2026 Ivy League men's basketball tournament
| 2026 Ivy League men's basketball tournament | |
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| Classification | Division I |
| Season | 2025–26 |
| Teams | 4 |
| Site | Newman Arena Ithaca, New York |
| Television | ESPNU, ESPNews, ESPN2 |
| Conf. | Overall | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Team | W | L | PCT | W | L | PCT | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Yale | 8 | – | 2 | .800 | 20 | – | 4 | .833 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Harvard | 7 | – | 3 | .700 | 14 | – | 10 | .583 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Penn | 6 | – | 4 | .600 | 13 | – | 10 | .565 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Cornell | 5 | – | 5 | .500 | 12 | – | 11 | .522 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Columbia | 4 | – | 6 | .400 | 15 | – | 9 | .625 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dartmouth | 4 | – | 6 | .400 | 10 | – | 13 | .435 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Princeton | 4 | – | 6 | .400 | 8 | – | 17 | .320 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Brown | 2 | – | 8 | .200 | 8 | – | 15 | .348 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| † 2026 Ivy League tournament winner As of February 14, 2026 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The 2026 Ivy League Men's Basketball Tournament, popularly referred to as "Ivy Madness", is the scheduled postseason men's basketball tournament for the Ivy League of the 2025–26 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. It is scheduled for March 14–15, 2026, at the Newman Arena on the campus of Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.[1] The winner will receive the Ivy League's automatic bid to the 2026 NCAA Tournament.
Seeds
The top four teams in the Ivy League regular-season standings will qualify for the tournament and will be 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 | – | ||
| 2 | – | ||
| 3 | – | ||
| 4 | – | ||
| DNQ | – | ||
| DNQ | – | ||
| DNQ | – | ||
| DNQ | – |
Schedule
| Session | Game | Time | Matchup | Score | Television | Attendance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Semifinals – Saturday, March 14 | ||||||
| 1 | 1 | 11:00 a.m. | No. 1 vs. No. 4 | ESPNU | ||
| 2 | 2:00 p.m. | No. 2 vs. No. 3 | ESPNews | |||
| Championship – Sunday, March 15 | ||||||
| 2 | 3 | 12:00 p.m. | Winner Game 1 vs. Winner Game 2 | ESPN2 | ||
| Game times in Eastern Time. Rankings denote tournament seeding.[3] | ||||||
Bracket
| Semifinals Saturday, March 14 ESPNU ESPNews | Championship Sunday, March 15 ESPN2 | ||||||||
| 1 | |||||||||
| 4 | |||||||||
| 2 | |||||||||
| 3 | |||||||||
See also
- 2026 Ivy League women's basketball tournament
References
- ^ "2026 Ivy League Men's & Women's Basketball Tournaments - Ivy League". ivyleague.com. Retrieved January 23, 2026.
- ^ "Tournament Seeding Procedure & Tie-Breakers". ivyleague.com. Retrieved January 23, 2026.
- ^ "TV Coverage".