The 2020 Ivy League men's basketball tournament was the scheduled postseason men's basketball tournament for the
Ivy League of the
2019–20 NCAA Division I men's basketball season
The 2019–20 NCAA Division I men's basketball season began on November 5, 2019. The first tournament was the 2K Sports Classic and the season concluded prematurely on March 12, 2020. The 2020 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament was sch ...
. It was scheduled for March 14 and 15, 2020, at the
Lavietes Pavilion
The Ray Lavietes Basketball Pavilion at the Briggs Athletic Center is a 1,636-seat multi-purpose arena in the Allston neighborhood of Boston. Owned by Harvard University, it is the second-oldest college basketball arena still in use ( Fordham Uni ...
on the campus of
Harvard University in
Boston. On March 10, 2020, the Ivy League announced it had cancelled the tournament due to the
COVID-19 pandemic. The Ivy League awarded Yale, which finished the season in first place, the league's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament.
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 The Shaughnessy playoff system is a method of determining the champion of a sports league that is not in a divisional alignment. This format is also known as the Argus finals system. It involves the participation of the top four teams in the league ...
. 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.
Schedule
Bracket
Had the tournament gone on as scheduled, this would have been the bracket:
See also
*
2020 Ivy League women's basketball tournament
Footnotes
References
{{2020 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament navbox
Tournament
Ivy League men's basketball tournament
Ivy League men's basketball tournament
Basketball competitions in Boston
College basketball tournaments in Massachusetts
Ivy League men's basketball tournament
Ivy League men's basketball tournament
Ivy League men's basketball tournament