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]
2019 Ivy League women's basketball tournament | |
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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 |
Conf | Overall | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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
editOnly 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 |
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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
editSession | Game | Time* | Matchup# | Television | Attendance |
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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
editSemifinals 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 |
References
edit- ^ "2019 Ivy League Men's & Women's Basketball Tournaments" (Press release). Ivy League. Retrieved December 16, 2018.
- ^ "Alarie helps Princeton women beat Penn to win Ivy title". USA TODAY. Retrieved March 18, 2019.