Apologies for the IvySports Roundup being a day late this week, but [insert Swine Flu excuse/joke here].

This weekend in Ancient Eight athletics was a difficult one to determine a rank order for, as nearly every school did very well in some sports and very horribly in others. So the plan was to add extra emphasis to this weekend’s NFL Draft. The Draft is one of the few occasions when names of Ivy League athletes may be listed in proximity to names of athletes from Texas Tech and Oregon. Being drafted is about the greatest accomplishment an Ivy League football player can achieve outside of winning the conference title and earning the right to not play in the national tournament.

Alas for the second year in a row, no Ivy Leaguers were selected, thus denying Chris Berman a segue to remind everyone that he went to Brown. This sudden drought in the League’s production of marginal professional athletes is a depressing one, as the Ivies had produced five draft picks between 2004 and 2007. More upsetting is that in order to determine number 1 in this week’s IvySports rankings, we must go to a tiebreaker: the last school to have a player selected in the NFL Draft.

1. Brown

Holds bragging rights over: Cornell

While Linebacker Zak DeOssie’s selection in the 4th Round of the 2007 NFL Draft by the Giants gives Brown the number one spot this week, they had a pretty good April weekend in 2009 as well. In men’s lacrosse, the Bears shocked second-ranked Cornell 11-9 to ruin the Big Red’s hopes of an outright Ivy League title. The win also bumps Brown back into the NCAA Tournament discussion after their upset loss to Penn a few weeks ago. Senior goalie Jordan Burke of Yuppie, Maryland led the Bears with 18 saves and was named Ivy League Player of the Week. Brown now controls their own destiny in the battle for the Ivy League’s automatic bid, as a win at Princeton on Saturday will send the Bears to the tournament for the first time since 1997.

The other schools–plus more fun Ivy League/NFL Draft facts–after the jump.

2. Princeton

Holds bragging rights over: Harvard and Yale

This weekend was a major one for the Big Three, as H, Y, and P’s lightweight crew teams battled for the Bobcat Goldthwait Cup. This year’s battle for the Police Academy 2-4 Trophy was especially meaningful as Princeton, Harvard, and Yale were ranked 1st, 2nd, and 4th respectively, and the Tigers and Crimson were both undefeated. In the end, it was Princeton who won the contentious varsity eights race by 5 seconds ahead of the Crimson and 10 ahead of the Elis. The win certainly takes the sting out of going yet another year since the Tigers’ last NFL Draft pick in 2001 (Dennis Norman). And with women’s crew also finding success this weekend, it’s clear that Princeton professor Robert George was only trying to ensure good weather conditions for the Tigers’ races.

3. Dartmouth

Holds bragging rights over: Harvard

The Big Green-Crimson weekend softball series was one of the more exciting events on the weekend that went unnoticed because it’s women playing sports in the Ivy League. Nevertheless, there was major drama as Dartmouth entered the weekend with a one-game lead over Harvard in the North Division. The drama escalated as the Crimson swept the Saturday doubleheader to take a one-game lead of their own. But the Lady Green would not be denied as they rallied to sweep Sunday’s doubleheader and clinch the division. Top that Bulls-Celtics series! Dartmouth baseball also won their division–The Rolfe–which is beneficial for the school as it diverts attention from lacrosse, rowing, pretty much all other spring sports, and not having a football player drafted since Casey Cramer in 2004.

4. Columbia

Holds bragging rights over: Penn

The Lions continued their dominance in men’s country club sports this weekend when the golf team rallied from three strokes down to pip Penn for their second straight Ivy League title. Columbia clinched the victory when freshman Brendan Doyle made par on the final hole while the Quakers’ Scotty “3 Putty” Williams made bogey. The top individual finisher for the Lions was sophomore Clark Granum who finished the three round tournament with a +1 213–a good score on the Atlantic City Country Club’s tough par 70.667 course.

And since I can’t work this in even minimally smoothly into the previous paragraph, the Lions last NFL Draft pick was Marcellus Wiley, who was taken by the Bills in the second round in 1997.

5. Harvard

Holds bragging rights over: Yale

Like Columbia’s men’s golf team, the Harvard women’s golf team also managed to overcome the Atlantic City smells to win their second-straight Ivy League title. Crimson freshman Christine Cho finished tied for fourth in the individual standings and was named the Ivy League Rookie of the Year. That victory, combined with heavyweight crew winning the Douglas Adams Golden Bail of Prosperity should allow Harvard fans to continue to overlook the fact that they haven’t had a player drafted since Ryan Fitzpatrick in 2005.

6. Yale

Holds bragging rights over: Radcliffe

It was a mixed weekend for the Elis in their top Spring sport of rowing. Their Second-ranked women’s crew team topped Radcliffe for the Neko Case Cup. And while the lightweight varsity eight boat failed to beat Princeton and Harvard (see above), the entire Yale team did win the Vogel Cup for having the most points in the meet. So the Bulldogs can feel proud of the fact that they have the best not-as-good rowers out of the Big Three. Hey, anything to ignore the fact that they haven’t had a football player picked since Nate Lawrie in 2004.

7. Cornell

Holds bragging rights over: Dartmouth

The whole weekend was a dour one for the Big Red after the loss to Brown in lacrosse. Amongst the highlights for Cornell sports was baseball’s late rally in game two of Sunday’s doubleheader at Princeton. The win gave the Big Red a split in the four-game weekend series with the Tigers as the two teams ended up tied for the Ivy League Gehrig Division title at *sigh* 10-10, making the Gehrig Division the NL West of the Ivy League. The two teams will meet in a one-game playoff Wednesday at Cornell to determine which team will lose to Dartmouth for the Ivy League title. Seeing your school lose a title game in any sport is about as painful as seeing one of your school’s players drafted by the Raiders, something Cornell fans had to suffer through in 2006 when Al Davis’ skin suit picked Kevin Boothe.

8. Penn

Holds bragging rights over: Columbia

In what little good news there was for the Quakers over the weekend, both baseball and softball won weekend series against the Lions. The Penn Relays were also held this weekend, as track stars from all over the continent came to Philadelphia to soundly destroy the Ivy League athletes. And men’s basketball handed out their end-of-season awards, as Tyler Bernardini, Kevin Egee, Zack Rosen, and Rob Belcore all took home honors. One notable name missing from the honorees was sophomore guard Harrison Gaines. I wonder why he didn’t win anything? Oh, right. That’s among the most awkward things to happen to Penn athletics since 2002 3rd round pick Jeff Hatch’s career.