Long and Winding Road: Half of Ivy League Members Have Losing Records

Amid coronavirus pandemic, the Ivy League cancelled its season last year. Cynics might suggest the majority of Ivy members haven't really been "playing" for about a century. Yale (23-7 in 2019-20) was among five Ivy League members saddled with all-time losing record for decades before finally going over the career .500 threshold two years ago.

Baylor's boffo records the past two seasons enabled the Bears to surpass the .500 mark in its history. Northwestern (.416) and Texas Christian (.467) are the only power-conference members posting all-time losing standards. Potential HBCU trend-setter Makur Maker didn't hang around very long, but he would have required eight years of eligibility and divine intervention creating all undefeated seasons during that extended span to enable Howard University to get back to the .500 level. VMI has assembled the most repulsive winning percentage (.370) among the following current NCAA Division I schools in the subterranean category after competing in basketball for more than 100 mainly futility-laced seasons: