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.