Two memos to the NCAA Tournament Committee...

One involves a team that is, as of right now, projected to be playing in Dayton next Tuesday or Wednesday.

The other involves a team which, for the first time in many years, has won the Ivy League.

I'm not sure either team should be playing.

• Why is Jim Boeheim still at Syracuse?  And isn't it time for the committee to finally make a statement against a "name program" and "name coach" that conduct actually -- oh, I don't know -- matters?  As of right now, projections have Syracuse in the tournament, but in the play-in round.
• And then there's the burgeoning story out of Yale.  Yale has won the Ivy League, and it's automatic berth -- the one conference which does not have a championship tournament to determine said berth.  Jack Montague, however, will not be among them.

Montague has been expelled from Yale, reportedly for sexual assault.  The school has cited privacy issues in not reporting this, but his father has said

The team wore shirts supporting Montague during it's clinching win over Columbia.

I think there are at least two reasons that Yale should be removed from the Tournament:

1) It is clear that, unless the assault and the expulsion happened literally almost simultaneously (and, take it from me in far lesser cases than this, it is usually not -- double that for athletes!!!), Montague almost certainly played after the assault, which would make him an ineligible player.  He withdrew from Yale February 10 and was removed permanently in the first week of March.  (Jezebel)

2) Again, as in the Syracuse case:  If we are left to believe that any credibility is to remain with this tournament (and Obama doesn't count -- and get your fucking ass to Nancy Reagan's funeral, Mr. President!!!), it is long past time for various parties to make conduct matter.  It is now clear that the team supports Montague, and, in so doing, indirectly (at the very least) sanctions his conduct.  At this point, that should be enough for somebody to step in (be it from Yale, the Ivy League, or the Tournament Committee itself) to remove Yale from the championship of the league and install it's runner-up as the automatic berth in the tournament.

Yes, there's a lot we don't know -- but there are two known and stipulated facts:

Montague was expelled from Yale, and the team still supports him.  Unless these rumors of sexual assault/rape have no merit (and a firestorm of criticism has fallen on the team since Montague's removal), that should be enough (because the school found sufficient misconduct to expel him) to forfeit the tournament spot.