2025 Ivy League men's basketball tournament
| 2025 Ivy League men's basketball tournament | |
|---|---|
| Classification | Division I |
| Season | 2024–25 |
| Teams | 4 |
| Site | Pizzitola Sports Center Providence, Rhode Island |
| Champions | Yale (4th title) |
| Winning coach | James Jones (4th title) |
| MVP | John Poulakidas (Yale) |
| Television | ESPNU, ESPNews, ESPN2 |
| Conf. | Overall | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Team | W | L | PCT | W | L | PCT | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Yale † | 13 | – | 1 | .929 | 22 | – | 8 | .733 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Cornell | 9 | – | 5 | .643 | 18 | – | 11 | .621 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dartmouth | 8 | – | 6 | .571 | 14 | – | 14 | .500 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Princeton | 8 | – | 6 | .571 | 19 | – | 11 | .633 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Harvard | 7 | – | 7 | .500 | 12 | – | 15 | .444 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Brown | 6 | – | 8 | .429 | 14 | – | 13 | .519 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Penn | 4 | – | 10 | .286 | 8 | – | 19 | .296 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Columbia | 1 | – | 13 | .071 | 12 | – | 15 | .444 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| † 2025 Ivy League tournament winner | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The 2025 Ivy League Men's Basketball Tournament, popularly referred to as "Ivy Madness", was the postseason men's basketball tournament for the Ivy League of the 2024–25 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. It was held March 15 and 16, 2025, at the Pizzitola Sports Center on the campus of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.[1][2] The winner, Yale, received the Ivy League's automatic bid to the 2025 NCAA Tournament.
Seeds
[edit]The top four teams in the Ivy League regular-season standings will qualify for the tournament and will be 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 | 13–1 | |
| 2 | Cornell | 9–5 | |
| 3 | Dartmouth | 8–6 | 1–1 vs. Cornell |
| 4 | Princeton | 8–6 | 0–2 vs. Cornell |
| DNQ | Harvard | 7–7 | |
| DNQ | Brown | 6–8 | |
| DNQ | Penn | 4–10 | |
| DNQ | Columbia | 1–13 |
Schedule
[edit]| Session | Game | Time | Matchup | Score | Television | Attendance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Semifinals – Saturday, March 15 | ||||||
| 1 | 1 | 11:00 am | No. 1 Yale vs. No. 4 Princeton | 59–57 | ESPNU | 1,684 |
| 2 | 2:00 pm | No. 2 Cornell vs. No. 3 Dartmouth | 87–71 | ESPNews | 1,684 | |
| Championship – Sunday, March 16 | ||||||
| 2 | 3 | 12:00 pm | No. 1 Yale vs. No. 2 Cornell | 90–84 | ESPN2 | 1,739 |
| Game times in EDT. Rankings denote tournament seeding.[4] | ||||||
Bracket
[edit]| Semifinals Saturday, March 15 ESPNU ESPNews | Championship Sunday, March 16 ESPN2 | ||||||||
| 1 | Yale | 59 | |||||||
| 4 | Princeton | 57 | |||||||
| 1 | Yale | 90 | |||||||
| 2 | Cornell | 84 | |||||||
| 2 | Cornell | 87 | |||||||
| 3 | Dartmouth | 71 | |||||||
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "2025 Ivy League Men's & Women's Basketball Tournaments - Ivy League". ivyleague.com. Retrieved December 14, 2024.
- ^ "Brown to host 2025 Ivy Madness basketball tournaments". The Brown Daily Herald. Retrieved January 4, 2025.
- ^ "Tournament Seeding Procedure & Tie-Breakers". Ivy League. Retrieved March 15, 2019.
- ^ "TV Coverage".