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The 2024 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 2023–24 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. It was held March 16 and 17, 2024, at the Levien Gymnasium on the campus of Columbia University in New York City. [1]
The 2023 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 2022–23 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. It was held on March 11 and 12, 2023, at the Jadwin Gymnasium on the campus of Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey. [1]
The Ivy League men's basketball tournament is the postseason conference tournament in men's basketball for the Ivy League. It was first held in 2017, and is held alongside the Ivy women's tournament, also introduced in 2017, at the same venue. The overall event is currently marketed as Ivy Madness.
The Ivy League began a post-season tournament in 2017. The winner receives the league's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament. In 2020, the Ivy League canceled its tournament during the COVID-19 pandemic and awarded Yale an automatic bid to the NCAA tournament, the latter of which was later also cancelled.
The Tigers finished the 2022–23 season 23–9, 10–4 in Ivy League play to finish as Ivy League regular season co-champions. [1] In the Ivy League tournament, they defeated Penn in the semifinals [2] and Yale in the championship game, earning the Ivy League's automatic bid into the NCAA tournament. [3]
The team has appeared in seven NCAA Tournaments overall (in 1949, 1957, 1962, 2016, 2019, 2022 and 2024). On March 17, 2016, Yale defeated the Baylor Bears 79–75 in the first round of the NCAA Tournament for the school's first Tournament victory. In 2019 Yale beat Harvard, 97–85 to win its first Ivy League Men's Basketball Tournament.
The 2022–23 Ivy League men's basketball season marked the continuation of the annual tradition of competitive basketball among Ivy League members. The tradition began when the league was formed during the 1956–57 season and its history extends to the predecessor Eastern Intercollegiate Basketball League, which was formed in 1902.
The Bulldogs finished the 2022–23 season 20–7, 10–4 in Ivy League play to finish in a tie for 1st place. [1] In the Ivy Tournament, they defeated Cornell in the semifinals, [2] before losing to Princeton in the championship game. [3] They received an automatic bid to the NIT, losing to Vanderbilt in the first round. [4]