2019–20 Harvard Crimson men's basketball team explained

Mode:Basketball
Year:2019–20
Prev Year:2018–19
Next Year:2021–22
Team:Harvard Crimson
Conference:Ivy League
Short Conf:Ivy
Record:21–8
Conf Record:10–4
Hc Year:13th
Asst Coach1:Brian Eskildsen
Asst Coach2:Donny Guerinoni
Asst Coach3:Michael Sotsky

The 2019–20 Harvard Crimson men's basketball team represent Harvard University in the 2019–20 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Crimson, led by 13th-year head coach Tommy Amaker, play their home games at the Lavietes Pavilion in Boston, Massachusetts as members of the Ivy League.

Previous season

The Crimson finished the 2018–19 season 19–12 overall, 10–4 in Ivy League play, finishing as co-regular season champions, alongside Yale. In the Ivy League tournament, they defeated Penn in the semifinals,[1] before losing to Yale in the championship game.[2] As a regular season league champion who failed to win their league tournament, they received an automatic bid to the NIT, where they defeated Georgetown in the first round,[3] before falling to NC State in the second round.[4]

Schedule and results

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Notes and References

  1. News: Men's Basketball Defeats Penn, 66-58, Advances to Ivy League tournament championship. Harvard. November 7, 2019. en.
  2. News: Aiken Scores Tournament-Record 38, But Men's Basketball Falls to Yale, 97-85, In Ivy tournament championship. Harvard. November 7, 2019. en.
  3. News: Men's Basketball Advances in NIT with 71-68 Win Over Georgetown. Harvard. November 7, 2019. en.
  4. News: Men's Basketball Falls In Heartbreaker at NC State, 78-77, in Second Round of NIT. Harvard. November 7, 2019. en. April 1, 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190401014814/https://www.gocrimson.com/sports/mbkb/2018-19/releases/20190324ylqp7r. dead.
  5. News: 2019-20 Men's Basketball Schedule. Harvard. November 7, 2019. en. December 5, 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20191205030830/https://www.gocrimson.com/sports/mbkb/2019-20/schedule. dead.