2018–19 Ivy League Men's Basketball Season
The 2018–19 Ivy League men's basketball season marked the continuation of the annual tradition of competitive basketball among Ivy League members. The tradition began when the league was formed during the 1956–57 NCAA University Division men's basketball season, 1956–57 season and its history extends to the predecessor Eastern Intercollegiate Basketball League, which was formed in 1902. Harvard and Yale co-shared the league title after finishing the regular season 10–4 within the Ivy League. Yale earned the league's bid to the 2019 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament after defeating Princeton in the semifinals and Harvard in the finals of the inaugural conference tournament. Miye Oni of 2018–19 Yale Bulldogs men's basketball team, Yale was named Ivy League Men's Basketball Player of the Year. All-Ivy Teams *Unanimous NCAA tournament References {{DEFAULTSORT:2018-19 Ivy League Men's Basketball Season 2018–19 Ivy League men's basketball se ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   [Amazon] |
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NCAA
The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) is a nonprofit organization that regulates College athletics in the United States, student athletics among about 1,100 schools in the United States, and Simon Fraser University, 1 in Canada. It also organizes the Athletics (physical culture), athletic programs of colleges and helps over 500,000 college student athletes who compete annually in college sports. The headquarters is located in Indianapolis, Indiana. Until the 1956–57 academic year, the NCAA was a single division for all schools. That year, the NCAA split into the NCAA University Division, University Division and the NCAA College Division, College Division. In August 1973, the current three-division system of NCAA Division I, Division I, NCAA Division II, Division II, and NCAA Division III, Division III was adopted by the NCAA membership in a special convention. Under NCAA rules, Division I and Division II schools can offer athletic scholarships to students. Divi ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   [Amazon] |
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1956–57 NCAA University Division Men's Basketball Season
The 1956–57 NCAA men's University Division basketball season began in December 1956. It progressed through the regular season and conference tournaments, and concluded with the 1957 NCAA University Division basketball tournament championship game on March 23, 1957, at Municipal Auditorium (Kansas City), Municipal Auditorium in Kansas City, Missouri, Kansas City, Missouri. The 1956–57 North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball team, North Carolina Tar Heels won their first NCAA national championship with a 54–53 triple-Overtime (sports), overtime victory over the 1956–57 Kansas Jayhawks men's basketball team, Kansas Jayhawks. Rule changes * The width of the free throw lane (also known as the "Key (basketball), key"), increased from . * When teams lined up along the key for a free throw, it became mandatory that the two spaces adjacent to the end line be occupied by opponents of the player shooting the free throw. Previously, one player from each team occupied the spaces adj ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   [Amazon] |
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Matt Morgan
Matthew Thomas Morgan (born September 10, 1976) is an American politician and retired professional wrestler. He is the former mayor and current deputy mayor of the city of Longwood, Florida and is a former gladiator on ''American Gladiators''. As a wrestler, he is known for his time in World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), where he performed on the SmackDown brand, and Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA), where he is a two-time TNA World Tag Team Champion. Early life Matthew Thomas Morgan was born in Fairfield, Connecticut on September 10, 1976. After a successful high school basketball career at Fairfield High School in Connecticut, Morgan played Division I college basketball for Monmouth University at center position. During Morgan's freshman year at the university, the Monmouth Hawks defeated Rider University to become the Northeast Conference champions. By winning the conference tournament, Monmouth received an automatic bid to the 1996 NCAA tournament. Of his trip to ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   [Amazon] |
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Alex Copeland
Spunge (often typeset as punge'') is a ska punk band from Tewkesbury, England. Through many years of touring, Spunge have toured with or played alongside a number of UK bands; and several American bands such as Green Day, Dropkick Murphys and Reel Big Fish; and been supported on a UK tour by Bowling for Soup; the latter of whom contributed backing vocals to the song "Centerfold" on the ''That Should Cover It!'' album. In 2019 the band toured the UK supporting Reel Big Fish, playing the same set they recorded for the album Live in 'nam... (Cheltenham) ''Pedigree Chump'' and ''Room for Abuse'' Conceived in July 1994, with almost the same line up as today (the only difference being that Copeland used to double up on bass), the band went through a lengthy gestation period (adding bassist Simon Bayliss in 1995, and replacing him with Martin Holt in 1997), before emerging with the ''Kicking Pigeons'' EP in 1998. Having sold 5000 copies at pub gigs the band decided that there was e ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   [Amazon] |
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Bryce Aiken
Bryce Aiken (born December 14, 1996) is an American basketball player. He previously played college basketball for the Seton Hall Pirates of the Big East Conference and the Harvard Crimson. High school career Raised in Randolph, New Jersey, Aiken played basketball during his freshman year at Pope John XXIII Regional High School in Sparta, New Jersey. While attending Pope John, he became friends with National Basketball Association player Kyrie Irving. For his sophomore year, Aiken transferred to The Patrick School, Irving's former team, in Hillside, New Jersey. He averaged 10.8 points per game as a senior and helped his team to a 64–18 record over three years, including a runner-up finish at the City of Palms Classic. On the Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) circuit, he played for the PSA Cardinals. On October 8, 2015, Aiken committed to play college basketball for Harvard over offers from Miami (Florida) and Seton Hall. He was a consensus four-star recruit and was ranked among the ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   [Amazon] |
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Ivy League Men's Basketball Player Of The Year
