2020 Ivy League men's basketball tournament

2020 Ivy League men's basketball tournament
2020 Ivy League men's basketball tournament
Classification	Division I
Season	2019–20
Teams	4
Site	Lavietes Pavilion; Boston, MA
Television	ESPNU, ESPN2
	Ivy League men's basketball tournaments ← 2019 2022 →

2019–20 Ivy League men's basketball standings
v t e	Conf				Overall
Team	W		L	PCT	W		L	PCT
x-Yale	11	–	3	.786	23	–	7	.767
Harvard	10	–	4	.714	21	–	8	.724
Princeton	9	–	5	.643	14	–	13	.519
Penn	8	–	6	.571	16	–	11	.593
Brown	8	–	6	.571	15	–	12	.556
Dartmouth	5	–	9	.357	12	–	17	.414
Cornell	4	–	10	.286	7	–	20	.259
Columbia	1	–	13	.071	6	–	24	.200
x – Ivy League champions Ivy League tournament canceled due to COVID-19 pandemic

The 2020 Ivy League men's basketball tournament was the scheduled postseason men's basketball tournament for the Ivy League of the 2019–20 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. It was scheduled for March 14 and 15, 2020, at the Lavietes Pavilion on the campus of Harvard University in Boston.^[1]^[a] On March 10, 2020, the Ivy League announced it had cancelled the tournament due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Ivy League awarded Yale, which finished the season in first place, the league's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament.^[2]

Seeds

The top four teams in the Ivy League regular-season standings qualify for the tournament and are 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	11–3
2	Harvard	10–4
3	Princeton	9–5
4	Penn	8–6	1-1 vs. Yale, while Brown 0-2 vs. Yale

Schedule

Session	Game	Time	Matchup	Score
Semifinals – Saturday, March 14
1	1	11:00 am	No. 1 Yale vs. No. 4 Penn	Cancelled
1	2	2:00 pm	No. 2 Harvard vs. No. 3 Princeton
Championship – Sunday, March 15
2	3	12:00 pm	Winner Game 1 vs. Winner Game 2		Cancelled
Game times in Eastern Time. Rankings denote tournament seeding.^[4]

Bracket

Had the tournament gone on as scheduled, this would have been the bracket:

Semifinals Saturday, March 14 ESPNU		Championship Sunday, March 15 ESPN2

1	Yale

4	Penn



2	Harvard

3	Princeton

^[5]

Footnotes

^ Although Harvard's overall administration and undergraduate campus are in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the athletic department offices and almost all athletic venues, including Lavietes Pavilion, lie within the city limits of Boston.