IVY LEAGUE HOOPSTERS UNDERSTAND, BUT DISAPPOINTED
Local players take classes but can’t play this campaign
Injury-plagued Reed Farley is finally healthy and was looking forward to his final basketball season at Harvard.
Freshman Kimo Ferrari has yet to start his college career at Brown.
Ryan Langborg ’s freshman season at Princeton was interrupted by an emergency appendectomy. This was to be a bounce-back campaign.
Taurus Samuels was looking forward to building on a solid sophomore season at Dartmouth.
All four players have been
caught squarely in the middle of the decision by Ivy League presidents to pull the plug on the 2020-21 men’s basketball season amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
“This is terribly disap
pointing, especially for the seniors,” said Farley, a former All-CIF standout from La Jolla High who suffered a torn ACL late in his senior season. “The Ivy League doesn’t allow graduate stu
dents to play. You have eight semesters of eligibility in the Ivy League. So this year’s graduating seniors are done.
“I’m in a little different situation. I was hurt in my freshman season at Harvard
and missed my sophomore year.”
Farley, who scored exactly 1,500 points at La Jolla and averaged 15.7 points in his four-year career, suffered a torn meniscus at Harvard, then had a stress fracture and blood clots.
He went 755 days between games, finally playing two games last season.
“Shutting down the season might be a blessing in disguise,” said Farley, who is at home and taking classes online.
“I’ll graduate in the spring, and can shop myself as a graduate transfer, but with two years to play.
“The decision to not play this season has given me a sense of clarity.”
Farley, who would like to work in sports, is looking for a college with an MBA program.
“But given my lack of playing time, I don’t really have a body of work for schools to look at,” he said. “So I’m reaching out to