The 2019 Ivy League men's basketball tournament was the postseason men's basketball tournament for the
Ivy League
The Ivy League is an American collegiate athletic conference comprising eight private research universities in the Northeastern United States. The term ''Ivy League'' is typically used beyond the sports context to refer to the eight school ...
of the
2018–19 NCAA Division I men's basketball season
The 2018–19 NCAA Division I men's basketball season began on November 6, 2018. The first tournament was the 2K Sports Classic and the season concluded with the Final Four in Minneapolis on April 8, 2019. Practices officially began on September ...
. It was held on March 16 and 17, 2019, at the
John J. Lee Amphitheater on the campus of
Yale University
Yale University is a Private university, private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the List of Colonial Colleges, third-oldest institution of higher education in the United Sta ...
in
New Haven, Connecticut
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.
League co-champions
Harvard and
Yale
Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the wor ...
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
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.
This was the last Ivy League tournament to be held for three years due to
COVID-19
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disruptions. The
2020 edition was never played, and the Ivy League canceled its entire
2020–21 season.
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
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Mathematics and physics
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* Net, a linear system of divisors of dimension 2
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, Sagarin,
KenPom
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, and ESPN Basketball Percentage Index.
Schedule
Bracket
See also
*
2019 Ivy League women's basketball tournament
References
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Tournament
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# One or more competitions held at a single venue and concentr ...
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