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) |
| Attendance | 5,107 (1,702 per match) |
| Television | ESPN networks |
| 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",[1][2] was a single-elimination postseason tournament that determined the champion of the Ivy League for the 2024–25 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. It was the eighth edition of the tournament, and it was held March 15–16, 2025, at the Pizzitola Sports Center on the campus of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.[3][4] The top four finishers in the Ivy League regular season standings qualify for the tournament, which consists of three games. The tournament champions, 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.[5]
| 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.[6] | ||||||
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 Madness". Ivy League. Retrieved May 11, 2025.
- ^ Ellenberg, Caleb. "Fighting for the final spot — How Brown can make Ivy Madness". Brown Daily Herald. Retrieved May 11, 2025.
- ^ "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".
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