2019 Ivy League women's basketball tournament

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2019 Ivy League women's basketball tournament
Classification Division I
Season 201819
Teams4
Site Payne Whitney Gymnasium
New Haven, Connecticut
Champions Princeton (2nd title)
Winning coach Courtney Banghart (2nd title)
MVP Bella Alarie (Princeton)
Television ESPNU, ESPN3
  2018
2022  
2018–19 Ivy League women's basketball standings
ConfOverall
TeamW L PCTW L PCT
Penn 122 .857246  .800
Princeton *†122 .8572210  .688
Harvard 95 .6431712  .586
Yale 68 .4291613  .552
Dartmouth 68 .4291314  .481
Cornell 68 .4291214  .462
Columbia 410 .286819  .296
Brown 113 .071921  .300
2019 Ivy League Tournament winner
* Tournament #1 seed
As of March 23, 2019
Rankings from AP Poll

The 2019 Ivy League women's basketball tournament was a women's college conference tournament held March 16 and 17, 2019, at the Payne Whitney Gymnasium on the campus of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. Princeton defeated Penn to earn the Ivy League's automatic bid to the 2019 NCAA tournament. [1] [2]

Contents

Seeds

Only the top four teams in the 2018–19 Ivy League regular-season standings will participate in the tournament and be seeded according to their records in conference play, resulting in a Shaughnessy playoff.

SeedSchoolOverallConferenceTiebreaker
1 Princeton 12–220–92–0 vs. Harvard
2 Penn 12–222–51–1 vs. Harvard
3 Harvard 9–516–11
4 Cornell 6–812–133–1 vs. Yale, Dartmouth

Schedule

SessionGameTime*Matchup#TelevisionAttendance
Semifinals – Saturday, March 16
116:00 PM#1 Princeton vs. #4 Cornell ESPN3
28:30 PM#2 Penn vs. #3 Harvard
Championship – Sunday, March 17
234:00 PM#1 Princeton vs. #2 Penn ESPNU

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

Bracket

Semifinals
Saturday, March 16
Payne Whitney Gymnasium
Final
Sunday, March 17
Payne Whitney Gymnasium
      
1 Princeton68
4 Cornell 47
1Princeton65
2 Penn 54
2 Penn91
3 Harvard 62

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References

  1. "2019 Ivy League Men's & Women's Basketball Tournaments" (Press release). Ivy League. Retrieved December 16, 2018.
  2. "Alarie helps Princeton women beat Penn to win Ivy title". USA TODAY. Retrieved 2019-03-18.