No amount of ivy-clad walls will cut it in the Crucy League. You need a snappy abbreviation, preferably three letters that can't be clued any other way. And those letters need to be pally enough to get it on with other answers.
How can you tell who's at the top of the Crucy League? You can't just be "Terre Haute sch." (ISU) or "The Miners of the N.C.A.A." (UTEP); you must be so ubiquitous that alumni (Kofi Annan - MIT, Shaq - LSU, Bill and Hillary - Yale) or stadia (Alex Box or Pete Maravich - LSU) are brought in to try to fool you.
 | LSU Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA Fightin' Tigers of the Southeastern Conference Shaq played here |
 | Yale Yale University, New Haven, CT Bulldogs of the Ivy League Students are Elis (after Elihu Yale) Bill and Hillary met here |
 | SMU Southern Methodist University, University Park, TX Mustangs of Conference USA |
 | MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA Engineers of the New England Football Conference Kofi Annan studied for a master's here |
 | UCLA University of California, Los Angeles, CA Bruins of the Pac-10 Colors are "True Blue" and gold |
 | ORU Oral Roberts University, Tulsa, OK Golden Eagles of The Summit League Founded by televangelist Oral Roberts |
 | Coe Coe College, Cedar Rapids, IA Kohawks of the Iowa Intercollegiate Athletic Conference |
 | UPenn or Penn University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA Quakers of the Ivy League |
 | RPI Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY Engineers of the Liberty League Nobody likes the new team name Red Hawks and it's certainly not used in crossword clues |
 | ASU Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ Sun Devils of the Pac-10 |
 | OSU Ohio State University, Columbus, OH Buckeyes of the Big Ten OSU can also be Oklahoma State University and Oregon State University |
 | MSU Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI Spartans of the Big Ten |
 | Elon Elon University, Elon, NC Phoenix of the Southern Conference |
 | URI University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI Rams of the Atlantic 10 |
 | UNH University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH Wildcats of the America East Conference |
 | TCU Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, TX Horned Frogs of the Mountain West Conference |
 | St. Olaf St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN Oles of the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference |
 | NYU New York University, Greenwich Village, NY Violets of the University Athletic Association |
 | UVA University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA Cavaliers of the Atlantic Coast Conference |
 | UNLV University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV (Runnin') Rebels of the Mountain West Conference |
 | UNC University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC Tar Heels of the Atlantic Coast Conference |
 | TSU Tennessee State University, Nashville, TN Tigers of the Ohio Valley Conference |
 | OSU Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK Cowboys of the Big 12 OSU can also be Ohio State University and Oregon State University |
 | LIU Long Island University, Brooklyn, NY Blackbirds of the Northeast Conference |
 | Iona Iona College, New Rochelle, NY Gaels of the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference |
 | FSU Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL Seminoles of the Atlantic Coast Conference |
 | Berea Berea College, Berea, KY Mountaineers of the Kentucky Intercollegiate Athletic Conference |
 | USNA United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD Midshipmen John McCain's alma mater |
 | UMass University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA Minutemen of the Atlantic 10 Conference |
 | Tufts Tufts University, Medford/Somerville, MA Jumbos of the New England Small College Athletic Conference |
 | Seton Seton Hall University, South Orange, NJ Pirates of the Big East |
 | Pitt University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA Panthers of the Big East |
 | Kean Kean University, Union Township, NJ Cougars of the Eastern College Athletic Conference |
 | UTEP University of Texas, El Paso, TX Miners of Conference USA |
 | U-Tenn University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN Volunteers, or Vols for short, of the Southeastern Conference |
 | USD University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD Coyotes of the Great West Conference |
 | UCSD University of California, San Diego, CA Tritons of the California Collegiate Athletic Association |
 | RIC Rhode Island College, Providence, RI Anchormen of the Eastern College Athletic Conference |
 | OSU Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR Beavers of the Pac-10 OSU can also be Ohio State University and Oklahoma State University |
 | ISU Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN Sycamores of the Missouri Valley Conference |
 | ISU Iowa State University, Ames, IA Cyclones of the Big 12 |
 | GSU Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA Panthers of the Colonial Athletic Association |
 | EMU Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI Eagles of the Mid-American Conference |
 | Drew U Drew University, Madison, NJ Rangers of the Landmark Conference |
 | Brown Brown University, Providence, RI Brown Bears of the Ivy League |
7 comments:
Great reference-thanks for compiling it. Waiting for your Sunday post and came across it.
Surely, University of Pittsburgh athletes are "Panthers", not "Pathers"
Well at least I didn't call them Panters.
The mistake has now been corrected - thanks for pointing it out!
Great post - forgot an important school, Brown!(Thu, Apr 23, 2009) Plus i think there have been a few younger constructors who have attended the university...
Thanks Jeff. The reason Brown didn't make it into here before is that it's a rarish answer and then seldom clued with reference to the school. Maybe a new generation of constructors will raise its profile in the Crucy League, but for now it has a very low ranking. Brown does get used a lot in clues and hence features prominently in Pavlov's Guide to Crosswords.
I'd like to know where the name "Crucy" league came from. My maiden name is Crucy and I'm just curious if it has a meaning I'm not aware of. Thanks for any information.
Don't take "Crucy" too seriously: it is my own portmanteau of Ivy (as in Ivy League) and cruci- (as in cruciverbalism).
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