2019 Ivy League Men's Basketball Tournament
The 2019 Ivy League Men's Basketball Tournament was the postseason men's basketball tournament for the Ivy League of the 2018–19 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. It was held on March 16 and 17, 2019 at the John J. Lee Amphitheater on the campus of the Yale University in New Haven.[1] League co-champions Harvard and Yale met in the final with Yale winning 97–85. Yale received the Ivy League's automatic bid to the 2019 NCAA Tournament. Yale lost 74–79 in the first round to (3) LSU.
| 2019 Ivy League Men's Basketball Tournament | |
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| Classification | Division I |
| Season | 2018–19 |
| Teams | 4 |
| Site | John J. Lee Amphitheater New Haven, CT |
| Champions | Yale (1st title) |
| Winning coach | James Jones (1st title) |
| MVP | Alex Copeland (Yale) |
| Television | ESPNU, ESPN2 |
| 2018–19 Ivy League men's basketball standings | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Team | W | L | PCT | W | L | PCT | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| x-Harvard | 10 | – | 4 | .714 | 19 | – | 12 | .613 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| x-Yale † | 10 | – | 4 | .714 | 22 | – | 8 | .733 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Princeton | 8 | – | 6 | .571 | 16 | – | 12 | .571 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Penn | 7 | – | 7 | .500 | 19 | – | 12 | .613 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Cornell | 7 | – | 7 | .500 | 15 | – | 16 | .484 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Brown | 7 | – | 7 | .500 | 20 | – | 12 | .625 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Columbia | 5 | – | 9 | .357 | 10 | – | 18 | .357 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dartmouth | 2 | – | 12 | .143 | 11 | – | 19 | .367 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| x – Ivy League co-champions | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| † 2019 Ivy League Tournament winner | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Seeds
The top four teams in the Ivy League regular-season standings qualify for the tournament and are seeded according to their records in conference play, resulting in a Shaughnessy playoff. If a tie for any of the top four positions exists, tiebreakers are applied in the following order:
- Head-to-head record between teams involved in the tie.
- Record against the top team(s) not involved in the tie in order of conference record, going down through the seedings until the tie is broken.
- Average of the teams' ranking in the following computer systems: NCAA NET, Sagarin, KenPom, and ESPN Basketball Percentage Index.[2]
| Seed | School | Record | Tiebreaker |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Harvard | 10–4 | 2–0 vs. Yale |
| 2 | Yale | 10–4 | 0–2 vs. Harvard |
| 3 | Princeton | 8–6 | |
| 4 | Pennsylvania | 7–7 | 3–1 vs. Brown/Cornell |
Schedule
| Session | Game | Time | Matchup | Score | Television | Attendance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Semifinals – Saturday, March 16 | ||||||
| 1 | 1 | 12:30 pm | No. 1 Harvard vs. No. 4 Penn | 66–58 | ESPNU | |
| 2 | 3:00 pm | No. 2 Yale vs. No 3. Princeton | 83–77 | |||
| Championship – Sunday, March 17 | ||||||
| 2 | 3 | 12:00 pm | No. 1 Harvard vs. No. 2 Yale | 85–97 | ESPN2 | |
| Game times in Eastern Time. Rankings denote tournament seeding. | ||||||
Bracket
| Semifinals Saturday, March 16 ESPNU | Championship Sunday, March 17 ESPN2 | ||||||||
| 1 | Harvard | 66 | |||||||
| 4 | Penn | 58 | |||||||
| 1 | Harvard | 85 | |||||||
| 2 | Yale | 97 | |||||||
| 2 | Yale | 83 | |||||||
| 3 | Princeton | 77 | |||||||
References
- "2019 Ivy League Men's & Women's Basketball Tournaments". Ivy League.
- "Tournament Seeding Procedure & Tie-Breakers". Ivy League. Retrieved March 15, 2019.