2023 Ivy League men's basketball tournament

2023 Ivy League men's basketball tournament
Postgame celebration after Princeton won the title
Classification	Division I
Season	2022–23
Teams	4
Site	Jadwin Gymnasium Princeton, NJ
Champions	Princeton (2nd title)
Winning coach	Mitch Henderson (2nd title)
MVP	Tosan Evbuomwan (Princeton)
Attendance	12,276
Television	ESPNU, ESPN2
Ivy League men's basketball tournaments

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 winner, the Princeton Tigers, received the Ivy League's automatic bid to the 2023 NCAA Tournament.

2022–23 Ivy League men's basketball standings

v t e	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		PCT			W		L		PCT
Yale	10	–	4		.714			21	–	9		.700
Princeton †	10	–	4		.714			23	–	9		.719
Penn	9	–	5		.643			17	–	13		.567
Cornell	7	–	7		.500			17	–	11		.607
Brown	7	–	7		.500			14	–	13		.519
Dartmouth	6	–	8		.429			10	–	18		.357
Harvard	5	–	9		.357			14	–	14		.500
Columbia	2	–	12		.143			7	–	22		.241
† 2023 Ivy League tournament winner

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.[2]

Seed	School	Record	Tiebreaker
1	Yale	10–4	2–0 vs Princeton
2	Princeton	10–4	0–2 vs Yale
3	Penn	9–5
4	Cornell	7–7	1–1 vs Yale
DNQ	Brown	7–7	0–2 vs Yale
DNQ	Dartmouth	6–8
DNQ	Harvard	5–9
DNQ	Columbia	2–12

Schedule

Session	Game	Time	Matchup	Score	Television	Attendance
Semifinals – Saturday, March 11
1	1	11:00 am	No. 1 Yale vs. No. 4 Cornell	80–60	ESPNU	4,160
	2	1:30 pm	No. 2 Princeton vs. No. 3 Penn	77–70		4,509
Championship – Sunday, March 12
2	3	12:00 pm	No. 1 Yale vs. No. 2 Princeton	65–74	ESPN2	3,607
Game times in Eastern Time. Rankings denote tournament seeding.[3]

Bracket

	Semifinals Saturday, March 11 ESPNU					Championship Sunday, March 12 ESPN2
	1	Yale	80
	4	Cornell	60
						1	Yale	65
						2	Princeton	74
	2	Princeton	77
	3	Penn	70

See also

• 2023 Ivy League women's basketball tournament

References

1. "2023 Ivy League Men's & Women's Basketball Tournaments - Ivy League". ivyleague.com. Retrieved January 4, 2023.
2. "Tournament Seeding Procedure & Tie-Breakers". Ivy League. Retrieved March 15, 2019.
3. "TV Coverage".