Long and Winding Road: Four Ivy League Members Still Have Losing Marks

Amid coronavirus pandemic, the Ivy League cancelled its season. 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 last year.

Baylor's boffo 26-4 record last season enabled the Bears to reach the .500 mark in its history (all-time record of 1,377-1,377). Northwestern (.418) and Ole Miss (.499) are the only power-conference members posting all-time losing standards. Potential HBCU trend-setter Makur Maker will need 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. Alas, Queens (N.Y.) failed to get the memo in battering the Bison day after Thanksgiving. VMI has assembled the most repulsive winning percentage (.368) among the following current NCAA Division I schools in the subterranean category after competing in basketball for more than 100 mainly futility-laced seasons: