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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] |
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] |
Steve Donahue
Steve Donahue (born May 21, 1962) is an American college basketball coach who was most recently the head coach of the Penn Quakers men's basketball team. He also served as head coach at Boston College and Cornell. Background Donahue is a native of Springfield Township, Pennsylvania and a former player at Ursinus College. Coaching career Early jobs Prior to becoming the head coach at Cornell University, Donahue began his coaching career as an assistant coach at Springfield High School, Monsignor Bonner High School, Philadelphia University, and The University of Pennsylvania. Cornell Donahue had been the head coach at Cornell from September 2000 until April 6, 2010. Cornell struggled early under Donahue, but he eventually turned the program around. A March 1, 2008 win over the Harvard Crimson gave Cornell the Ivy League championship for the first time since 1988 and just the second title in program history. On March 6, 2009, with Princeton's loss to Columbia, Cornell clinch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Smith (basketball, Born 1997)
Michael Smith (born October 13, 1997) is an American professional basketball player for Karşıyaka Basket of the Basketbol Süper Ligi (BSL). He played college basketball for the Columbia Lions men's basketball, Columbia Lions and the Michigan Wolverines men's basketball, Michigan Wolverines. He was the 2019–20 Ivy League men's basketball season, 2019–20 Ivy League scoring champion and holds the Big Ten men's basketball tournament single-game assists record (15). He has also led both the Ivy League (2017–18) and the Big Ten (2020–21) in assists per game. Early life As an eighth-grader in 2012, Smith led Burr Ridge Middle School in Burr Ridge, Illinois to an Illinois Elementary School Association state championship. He was a four-year varsity team, varsity basketball starter at Fenwick High School (Oak Park, Illinois), Fenwick High School in Oak Park, Illinois. On January 18, 2016, as a senior, Smith scored a career-high 38 points in a 71–68 win over Simeon Caree ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jordan Bruner
Dontae Jordan Bruner (born December 31, 1997) is an American professional basketball player who last played for Tachikawa Dice of the B.League. He played college basketball for the Alabama Crimson Tide and the Yale Bulldogs. Early life and high school career Bruner was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma but moved to South Carolina at the age of 11. He attended Spring Valley High School, where he was coached by Perry Dozier. As a sophomore, he averaged 12 points per game. Bruner missed most of his junior season with injuries. As a senior, he averaged 16 points, 12 rebounds, 4 assists and 4 blocks per game. Bruner was a three-time All-State performer. He was regarded as a three-star prospect, ranked the second-best South Carolina player in his class by 247 Sports. Bruner committed to Yale in November 2015 over an offer from Clemson. College career Bruner missed the first four games of his freshman season with a knee injury and wore a brace for the rest of the year. On January 2, 201 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ivy League Men's Basketball Coach Of The Year
''Hedera'', commonly called ivy (plural ivies), is a genus of 12–15 species of evergreen climbing or ground-creeping woody plants in the family Araliaceae, native to Western Europe, Central Europe, Southern Europe, Macaronesia, northwestern Africa and across central-southern Asia east to Japan and Taiwan. Several species are cultivated as climbing ornamentals, and the name ''ivy'' especially denotes common ivy (''Hedera helix''), known in North America as "English ivy", which is frequently planted to clothe brick walls. Description On level ground ivies remain creeping, not exceeding 5–20 cm height, but on surfaces suitable for climbing, including trees, natural rock outcrops or man-made structures such as quarry rock faces or built masonry and wooden structures, they can climb to at least 30 m above the ground. Ivies have two leaf types, with palmately lobed juvenile leaves on creeping and climbing stems and unlobed cordate adult leaves on fertile flowering stems e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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] |
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] |
Tosan Evbuomwan
Torisesan "Tosan" Evbuomwan (; born 16 February 2001) is an English professional basketball player for the Brooklyn Nets of the National Basketball Association (NBA), on a two-way contract with the Long Island Nets of the NBA G League. He played college basketball for the Princeton Tigers. Early life Evbuomwan was born and raised in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. His father, Isaac, is a gynecologist who played college basketball at the University of Lagos in his native Nigeria. His mother, Michelle, who was born to a Nigerian father and Irish mother, moved to Lagos when she was 21 years old. Using her commercial pilot's license she earned in the UK, she became the first female captain to pilot a plane in Nigeria. Michelle met Isaac when she went in for a physical and they began dating. Isaac moved to England for work one year later and Michelle followed him there; they decided to settle in Newcastle after starting a family. Evbuomwan's mother died of breast cancer on 16 November 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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] |
James Jones (basketball, Born 1964)
James Fitzgerald Jones (born February 20, 1964) is an American men's college basketball coach who is the head coach at Yale University. Born on Long Island, Jones played college basketball at Albany Great Danes men's basketball, SUNY Albany and worked as a sales executive for NCR Corporation before beginning his coaching career. Jones succeeded Dick Kuchen as the 22nd men's basketball head coach of Yale University on April 27, 1999. On March 17, 2016, Jones and the Bulldogs upset the fifth-seeded Baylor University Bears in the first round of the 2016 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament. On March 22, 2024, Jones and the Bulldogs upset the fourth-seeded Auburn University Tigers in the first round of the 2024 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament. Five of Jones' assistants have gone on to become head coaches: Ted Hotaling (New Haven Chargers, University of New Haven), Rob Senderoff (Kent State Golden Flashes men's basketball, Kent State University), Isaiah Cavaco (Obe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mitch Henderson
Mitchell Gordon Henderson (born August 14, 1975) is an American college basketball coach, currently serving as head coach for the Princeton Tigers men's basketball team. Before taking the Princeton job in 2011, he served as an assistant for the Northwestern Wildcats men's basketball team for 11 seasons under Bill Carmody. Henderson was a member of three consecutive Ivy League championship Princeton teams as a player (two of which went undefeated in conference, the first tying the school record with 19 consecutive wins and the second achieving 20). He was a co-captain of the second of these undefeated league champions along with Steve Goodrich. Early life Born in Vincennes, Indiana, Henderson later lived in Lexington, Kentucky as a teenager and attended Culver Military Academy in Culver, Indiana for high school. Henderson was a twelve-time varsity letter winner at Culver in football, basketball and baseball. In 1994, he was drafted by the New York Yankees with the 24th pick of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tommy Amaker
Harold Tommy Amaker Jr. (; born June 6, 1965) is an American college basketball coach and the head coach of the Harvard University men's basketball team. He has also coached for the University of Michigan and Seton Hall University. He played point guard and later served as an assistant coach at Duke University under Mike Krzyzewski. An All-American player, Amaker set numerous records and earned many honors and awards. He took Seton Hall to the post season in each of his four seasons as their coach, helped Michigan win the National Invitation Tournament the year after a probationary ban from postseason play, and had the three highest single-season win totals in the history of Harvard basketball, the school's first six Ivy League championships and first NCAA tournament victory. Amaker was a high school basketball star at W. T. Woodson High School from 1979 to 1983 under coach Paul (Red) Jenkins. Amaker led the Woodson Cavaliers to four straight Northern District titles, includi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
