2018–19 Ivy League men's basketball season
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The 2018–19 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.
| 2018–19 Ivy League men's basketball season | |
|---|---|
| League | NCAA Division I |
| Sport | Basketball |
| Duration | January 5 – March 17, 2019 |
| Teams | 8 |
| TV partner | Ivy League Digital Network |
| Regular season | |
| Champions | Harvard and Yale |
| Season MVP | Miye Oni, Yale |
| 2019 Ivy League men's basketball tournament | |
| Champions | Yale |
| Runners-up | Harvard |
| Conf. | Overall | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Team | W | L | PCT | W | L | PCT | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| x-Harvard | 10 | – | 4 | .714 | 19 | – | 12 | .613 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| x-Yale † | 10 | – | 4 | .714 | 22 | – | 8 | .733 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Princeton | 8 | – | 6 | .571 | 16 | – | 12 | .571 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Penn | 7 | – | 7 | .500 | 19 | – | 12 | .613 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Cornell | 7 | – | 7 | .500 | 15 | – | 16 | .484 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Brown | 7 | – | 7 | .500 | 20 | – | 12 | .625 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Columbia | 5 | – | 9 | .357 | 10 | – | 18 | .357 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dartmouth | 2 | – | 12 | .143 | 11 | – | 19 | .367 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| † 2019 Ivy League tournament winner x - Ivy League co-champions | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Harvard and Yale co-shared the league title after finishing the regular season 10–4 within the Ivy League. Yale earned the league's bid to the 2019 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament after defeating Princeton in the semifinals and Harvard in the finals of the inaugural conference tournament.
Miye Oni of Yale was named Ivy League Men's Basketball Player of the Year.[1]
All-Ivy Teams
| First Team All-Ivy | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| School | Class | Position | |
| A. J. Brodeur* | Penn | Junior | Forward |
| Bryce Aiken* | Harvard | Junior | Guard |
| Alex Copeland* | Yale | Senior | Guard |
| Matt Morgan* | Cornell | Senior | Guard |
| Miye Oni* | Yale | Junior | Guard |
| Myles Stephens* | Princeton | Senior | Guard |
*Unanimous
| Second Team All-Ivy | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| School | Class | Position | |
| Richmond Aririguzoh | Princeton | Junior | Center |
| Gabe Stefanini | Columbia | Sophomore | Guard |
| Devon Goodman | Penn | Junior | Guard |
| Chris Knight | Dartmouth | Sophomore | Forward |
| Obi Okolie | Brown | Senior | Guard |
| Tamenang Choh | Brown | Sophomore | Forward |
NCAA tournament
| Seed | Region | School | First Four | Round of 64 | Round of 32 | Sweet 16 | Elite Eight | Final Four | Championship |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | West | Yale | n/a | Eliminated by LSU, 79–74 | |||||
| W–L (%): | 0–0 – | 0–1 .000 | 0–0 – | 0–0 – | 0–0 – | 0–0 – | 0–0 –Total:0-1 .000 |