College basketball tournament
| 2018 Ivy League men's basketball tournament | |
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| Classification | Division I |
| Season | 2017–18 |
| Teams | 4 |
| Site | Palestra Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| Champions | Penn (1st title) |
| Winning coach | Steve Donahue (1st title) |
| MVP | A. J. Brodeur (Penn) |
| Television | ESPNU, ESPN2 |
| Ivy League men's basketball tournaments← 20172019 → | |
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| Team | W | L | PCT | W | L | PCT | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| x-Harvard | 12 | – | 2 | .857 | 18 | – | 14 | .563 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| x-Penn † | 12 | – | 2 | .857 | 24 | – | 9 | .727 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Yale | 9 | – | 5 | .643 | 16 | – | 15 | .516 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Cornell | 6 | – | 8 | .429 | 12 | – | 16 | .429 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Princeton | 5 | – | 9 | .357 | 13 | – | 16 | .448 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Columbia | 5 | – | 9 | .357 | 8 | – | 19 | .296 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Brown | 4 | – | 10 | .286 | 11 | – | 16 | .407 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dartmouth | 3 | – | 11 | .214 | 7 | – | 20 | .259 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| x – Ivy League co-champions | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| † 2018 Ivy League Tournament winner | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The 2018 Ivy League men's basketball tournament was the postseason men's basketball tournament for the Ivy League of the 2017–18 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. It was held on March 10 and 11, 2018, at the Palestra on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. Penn defeated Harvard in the championship game to win the tournament and received the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament. Harvard earned an automatic bid to the 2018 National Invitation Tournament.
Seeds
Only the top four teams in the Ivy League regular-season standings qualify for the tournament and were seeded according to their records in conference play, resulting in a Shaughnessy playoff.
| Seed | School | Record | Tiebreaker |
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| 1 | Harvard | 12–2 | 1–1 vs Penn, 2–0 vs Yale |
| 2 | Pennsylvania | 12–2 | 1–1 vs Harvard, 1–1 vs Yale |
| 3 | Yale | 9–5 | |
| 4 | Cornell | 6–8 |
Schedule
| Session | Game | Time | Matchup | Score | Television | Attendance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Semifinals – Saturday, March 10 | ||||||
| 1 | 1 | 12:30 pm | No. 1 Harvard vs. No. 4 Cornell | 74–55 | ESPNU | |
| 2 | 3:00 pm | No. 2 Penn vs. No. 3 Yale | 80–57 | |||
| Championship – Sunday, March 11 | ||||||
| 2 | 3 | 12:00 pm | No. 1 Harvard vs. No. 2 Penn | 65–68 | ESPN2 | |
| Game times in Eastern Time. Rankings denote tournament seeding. | ||||||
Bracket
| Semifinals Saturday, March 10 The Palestra | Final Sunday, March 11 The Palestra | ||||||||
| 1 | Harvard | 74 | |||||||
| 4 | Cornell | 55 | |||||||
| 1 | Harvard | 65 | |||||||
| 2 | Penn | 68 | |||||||
| 2 | Penn | 80 | |||||||
| 3 | Yale | 57 | |||||||
See also
References
- "Penn Wins Ivy League Tournament". Ivy League. March 11, 2018. Retrieved March 12, 2018.
- "No. 16 Penn To Face No. 1 Kansas In NCAA First-Round". Ivy League. March 11, 2018. Retrieved March 12, 2018.
- "Ivy League".
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