2025 Ivy League women's basketball tournament
| 2025 Ivy League women's basketball tournament | |
|---|---|
| Classification | Division I |
| Season | 2024–25 |
| Teams | 4 |
| Site | Pizzitola Sports Center Providence, Rhode Island |
| Champions | Harvard (1st title) |
| Winning coach | Carrie Moore (1st title) |
| MVP | Harmoni Turner |
| Television | ESPNU, ESPN+, |
| Conf. | Overall | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Team | W | L | PCT | W | L | PCT | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Columbia | 13 | – | 1 | .929 | 24 | – | 7 | .774 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Princeton | 12 | – | 2 | .857 | 21 | – | 8 | .724 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Harvard † | 11 | – | 3 | .786 | 24 | – | 5 | .828 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Penn | 6 | – | 8 | .429 | 15 | – | 13 | .536 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Brown | 6 | – | 8 | .429 | 12 | – | 15 | .444 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Cornell | 3 | – | 11 | .214 | 7 | – | 20 | .259 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Yale | 3 | – | 11 | .214 | 4 | – | 23 | .148 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dartmouth | 2 | – | 12 | .143 | 8 | – | 19 | .296 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| † winner | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The 2025 Ivy League Women's Basketball Tournament, popularly referred to as "Ivy Madness", is the scheduled postseason women's basketball tournament for the Ivy League of the 2024–25 NCAA Division I women's basketball season. It was held on March 14 and 15, 2025, at the Pizzitola Sports Center on the campus of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.[1][2] The winner, Harvard, received the Ivy League's automatic bid to the 2025 NCAA Tournament.
Seeds
The top four teams in the Ivy League regular-season standings will qualify for the tournament and will be 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.[3]
| Seed | School | Record | Tiebreaker |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Columbia | 13–1 | |
| 2 | Princeton | 12–2 | |
| 3 | Harvard | 11–3 | |
| 4 | Penn | 6–8 | NET: 162 |
| DNQ | Brown | 6–8 | NET: 184 |
| DNQ | Cornell | 3–11 | NET: 249 |
| DNQ | Yale | 3–11 | NET: 326 |
| DNQ | Dartmouth | 2–12 |
Schedule
| Session | Game | Time | Matchup | Score | Television | Attendance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Semifinals – Friday, March 14 | ||||||
| 1 | 1 | 4:30 pm | No. 1 Columbia vs. No. 4 Penn | 60–54 | ESPN+ | 1,114 |
| 2 | 7:30 pm | No. 2 Princeton vs. No. 3 Harvard | 67–70 | 458 | ||
| Championship – Saturday, March 15 | ||||||
| 2 | 3 | 5:30 pm | No. 1 Columbia vs. No. 3 Harvard | 71–74 | ESPNU | 1,326 |
| Game times in EDT. Rankings denote tournament seeding.[4] | ||||||
Bracket
| Semifinals Friday, March 14 ESPNU ESPN+ | Championship Saturday, March 15 ESPNU | ||||||||
| 1 | Columbia | 60 | |||||||
| 4 | Penn | 54 | |||||||
| 1 | Columbia | 71 | |||||||
| 3 | Harvard | 74 | |||||||
| 2 | Princeton | 67 | |||||||
| 3 | Harvard | 70 | |||||||
See also
References
- ^ "2025 Ivy League Men's & Women's Basketball Tournaments - Ivy League". ivyleague.com. Retrieved December 14, 2024.
- ^ "Brown to host 2025 Ivy Madness basketball tournaments". The Brown Daily Herald. Retrieved January 4, 2025.
- ^ "Tournament Seeding Procedure & Tie-Breakers". Ivy League. Retrieved March 15, 2019.
- ^ "TV Coverage".