t taken it on the road yet. And because it hasn’t even left driveway, the alternator hasn’t had a chance to charge the battery, and I’ve had to use a battery pack to start it up. With the weather a little better, the hope is to get the old bus started today, drive it for an hour or so, and see if the battery does charge up. If so, we’re good to go. If not, we may have bigger issues, and it could mean another trip north to visit our Vanagon whisperer.
And yes – sitting in the window perhaps hoping to hit the road – that's a pretty accurate model of our VW poptop bus that I put together a few years back. ;-)