The Ivy League Men's Basketball Player of the Year is an award given to the Ivy League's most outstanding player. The award was first given following the 1974–75 season. There have been six players honored on two occasions: Craig Robinson, Kit Mueller, Jerome Allen, Ugonna Onyekwe, Ibrahim Jaaber and Justin Sears. No player has ever won the award three times. There have been three ties for player of the year in the award's history: in 1981–82 ( Paul Little of Penn and Craig Robinson of Princeton); in 1992–93 (Jerome Allen of Penn and Buck Jenkins of Columbia); and in 2019–20 ( Paul Atkinson of Yale and A. J. Brodeur of Penn). There was no 2021 award because the Ivy League canceled all winter sports for the 2020–21 season, including men's basketball, due to COVID-19 concerns. Key Winners Winners by school References {{Men's college basketball award navbox NCAA Division I men's basketball conference players of the year Player of the Year Several s ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   [Amazon] |
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2019 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament
The 2019 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament involved 68 teams playing in a single-elimination tournament to determine the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I men's basketball national champion for the 2018–19 season. The 81st annual edition of the tournament began on March 19, 2019, and concluded with the championship game on April 8, at U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis, Minnesota, between the Texas Tech Red Raiders and the Virginia Cavaliers, with Virginia winning 85–77 in overtime. Two schools made their first appearances in the tournament: Big South champion Gardner–Webb and Southland champion Abilene Christian. For the first time since 2001 (also hosted in Minneapolis), no #8 seed survived the first round of the tournament. This was also the first time since the First Four was established in 2011 that no team in the First Four advanced past the first round of the tournament. This was the first Final Four since 2012 that did not incl ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   [Amazon] |
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Eastern Intercollegiate Basketball League
The Eastern Intercollegiate Basketball League was an athletic conference for men's college basketball, beginning with the 1901–02 season and ending with the 1954–55 season. Its membership ranged from four to eight members; all of these teams now compete in the Ivy League, which began play in 1955–56. The Ivy League's men's basketball league claims the EIBL's history as its own. Through the EIBL, the Ivy League is the oldest basketball conference in the National Collegiate Athletic Association; the next oldest, the Big Ten Conference, began play in 1905–06. Former members ;Notes: Membership timeline DateFormat = yyyy ImageSize = width:1000 height:auto barincrement:20 Period = from:1901 till:1955 TimeAxis = orientation:horizontal PlotArea = right:0 left:0 bottom:50 top:0 Colors = id:barcolor id:line value:black id:bg value:white id:closed value:rgb(0.66,0.66,0.66) id:CA value:rgb(0.61,0.87,1) id:PR value:rgb(1,0.56,0) id:YL value:rgb(0.06,0.3,0.57) id:H ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   [Amazon] |
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Ivy League
The Ivy League is an American collegiate List of NCAA conferences, athletic conference of eight Private university, private Research university, research universities in the Northeastern United States. It participates in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) NCAA Division I, Division I, and in College football, football, in the Football Championship Subdivision (FCS). The term ''Ivy League'' is used more broadly to refer to the eight schools that belong to the league, which are globally renowned as elite colleges associated with Academic achievement, academic excellence, College admissions in the United States#Selectivity, highly selective admissions, and social elitism. The term was used as early as 1933, and it became official in 1954 following the formation of the Ivy League athletic conference. At times, they have also been referred to as the "Ancient Eight". The eight members of the Ivy League are Brown University, Columbia University, Cornell University, Da ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   [Amazon] |
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College Basketball
College basketball is basketball that is played by teams of Student athlete, student-athletes at universities and colleges. In the Higher education in the United States, United States, colleges and universities are governed by collegiate athletic bodies, including the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA), the United States Collegiate Athletic Association (USCAA), the National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA), and the National Christian College Athletic Association (NCCAA). Each of these various organizations is subdivided into one to three divisions, based on the number and level of scholarships that may be provided to the athletes. Teams with more talent tend to win over teams with less talent. Each organization has different conferences to divide the teams into groups. Traditionally, the location of a school has been a significant factor in determining conference affiliation. The bulk of the g ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   [Amazon] |
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Basketball
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular Basketball court, court, compete with the primary objective of #Shooting, shooting a basketball (ball), basketball (approximately in diameter) through the defender's Basket (basketball), hoop (a basket in diameter mounted high to a Backboard (basketball), backboard at each end of the court), while preventing the opposing team from shooting through their own hoop. A Field goal (basketball), field goal is worth two points, unless made from behind the 3 point line, three-point line, when it is worth three. After a foul, timed play stops and the player fouled or designated to shoot a technical foul is given one, two or three one-point free throws. The team with the most points at the end of the game wins, but if regulation play expires with the score tied, an additional period of play (Overtime (sports), overtime) is mandated. Players advance the ball by boun ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   [Amazon] |
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2019–20 Ivy League Men's Basketball Season
The 2019–20 Ivy League men's basketball season is the Ivy League's 66th season of basketball. Yale and Harvard are defending regular season champions. Yale defeated Harvard in the Ivy League tournament to each the conference's bid to the NCAA tournament last season. The 2019-2020 Ivy League Tournament was scheduled to take place at Harvard University, March 13–15, 2020. On March 10, 2020, the Ivy League announced that the 2020 Ivy League Tournament is cancelled due to the coronavirus. Yale was to represent the Ivy League in the 2020 NCAA Men's basketball tournament. The last Ivy League games were played on March 7th, 2020. 612 days later, the Ivy League would resume play after a hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Coaches ''Notes:'' * All records, appearances, titles, etc. are from time with current school only. * Overall and Ivy records are from time at current school through the end of the 2018–19 season. Players of the week Conference matrix Source All-Con ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   [Amazon] |