2020 Ivy League women's basketball tournament explained

Year:2020
Conference:Ivy League
Division:I
Gender:Women's
Teams:4
City:Boston, Massachusetts
Television:ESPN+, ESPNews
Different Next:2022

The 2020 Ivy League women's basketball tournament was scheduled to be the women's college conference tournament held March 13 and 14, 2020, at the Lavietes Pavilion on the campus of Harvard University in Boston. The winner was to earn the Ivy League's automatic bid to the 2020 NCAA tournament.[1] On March 10, 2020, the Ivy League announced it had cancelled the tournament due to the COVID-19 pandemic. As a result of winning the regular season title, Princeton was named the Ivy League's automatic qualifier for the NCAA Tournament.[2]

Seeds

Only the top four teams in the 2019–20 Ivy League regular-season standings were to participate in the tournament and be seeded according to their records in conference play, resulting in a Shaughnessy playoff.

SeedSchoolOverallConference
1Princeton14–026–1
2Penn10–420–7
3Yale9–518–8
4Columbia8–617–10

Notes and References

  1. Ivy Madness Fields Set for Next Weekend in Boston. Ivy League. March 7, 2020.
  2. Web site: Ivy League cancels conference basketball tournaments because of coronavirus . ESPN.com. March 10, 2020 .