2024 Ivy League men's basketball tournament
| 2024 Ivy League men's basketball tournament | |
|---|---|
| Classification | Division I |
| Season | 2023–24 |
| Teams | 4 |
| Site | Levien Gymnasium New York City |
| Champions | Yale (3rd title) |
| Winning coach | James Jones (3rd title) |
| Attendance | 7,495 (total) 2,278 (championship) |
| Television | ESPNU, ESPNews, ESPN2 |
| Conf. | Overall | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Team | W | L | PCT | W | L | PCT | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Princeton | 12 | – | 2 | .857 | 24 | – | 5 | .828 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Yale † | 11 | – | 3 | .786 | 23 | – | 10 | .697 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Cornell | 11 | – | 3 | .786 | 22 | – | 8 | .733 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Brown | 8 | – | 6 | .571 | 13 | – | 18 | .419 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Harvard | 5 | – | 9 | .357 | 14 | – | 13 | .519 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Columbia | 4 | – | 10 | .286 | 13 | – | 14 | .481 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Penn | 3 | – | 11 | .214 | 11 | – | 18 | .379 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dartmouth | 2 | – | 12 | .143 | 6 | – | 21 | .222 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 2024 Ivy League men's basketball tournament, popularly referred to as "Ivy Madness", was the postseason men's basketball tournament for the Ivy League of the 2023–24 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. It was held March 16 and 17, 2024, at the Levien Gymnasium on the campus of Columbia University in New York City.[1] The winner, Yale, received the Ivy League's automatic bid to the 2024 NCAA Tournament.
Seeds
The top four teams in the Ivy League regular-season standings qualified for the tournament and were 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 NET, Sagarin, KenPom, and ESPN Basketball Percentage Index.[2]
| Seed | School | Record | Tiebreaker |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Princeton | 12–2 | |
| 2 | Yale | 11–3 | NET Ranking 86 |
| 3 | Cornell | 11–3 | NET Ranking 88 |
| 4 | Brown | 8–6 | |
| DNQ | Harvard | 5–9 | |
| DNQ | Columbia | 4–10 | |
| DNQ | Penn | 3–11 | |
| DNQ | Dartmouth | 2–12 |
Schedule
| Session | Game | Time | Matchup | Score | Television | Attendance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Semifinals – Saturday, March 16 | ||||||
| 1 | 1 | 11:00 am | No. 1 Princeton vs. No. 4 Brown | 81–90 | ESPNU | 2,612 |
| 2 | 2:00 pm | No. 2 Yale vs. No. 3 Cornell | 69–57 | ESPNews | 2,605 | |
| Championship – Sunday, March 17 | ||||||
| 2 | 3 | 12:00 pm | No. 4 Brown vs. No. 2 Yale | 61–62 | ESPN2 | 2,278 |
| Game times in Eastern Time. Rankings denote tournament seeding.[3] | ||||||
Bracket
| Semifinals Saturday, March 16 ESPNU ESPNews | Championship Sunday, March 17 ESPN2 | ||||||||
| 1 | Princeton | 81 | |||||||
| 4 | Brown | 90 | |||||||
| 4 | Brown | 61 | |||||||
| 2 | Yale | 62 | |||||||
| 2 | Yale | 69 | |||||||
| 3 | Cornell | 57 | |||||||
See also
References
- ^ "2024 Ivy League Men's & Women's Basketball Tournaments - Ivy League". ivyleague.com. Retrieved November 25, 2023.
- ^ "Tournament Seeding Procedure & Tie-Breakers". Ivy League. Retrieved March 15, 2019.
- ^ "TV Coverage".