2020 Ivy League Women's Basketball Tournament
The 2020 Ivy League Women's Basketball Tournament was scheduled to be the women's college conference tournament held March 13 and 14, 2020, at the Lavietes Pavilion on the campus of Harvard University in Boston.[lower-alpha 1] The winner was to earn the Ivy League's automatic bid to the 2020 NCAA Tournament.[1] On March 10, 2020, the Ivy League announced it had cancelled the tournament due to the COVID-19 pandemic. As a result of winning the regular season title, Princeton was named the Ivy League's automatic qualifier for the NCAA Tournament.[2]
| 2020 Ivy League Women's Basketball Tournament | |
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| Classification | Division I |
| Season | 2019–20 |
| Teams | 4 |
| Site | Lavietes Pavilion Boston, Massachusetts |
| Television | ESPN+, ESPNews |
| 2019–20 Ivy League women's basketball standings | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Conf | Overall | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Team | W | L | PCT | W | L | PCT | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| No. 22 Princeton | 14 | – | 0 | 1.000 | 26 | – | 1 | .963 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Penn | 10 | – | 4 | .714 | 20 | – | 7 | .741 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Yale | 9 | – | 5 | .643 | 18 | – | 8 | .692 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Columbia | 8 | – | 6 | .571 | 17 | – | 10 | .630 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Harvard | 6 | – | 8 | .429 | 15 | – | 12 | .556 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dartmouth | 4 | – | 10 | .286 | 10 | – | 17 | .370 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Cornell | 3 | – | 11 | .214 | 10 | – | 16 | .385 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Brown | 2 | – | 12 | .143 | 8 | – | 19 | .296 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| † 2020 Ivy League Tournament winner As of August 14, 2020 Ivy League Tournament canceled due to COVID-19 pandemic; Rankings from AP Poll | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Seeds
Only the top four teams in the 2019–20 Ivy League regular-season standings were to participate in the tournament and be seeded according to their records in conference play, resulting in a Shaughnessy playoff.
| Seed | School | Overall | Conference |
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| 1 | Princeton | 14–0 | 26–1 |
| 2 | Penn | 10–4 | 20–7 |
| 3 | Yale | 9–5 | 18–8 |
| 4 | Columbia | 8–6 | 17–10 |
Footnotes
- Although Harvard's overall administration and undergraduate campus are in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the athletic department offices and almost all athletic venues, including Lavietes Pavilion, lie within the city limits of Boston.
References
- "Ivy Madness Fields Set for Next Weekend in Boston" (Press release). Ivy League. Retrieved March 7, 2020.
- "Ivy League cancels conference basketball tournaments because of coronavirus". ESPN.com.