The 2020 Ivy League men's basketball tournament was the scheduled postseason men's basketball tournament for the

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of the

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. It was scheduled for March 14 and 15, 2020, at the

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on the campus of

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. On March 10, 2020, the Ivy League announced it had cancelled the tournament due to the

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. 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. 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

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, Sagarin,

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, and ESPN Basketball Percentage Index.

Schedule

Bracket

Had the tournament gone on as scheduled, this would have been the bracket:

Footnotes

References

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Seeds

Schedule

Bracket

See also

Footnotes

References