2002 Ivy League Baseball Championship Series

The 2002 Ivy League Baseball Championship Series took place at Bill Clarke Field in Princeton, New Jersey on May 11, 2002. The series matched the regular season champions of each of the league's two divisions. Harvard, the winner of the series, claimed their fourth title and the Ivy League's automatic berth in the 2002 NCAA Division I baseball tournament. Harvard made their fifth appearance in the series, and faced Princeton for the fifth time in seventh years. Harvard also won in 1997, 1998, and 1999.[2] It was Princeton's seventh appearance in the Championship Series, all of which were consecutive. Harvard won a playoff game against Brown on May 8 in Cambridge, Massachusetts to advance to the Championship Series.

2002 Ivy League
baseball tournament
Teams2
FormatBest of three series
Finals site
ChampionsHarvard (4th title)
Winning coachJoe Walsh (4th title)
2002 Ivy League baseball standings
ConfOverall
TeamW L PCTW L PCT
Lou Gehrig
Princeton  x 137 .6502123 .477
Penn   119 .5501722 .436
Columbia   1010 .5002225 .468
Cornell   614 .3001530 .333
Red Rolfe
Harvard  xy 137 .6502026 .435
Brown  x 137 .6502524 .510
Dartmouth   911 .4502120 .512
Yale   515 .2501227 .308
x Division champion
Championship Series champion
y Invited to the NCAA tournament
As of June 30, 2002[1]
Rankings from Collegiate Baseball

Results

Finals
    
Harvard 5 2
Princeton 1 1

References

  1. "2018 Baseball Record Book" (PDF). Ivy League. Retrieved June 3, 2018.
  2. 2018 Baseball Record Book (PDF). Ivy League. Retrieved June 5, 2018.
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