The 2018–19 Ivy League men's basketball season marked the continuation of the annual tradition of competitive

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among

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members. The tradition began when the league was formed during the 1956–57 season and its history extends to the predecessor

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 te ...

, 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 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 ...

after defeating Princeton in the semifinals and Harvard in the finals of the inaugural conference tournament.

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was named

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All-Ivy Teams

NCAA tournament

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