Classification Division I Teams 4 | Season 2016–17 | |
Site Palestra
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | ||
The 2017 Ivy League Men's Basketball Tournament is an upcoming college conference tournament to be held March 11–12, 2017 at the Palestra on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.
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It will be the first postseason tournament held by the Ivy League in men's basketball. The champion will earn the conference's automatic bid to the 2017 NCAA Tournament.
Background
The Ivy League was the last NCAA Division I conference not to hold a postseason tournament, instead choosing to award its automatic bids to the NCAA men's and women's tournaments to its regular-season champions. In March 2016, the League announced that they would institute men's and women's conference tournaments beginning with the 2016–17 season. Both tournaments will initially be held at the same site. The conference also reduced by one the number of regular-season games that its members are allowed to schedule.
Seeds
The top four teams in the Ivy League regular-season standings will participate in the tournament and will be seeded according to their records in conference play, resulting in a Shaughnessy playoff. If teams have a tied record, the first tiebreaker is head-to-head record. Second is results against other teams in the league. Third tiebreaker for inclusion into the tournament is the average of the teams' ranking in the NCAA RPI, Sagarin, Ken Pomeroy, and ESPN College Basketball Percentage Index Standings.1
Schedule
*Game times in Eastern Time. #Rankings denote tournament seeding.