2019 Ivy League Women's Basketball Tournament

The 2019 Ivy League Women's Basketball Tournament was a women's college conference tournament held March 16 and 17, 2019, at the Payne Whitney Gymnasium on the campus of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. Princeton defeated Penn to earn the Ivy League's automatic bid to the 2019 NCAA Tournament.[1][2]

2019 Ivy League Women's Basketball Tournament
ClassificationDivision I
Season201819
Teams4
SitePayne Whitney Gymnasium
New Haven, Connecticut
ChampionsPrinceton (2nd title)
Winning coachCourtney Banghart (2nd title)
MVPBella Alarie (Princeton)
TelevisionESPNU, ESPN3
2018–19 Ivy League women's basketball standings
Conf  Overall
TeamW L PCT  W L PCT
Penn122 .857  246  .800
Princeton *†122 .857  2210  .688
Harvard95 .643  1712  .586
Yale68 .429  1613  .552
Dartmouth68 .429  1314  .481
Cornell68 .429  1214  .462
Columbia410 .286  819  .296
Brown113 .071  921  .300
2019 Ivy League Tournament winner
*Tournament #1 seed
As of March 23, 2019; Rankings from AP Poll

Seeds

Only the top four teams in the 2018–19 Ivy League regular-season standings will participate in the tournament and be seeded according to their records in conference play, resulting in a Shaughnessy playoff.

Seed School Overall Conference Tiebreaker
1 Princeton 12–2 20–9 2–0 vs. Harvard
2 Penn 12–2 22–5 1–1 vs. Harvard
3 Harvard 9–5 16–11
4 Cornell 6–8 12–13 3–1 vs. Yale, Dartmouth

Schedule

Session Game Time* Matchup# Television Attendance
Semifinals – Saturday, March 16
1 1 6:00 PM #1 Princeton vs. #4 Cornell ESPN3
2 8:30 PM #2 Penn vs. #3 Harvard
Championship – Sunday, March 17
2 3 4:00 PM #1 Princeton vs. #2 Penn ESPNU

*Game times in Eastern Time. #Rankings denote tournament seeding.

Bracket

Semifinals
Saturday, March 16
Payne Whitney Gymnasium
Final
Sunday, March 17
Payne Whitney Gymnasium
      
1 Princeton 68
4 Cornell 47
1 Princeton 65
2 Penn 54
2 Penn 91
3 Harvard 62

References

  1. "2019 Ivy League Men's & Women's Basketball Tournaments" (Press release). Ivy League. Retrieved December 16, 2018.
  2. "Alarie helps Princeton women beat Penn to win Ivy title". USA TODAY. Retrieved 2019-03-18.
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