2026 Ivy League men's basketball tournament

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2026 Ivy League men's basketball tournament
ClassificationDivision I
Season202526
Teams4
SiteNewman Arena
Ithaca, New York
ChampionsPenn (2nd title)
Winning coachFran McCaffery (1st title)
MVPTJ Power (Penn)
TelevisionESPNU, ESPNews, ESPN2
 2025
2027 
2025–26 Ivy League men's basketball standings
Conf.Overall
TeamW L PCTW L PCT
Yale113 .786247  .774
Harvard104 .7141712  .586
Penn95 .6431812  .600
Cornell86 .5711513  .536
Columbia59 .3571612  .571
Dartmouth59 .3571116  .407
Princeton59 .357920  .310
Brown311 .214918  .333
2026 Ivy League tournament winner

The 2026 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 2025–26 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. It was held March 14–15, 2026, at Newman Arena on the campus of Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.[1] The winner, Penn, received the Ivy League's automatic bid to the 2026 NCAA Tournament.

The top four teams in the Ivy League regular-season standings qualified for the tournament and were seeded according to their records in conference play, resulting in a Shaughnessy playoff.

Seed School Record Tiebreaker 1 Tiebreaker 2
1 Yale 11–3
2 Harvard 10–4
3 Penn 9–5
4 Cornell 8–6
DNQ Princeton 5–9 1–1 vs. Yale
DNQ Dartmouth 5–9 0–2 vs. Yale 1–1 vs. Harvard
DNQ Columbia 5–9 0–2 vs. Yale 0–2 vs. Harvard
DNQ Brown 3–11

Schedule

Session Game Time Matchup Score Television Attendance
Semifinals – Saturday, March 14
1 1 11:00 a.m. No. 1 Yale vs. No. 4 Cornell 88–76 ESPNU 2,277
2 2:00 p.m. No. 2 Harvard vs. No. 3 Penn 60–62OT ESPNews
Championship – Sunday, March 15
2 3 12:00 p.m. No. 1 Yale vs. No. 3 Penn 84–88OT ESPN2 1,466
Game times in Eastern Time. Rankings denote tournament seeding.[2]

Bracket

Semifinals
Saturday, March 14
ESPNU
ESPNews
Championship
Sunday, March 15
ESPN2
      
1 Yale 88
4 Cornell 76
1 Yale 84
3 Penn 88*
2 Harvard 60
3 Penn 62*

* denotes overtime period

Awards and Honors

See also

References

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