<p>How hard is it to play ivy league basketball such as Columbia and Princeton? How good do you have to be assuming one has a high gpa n sat score. I am a 10th gr starting point guard for my varsity team. I wish to know how good one has to be to play basketball at an ivy</p>
<p>Bumppppppp</p>
<p>You have to be just as good as when you asked this question a few months ago.</p>
<p>You have to be really solid. Think 1000 point scorer at a big time high school program. Also you need to at least be a pretty good student. Most of those offenses are fairly perimeter oriented, so definitely get a lot of jumpers up and work on defending the three and moving the ball.</p>
<p>You have to be 1000000x better than Michael Jordan combined with Len Bias, hold an internship at CERN or equivalent, and have supernatural powers like the Green Latern to succeed in Ivy League basketball.</p>
<p>Also, to the OP, while I did not play HS basketball I am an absolute basketball lover. I coach kids and watch film of high schoolers for fun. If you want, PM me and I can look at any tapes you have/stats that you may not want to put in public and give you an honest assessment.</p>
<p>Most Ivy players fall into three categories. First players with DI basketball skills but off positioned. A three that is really 6’4" or a four that is 6’7". These kids are competing at Five Star and Nike camp. These players will be starters in the Ivy league because they can execute on the floor without 6’9" two’s or 6’5" ones on the floor. The second group are kids that want to play DI but lack the explosion to compete in most D1 programs. These players typically end up in the lower half of Ivy programs. These kids have typically been high all conference players but get exposed in the summer AAU programs for their limitations. The final group are kids that want to be in a program but will be practice squad players for the first 8+/- players.</p>