Ivy League baseball tournament

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Ivy League Baseball Tournament
Conference Baseball Championship
Ivy league simple logo.png
Sport College baseball
Conference Ivy League
Number of teams4
FormatDouble Elimination
Current stadiumRegular Season Champion
Last contest 2023
Current champion Columbia (7)
Most championships Princeton (8)
Official website ivyleague.com/baseball
Host stadiums
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Host locations
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The Ivy League Baseball Tournament is the conference baseball championship of the NCAA Division I Ivy League. The top four finishers from the round-robin regular season participate in a double elimination tournament held at the site of the regular season champion, with the winner earning the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA Division I Baseball Championship. Penn won the inaugural Ivy League tournament in 2023.

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From 1993 until 2022 (except for 2020 and 2021 when the series was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic [1] ), the league's top two teams would play in a best-of-three series at the end of the regular season, which was known as the Ivy League Championship Series.

History

In 1930, six of the eight Ivy League teams formed the Eastern Intercollegiate Baseball League. Harvard joined in 1934, while Brown, Army and Navy joined in 1948. When Army and Navy joined the Patriot League for the 1993 season, the Ivy League began sponsoring baseball.

From 1993 to 2017, the teams are split into two divisions; the Mid-Atlantic members are in the Lou Gehrig Division, and the New England members are in the Red Rolfe Division. The winners of each division would meet in a best-of-three championship series to determine the Ivy League's automatic bid to the NCAA Division I baseball tournament.

The divisions were dissolved in 2018, with the top two teams from the regular season meeting in the championship series. The team with the best regular season record is named the Ivy League champion. However, the winner of the championship series still gained the league's automatic bid to the NCAA Division I baseball tournament. The event was canceled for 2020 and 2021 due to the coronavirus pandemic. [1]

Starting in 2023, the Ivy League would replace the series format with a four-team double elimination tournament held at the site of the regular season champion. The winner of the tournament would receive an automatic berth to the NCAA tournament. [2]

Champions

For a list of EIBL champions, see List of Eastern Intercollegiate Baseball League Champions

By year

The following is a list of conference champions and sites by year. [3]

Championship Series

YearChampionRunner-upGamesVenue
1993 Yale Columbia 2 Palmer Field • Middletown, CT
1994 Yale Penn 3Palmer Field • Middletown, CT
1995 Penn Yale 2 Yale Field • New Haven, CT
1996 Princeton Harvard 2 Bill Clarke Field • Princeton, NJ
1997 Harvard Princeton 3 Joseph J. O'Donnell Field • Boston, MA
1998 Harvard Princeton 2Yale Field • New Haven, CT
1999 Harvard Princeton 3Joseph J. O'Donnell Field • Boston, MA
2000 Princeton Dartmouth 2Bill Clarke Field • Princeton, NJ
2001 Princeton Dartmouth 3 Red Rolfe Field at Biondi Park • Hanover, NH
2002 Harvard Princeton 2Bill Clarke Field • Princeton, NJ
2003 Princeton Harvard 3Bill Clarke Field • Princeton, NJ
2004 Princeton Dartmouth 2Red Rolfe Field at Biondi Park • Hanover, NH
2005 Harvard Cornell 2Joseph J. O'Donnell Field • Boston, MA
2006 Princeton Harvard 2Joseph J. O'Donnell Field • Boston, MA
2007 Brown Penn 2 Murray Stadium • Providence, RI
2008 Columbia Dartmouth 3Red Rolfe Field at Biondi Park • Hanover, NH
2009 Dartmouth Cornell 3Red Rolfe Field at Biondi Park • Hanover, NH
2010 Dartmouth Columbia 3 Robertson Field at Satow Stadium • New York, NY
2011 Princeton Dartmouth 3Bill Clarke Field • Princeton, NJ
2012 Cornell Dartmouth 3 Hoy Field • Ithaca, NY
2013 Columbia Dartmouth 2Robertson Field at Satow Stadium • New York, NY
2014 Columbia Dartmouth 2Robertson Field at Satow Stadium • New York, NY
2015 Columbia Dartmouth 3Robertson Field at Satow Stadium • New York, NY
2016 Princeton Yale 3Bill Clarke Field • Princeton, NJ
2017 Yale Penn 2Yale Field • New Haven, CT
2018 Columbia Yale 2Yale Field • New Haven, CT
2019 Harvard Columbia 2Joseph J. O'Donnell Field • Boston, MA
2020Canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic
2021Canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic [1]
2022 Columbia Penn 3Meiklejohn Stadium • Philadelphia, PA

Tournament

YearChampionRunner-upVenue
2023 Penn Princeton Meiklejohn Stadium • Philadelphia, PA
2024 Penn Cornell Robertson Field at Satow Stadium • New York, NY
Yogi Berra Stadium • Little Falls, NJ [a]
2025 Columbia Harvard Bush Field • New Haven, CT

By school

The following is a list of conference champions listed by school.

ProgramApp.TitlesWinning years
Princeton 138 1996, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2011, 2016
Columbia 117 2008, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2018, 2022, 2025
Harvard 116 1997, 1998, 1999, 2002, 2005, 2019
Yale 73 1993, 1994, 2017
Dartmouth 112 2009, 2010
Penn 83 1995, 2023, 2024
Brown 11 2007
Cornell 31 2012

Notes

  1. ↑ Due to field maintenace issues that deemed Robertson Field at Satow Stadium unplayable after Game 3 of the 2024 Ivy League tournament, the remainder of the tournament was moved to Yogi Berra Stadium on the campus of Montclair State University. [4]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Ivy League Updates Intercollegiate Athletics Plan for Spring Competition and Training". Ivy League. February 18, 2021. Retrieved February 18, 2021.
  2. ↑ "Harvard, Penn, Princeton Secure Ivy Baseball Tournament Spots". Ivy League. Retrieved 23 May 2023.
  3. ↑ The Ivy League Baseball Records Book 2011-12 (PDF). Ivy League. p. 17. Retrieved June 6, 2012.
  4. ↑ "Ivy League Baseball Tournament to Move to Montclair State". Ivy League. May 18, 2024. Retrieved 19 May 2025.
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