Ivy Tournament Notebook

During the halftime break in Sunday afternoon's Ivy League women's basketball championship game, each coach polled her players and then submitted a team ballot for the All-Ivy tam and the tourney MVP. Dartmouth center Gail Koziara (25.3 points per game and 14.3 rebounds per game on the weekend) walked away with the MVP laurels. Her 26-point. 20-rebound performance in Sunday's final led the Green to its third consecutive Ivy title. Selections to the All-Ivy squad included: Dartmouth's Ann Deacon (21.3 ppg). Yale's Margy Hutchinson (14.7 ppg) and Regina Sullivan (7.0 ppg), Brown freshman Donna Yaffee (18.3 ppg) and Penn's Beth Stegner (19.5 ppg).

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The Barnard team, which opted not to enter this year's tournament because of indignities suffered in previous years, came to Cambridge in full force Friday afternoon. Cheering indiscrimantly and waving homemade signs that read "Barnard's is back" and "You're ugly", the New Yorkers watched the entire event from the IAB stands.

"We just wanted to let everyone know that Barnard hasn't died, and we're still around," team captain Nora Beck said of her squad excursion.

In place of the Ivy tournament, the Lady Lions competed in a Seven Sisters event, finishing last after dropping games to Wellesley and Mt. Holyoke.

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Although most of the top performers were veterans--Koziara, Deacon, Stegner. To masiewicz--the majority of the tourney participants were underclassmen. No team has more than two seniors on its roster, and of the 10 Brown cagers, six were freshman.

Prior to Saturday's contest with Cornell, the Crimson squad thanked its only four-year player. Denise Williamson, with a bouquet of red roses for her contributions to the team.

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Only in the Ivy League Unlike average collegiate athletes with several high school varsity letters to their credit. Yale freshman Kendall Sharp arrived in New Haven this fall with absolutely no experience in organized athletic competition. Just before the winter season began, a friend persuaded the reluctant Sharp to tag along to basketball tryouts. While the friend--a former high school team captain--got the ax early. Sharp impressed Eli coach Maggic Muldoon enough with her natural athletic prowess to win a spot on the roster.

"She didn't have any bad habits to unlearn, and so we decided to keep her," Muldoon said.

Sharp, who has seen less than 30 minutes playing time all season, says that although she never played basketball before she was always very athletically oriented. An assortment of demanding student activities prevented the Vero Beach, Fla. native from participating in any varsity programs, but she bodysurfed frequently.