2019 Ivy League women's basketball tournament

The 2019 Ivy League women's basketball tournament was a women's college conference tournament held March 16 and 17, 2019, at the Payne Whitney Gymnasium on the campus of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. Princeton defeated Penn to earn the Ivy League's automatic bid to the 2019 NCAA tournament.[1][2]

2019 Ivy League women's basketball tournament
ClassificationDivision I
Season2018–19
Teams4
SitePayne Whitney Gymnasium
New Haven, Connecticut
ChampionsPrinceton (2nd title)
Winning coachCourtney Banghart (2nd title)
MVPBella Alarie (Princeton)
TelevisionESPNU, ESPN3
← 2018
2018–19 Ivy League women's basketball standings
ConfOverall
TeamW L PCTW L PCT
Penn122 .857246 .800
Princeton *†122 .8572210 .688
Harvard95 .6431712 .586
Yale68 .4291613 .552
Dartmouth68 .4291314 .481
Cornell68 .4291214 .462
Columbia410 .286819 .296
Brown113 .071921 .300
2019 Ivy League Tournament winner
* Tournament #1 seed
As of March 23, 2019
Rankings from AP Poll

Seeds

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Only the top four teams in the 2018–19 Ivy League regular-season standings will participate in the tournament and be seeded according to their records in conference play, resulting in a Shaughnessy playoff.

SeedSchoolOverallConferenceTiebreaker
1Princeton12–220–92–0 vs. Harvard
2Penn12–222–51–1 vs. Harvard
3Harvard9–516–11
4Cornell6–812–133–1 vs. Yale, Dartmouth

Schedule

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SessionGameTime*Matchup#TelevisionAttendance
Semifinals – Saturday, March 16
116:00 PM#1 Princeton vs. #4 CornellESPN3
28:30 PM#2 Penn vs. #3 Harvard
Championship – Sunday, March 17
234:00 PM#1 Princeton vs. #2 PennESPNU

*Game times in Eastern Time. #Rankings denote tournament seeding.

Bracket

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Semifinals
Saturday, March 16
Payne Whitney Gymnasium
Final
Sunday, March 17
Payne Whitney Gymnasium
      
1Princeton68
4Cornell47
1Princeton65
2Penn54
2Penn91
3Harvard62

References

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  1. ^ "2019 Ivy League Men's & Women's Basketball Tournaments" (Press release). Ivy League. Retrieved December 16, 2018.
  2. ^ "Alarie helps Princeton women beat Penn to win Ivy title". USA TODAY. Retrieved March 18, 2019.