2017 Ivy League men's basketball tournament

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2017 Ivy League men's basketball tournament
Classification Division I
Season 201617
Teams4
Site Palestra
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Champions Princeton (1st title)
Winning coach Mitch Henderson (1st title)
2018  
2016–17 Ivy League men's basketball standings
ConfOverall
TeamW L PCTW L PCT
x-Princeton140 1.000237  .767
Harvard 104 .7141810  .643
Yale 95 .6431811  .621
Penn 68 .4291315  .464
Columbia 59 .3571116  .407
Brown 410 .2861317  .433
Cornell 410 .286821  .276
Dartmouth 410 .286720  .259
x – Ivy League champions
2017 Ivy League Tournament winner

The 2017 Ivy League men's basketball tournament was a postseason conference tournament for the Ivy League. The tournament was March 11 and 12, 2017, at the Palestra on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.

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The tournament marked the first postseason tournament held by the Ivy League in men's basketball however the Ivy League continues to recognize the team or teams with the best record following the regular season to be the Ivy League Champion. In the tournament, league champion Princeton defeated Yale in the championship game to win the tournament. As a result, Princeton received the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament.

Background

The Ivy League was the last NCAA Division I conference to hold a postseason tournament, instead choosing to award its automatic bids to the NCAA men's and women's tournaments to its regular-season champions; in the event that two teams finished tied atop the standings, Ivy League bylaws allowed for a one-game playoff to determine the recipient of the automatic bid, and in exceptionally rare cases, a three-team single-elimination tournament would be scheduled if three teams tied atop the standings (the Ivy League never had more than three regular season co-champions in one season). The Ivy League has historically resisted postseason play in all of its sports.

In March 2016, the League announced that it would institute men's and women's conference tournaments beginning with the 2016–17 season. Both tournaments would initially be held at the same site. The conference also reduced by one the number of regular-season games that its members are allowed to schedule. [1]

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.

SeedSchoolConf. Record
1 Princeton 14–0
2 Harvard 10–4
3 Yale 9–5
4 Penn 6–8

Schedule

SessionGameTime*MatchupScoreTelevisionAttendance
Semifinals – Saturday, March 11
111:30 pmNo. 1 Princeton vs. No. 4 Penn72–66OT ESPNU
24:00 pmNo. 2 Harvard vs. No. 3 Yale71–73
Championship – Sunday, March 12
2312:00 pmNo. 1 Princeton vs. No. 3 Yale71–59 ESPN2

*Game times in Eastern Time. Rankings denote tournament seeding.

Bracket

Semifinals
Saturday, March 11
Final
Sunday, March 12
      
1 Princeton72*
4 Penn 64
1 Princeton71
3 Yale 59
2 Harvard 71
3 Yale73

All-Tournament team

Source [2]

Myles Stephens, Princeton
Steven Cook, Princeton
Sam Downey, Yale
Bryce Aiken, Harvard
Ryan Betley, Penn

See also

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References

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  2. "Princeton Claims Inaugural Ivy League Tournament Championship". IvyLeagueSports.com. March 12, 2017. Archived from the original on March 15, 2017. Retrieved March 15, 2017.