2019 Ivy League women's basketball tournament

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.

2019 Ivy League women's basketball tournament
Classification	Division I
Season	2018–19
Teams	4
Site	Payne Whitney Gymnasium New Haven, Connecticut
Champions	Princeton (2nd title)
Winning coach	Courtney Banghart (2nd title)
MVP	Bella Alarie (Princeton)
Television	ESPNU, ESPN3
Ivy League women's basketball tournaments

2018–19 Ivy League women's basketball standings

	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		PCT			W		L		PCT
Penn	12	–	2		.857			24	–	6		.800
Princeton *†	12	–	2		.857			22	–	10		.688
Harvard	9	–	5		.643			17	–	12		.586
Yale	6	–	8		.429			16	–	13		.552
Dartmouth	6	–	8		.429			13	–	14		.481
Cornell	6	–	8		.429			12	–	14		.462
Columbia	4	–	10		.286			8	–	19		.296
Brown	1	–	13		.071			9	–	21		.300
† 2019 Ivy League Tournament winner * Tournament #1 seed As of March 23, 2019 Rankings from AP Poll

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.

Seed	School	Overall	Conference	Tiebreaker
1	Princeton	12–2	20–9	2–0 vs. Harvard
2	Penn	12–2	22–5	1–1 vs. Harvard
3	Harvard	9–5	16–11
4	Cornell	6–8	12–13	3–1 vs. Yale, Dartmouth

Schedule

Session	Game	Time*	Matchup#	Television	Attendance
Semifinals – Saturday, March 16
1	1	6:00 PM	#1 Princeton vs. #4 Cornell	ESPN3
	2	8:30 PM	#2 Penn vs. #3 Harvard
Championship – Sunday, March 17
2	3	4:00 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	Princeton	68
	4	Cornell	47
						1	Princeton	65
						2	Penn	54
	2	Penn	91
	3	Harvard	62