2020 Ivy League men's basketball tournament

The 2020 Ivy League men's basketball tournament was the scheduled postseason men's basketball tournament for the Ivy League of the 2019–20 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. It was scheduled for March 14 and 15, 2020, at the Lavietes Pavilion on the campus of Harvard University in Boston.[1][lower-alpha 1] On March 10, 2020, the Ivy League announced it had cancelled the tournament due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Ivy League awarded Yale, which finished the season in first place, the league's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament.[2]

2020 Ivy League men's basketball tournament
ClassificationDivision I
Season2019–20
Teams4
SiteLavietes Pavilion
Boston, MA
TelevisionESPNU, ESPN2
2019–20 Ivy League men's basketball standings
ConfOverall
TeamW L PCTW L PCT
x-Yale11–3 .78623–7  .767
Harvard10–4 .71421–8  .724
Princeton9–5 .64314–13  .519
Penn8–6 .57116–11  .593
Brown8–6 .57115–12  .556
Dartmouth5–9 .35712–17  .414
Cornell4–10 .2867–20  .259
Columbia1–13 .0716–24  .200
x – Ivy League champions
Ivy League Tournament canceled due to COVID-19 pandemic

Seeds

The top four teams in the Ivy League regular-season standings qualify for the tournament and are 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 Yale 11–3
2 Harvard 10–4
3 Princeton 9–5
4 Penn 8–6 1-1 vs. Yale, while Brown 0-2 vs. Yale

Schedule
Session Game Time Matchup Score Television Attendance
Semifinals – Saturday, March 14
1 1 11:00 am No. 1 Yale vs. No. 4 Penn Cancelled
2 2:00 pm No. 2 Harvard vs. No. 3 Princeton
Championship – Sunday, March 15
2 3 12:00 pm Winner Game 1 vs. Winner Game 2 Cancelled
Game times in Eastern Time. Rankings denote tournament seeding.[4]

Bracket

Had the tournament gone on as scheduled, this would have been the bracket:

Semifinals
Saturday, March 14
ESPNU 		Championship
Sunday, March 15
ESPN2
      
1 Yale
4 Penn
 
 
2 Harvard
3 Princeton

[5]

See also

Footnotes
  1. Although Harvard's overall administration and undergraduate campus are in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the athletic department offices and almost all athletic venues, including Lavietes Pavilion, lie within the city limits of Boston.

References
  1. "Lavietes Pavilion".
  2. "Ivy League cancels conference basketball tournaments because of coronavirus". ESPN.com. March 10, 2020.
  3. "Tournament Seeding Procedure & Tie-Breakers". Ivy League. Archived from the original on September 12, 2020. Retrieved March 15, 2019.
  4. "TV Coverage".
  5. "2020 Ivy League Men's and Women's Basketball Tournaments - Ivy League".
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