2024 Ivy League men's basketball tournament explained

Year:2024
Conference:Ivy League
Division:I
Gender:Men's
Teams:4
Arena:Levien Gymnasium
City:New York City
Champions:Yale
Titlecount:3rd
Coach:James Jones
Coachcount:3rd
Television:ESPNU, ESPNews, ESPN2

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:

SeedSchoolRecordTiebreaker
1Princeton12–2
2Yale11–3NET Ranking 86
3Cornell11–3NET Ranking 88
4Brown8–6
DNQHarvard5–9
DNQColumbia4–10
DNQPenn3–11
DNQDartmouth2–12

Schedule

SessionGameTimeMatchupScoreTelevisionAttendance
Semifinals – Saturday, March 16
1111:00 amNo. 1 Princeton vs. No. 4 Brown81–90ESPNU2,612
22:00 pmNo. 2 Yale vs. No. 3 Cornell69–57ESPNews2,605
Championship – Sunday, March 17
2312:00 pmNo. 4 Brown vs. No. 2 Yale61–62ESPN22,278
Game times in Eastern Time. Rankings denote tournament seeding.[3]

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 2024 Ivy League Men's & Women's Basketball Tournaments - Ivy League . 2023-11-25 . ivyleague.com . en.
  2. Web site: Tournament Seeding Procedure & Tie-Breakers . March 15, 2019 . Ivy League.
  3. Web site: TV Coverage .